Champeaux (France)
Building: Church
Date: 11th century
Interior view of choir
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champaign, plain
flat - a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah"
flood plain, floodplain - a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding ...
The Champs Elysées is the most famous street in Paris and a principle tourist destination. It is almost all Second Empire.
champain an expanse of open, level countryside. champêtre term in painting for the pastoral style in which nature seems left untouched by art.
Contemporary architect Peter Eisenman champions this theory. If Frank Lloyd Wright would say, "You can always go home", Peter would say, "Oh no you can't". This distinction of absolute to relative distinguishes the two philosophies.
His early publications championed a machine aesthetic and urged the abandonment of traditional cities in favour of life and work in skyscrapers arranged regimentally in vast parks.
Champaign, IL. University of Illinois football stadium, under renovation around 1993. Its official name is "Memorial Stadium," built as a memorial to World War I veterans.
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15. Branford, CT. Public Library, c.1893.
In 1913 French artist Marcel Duchamp made the first of his readymades, in which he elevated everyday objects, such as a bicycle wheel or a bottle rack, to the status of sculpture simply by exhibiting them in a gallery and pronouncing them art.
In Vermont, buildings like the Follett House, overlooking Burlington Bay and Lake Champlain, the State House in Montpelier, or Robert Todd Lincoln's Hildene in Manchester, conjure up these same images.
Ruskin championed the asymmetrical, rough architecture of medieval Europe. Ruskin's work heralded the Gothic Revival movement in Britain and paved the way for the Arts & Crafts movement in Britain and the United States.
The strongest champion of the Gothic Revival in the United States was Richard Upjohn, and English architect who emigrated in 1829.
American architects Alexander Jackson Davis and Andrew Jackson Downing championed Gothic in domestic buildings in the 1830s. Most Gothic Revival homes were constructed between 1840 and 1870 in the Northeast.
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Metals may be decorated using the cloisonné technique whereby the paste is set into small mountings created by metal thread, or using the champlevé technique, where the paste is set into dents made by a punch on the surface of the metal.
The term is also loosely applied to various other raised spaces in secular as well as ecclesiastical buildings, in the latter sometimes in the place of "pulpit," as in that of the refectory of St Martin des Champs at Paris.
Monuments of the sixteenth century contain the same Hindu and Islamic elements combined in a more developed fashion as can be seen in the Jami Masjid of Champaner built in 1550.
 See also: Architecture, House, Church, Roman, Gothic
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