Buckminster Fuller - United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983)
R. Buckminster Fuller, Richard Buckminster Fuller, Fuller ...
Buckminster Fuller: Inventions
An extensive collection of resources, illustrations and links, from your Guide to Inventors.
The Genuis of Buckminister Fuller
Buckminster Fuller
Geodesic Inventions
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Minster - Originally the name for any monastic establishment or its church, whether a monastery proper or a house of secular canons, it came to be applied to certain cathedral churches in England and abroad and also other minor churches.
Minster
The vernacular Old English of 'monasterium', usually applied to mother churches manned by secular priests covering a 'parochia' or parish.
Misericord ...
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Calvary Episcopal Church, Williamsville, NY
Norman fireplace: Saturn Club ...
Westminster : Until 1529 the medieval Palace of Westminster was the chief London residence of the monarch as well as the centre for the legal and administrative business of government.
Minster
- originally the church of a monastry, then became used to describe any large church. Best known example, York Minster.
see church design ...
Buckminster Fuller popularized Geodesic domes with his design for the U.S. pavilion at the Montreal World's Fair of 1967. Its structural design and open interior space appeal to the one-earth view of "hippies."
A-Frame
Geodesic Dome ...
Westminster Cathedral - [26]
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine New York - [27]
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Guildford Cathedral - [28]
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral - [29]
Washington National Cathedral - [30] ...
York minster. Church of St Sebald, Nuremberg.
Evreux cathedral.
Ely cathedral. Strassburg ...
Beverley Minster, S transept
(E.E.): The first phase of English Gothic architecture, predominant in the period c.1180-c.1250, and making use of the pointed arch for openings and vaulting.
Abbey, Westminster
The Westminster Abbey is a Gothic church located in Westminster, London. The church has a pointed style of architecture which signifies the Gothic style. ...
All Saints Cathedral
All Saints Cathedral at Albany....
Building: York Minster Abbey
Date: ca. 13th - 15th centuries
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Coincidentally with the building of Westminster went on such works as the retro- choir of Exeter, the nave of Lichfield, and Tintern Abbey, wherein are the first signs of change from Early English to Geometrical.
In England, French Gothic architecture intruded itself only twice, once in the 1170s in the eastern extension of Canterbury Cathedral and again in Henry III's Westminster Abbey (begun 1245), patterned on the general scheme of Reims, ...
Flying buttresses on Westminster Abbey
1. Close-up of a flying buttress from the National Cathedral in Washington D.C.
2. Looking down the line of buttresses at the National Cathedral ...
" "York, Newstead, Westminster, Fountains Abbey, Ripon, Beverly, and Dundee,"works to which the key is lost, with the sentiment which created them ..."
"Ralph W. Emerson ...
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Abbot
The head of a male monastery.
Gothic architecture in England is divided into three styles: Early English (1200-75), for example Salisbury Cathedral; Decorated (1300-75), for example York Minster; and Perpendicular (1400-1575), for example Winchester Cathedral.
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Further Reading
E. Beazley and M. Howerson, Living with the Desert- \orking Buildings of the Iranian Plateau, Warminster 1982.
Some of the many excellent Perpendicular Gothic buildings to see today include King's College Chapel, Cambridge, (1446-1515), Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey (1503-19), and Bath Abbey (1501-39).
It is within this period that the more distinctive features of English Gothic emerge, leaving behind evident transitional links with the Romanesque. Westminster Abbey is an example of construction during this era ...
English Gothic cathedrals, with the dates on which work began, are Canterbury, 1174; Lincoln, 1192; Salisbury, 1220; York Minster, 1261; and Exeter, 1280.
 See also: Architecture, Church, Gothic, Cathedral, Cathedra
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