This comes under the syllabus for an aptitude test for an architecture examination.I would like to know more about the world renowned architects and also about the places and buildings/monuments of architectural importance.
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Well, it depends a lot on the age of those places, and the country they were built in.\nCheck the Pritzker Prize website and you'll finde some of the better architects of all times. You can also read some in the Architectural Record website.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antartica
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try www.architecture.com
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There are like 813 architectural companies in Miami. Best of luck.\nhttp://local.yahoo.com/results;_ylt=Auz3jshB4TFHJ8qzo9bjNd.HNcIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBtbGZ2dXFpBF9zAzk2NjEzNzY3BHNlYwNzZWFyY2g-?stx=architect&csz=miami%2C+fl&fr=
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Here are some resources for golf course architecture:
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Architecture is one of the few subjects that incorporates both the arts and the sciences and as such it's useful to have qualifications in both areas.\n\nThere are no hard and fast rules when applying to universities as they each apply their own set of entry requirements and your choice of art, design and maths would provide you with a good grounding.\n\nWith the advent of computers a lot of the traditional skills of the architect are not so much needed - drawings and designs are created electronically as opposed to sitting at a drawing board for hours on end.\n\nArchitecture also involves a lot of maths and physics.  You have to understand how structures work and be able to determine what will and won't work (and safely).  For example, it might look very nice to have a fancy cantilevered vieweing platform projecting from the side of a building but if it causes the building to collapse then it's not very practical; you'd have to calculate all the forces involved and design your building to accomodate these forces.\n\nThere's an article from The Independent that you may find useful... http://education.independent.co.uk/higher/az_degrees/article26969.ece \n\nGood luck with your A levels and future degree course.
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Try the Simon Wiesenthal Institute - if they don't have it, they'll be able to tell you where to look.
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An architect is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a building's construction. The word "architect" is derived from the Latin architectus and from the Greek arkhitekton. In the broadest sense, an architect is a person who translates the user's needs into the builder's requirements. An architect must thoroughly understand the building and operational codes under which his or her design must conform. That degree of knowledge is necessary so that she or he is not apt to omit any necessary requirements, or produce improper, conflicting, ambiguous, or confusing requirements. He or she must understand the various methods available to the builder for building the user's structure, so that he or she can negotiate with the user to produce a best possible compromise of the results desired within explicit cost and time boundaries.\n\nArchitects are professionals who must frequently make building design and planning decisions that affect the safety and well being of the general public. Architects are required to obtain specialized education and documented work experience to obtain professional licensure, similar to the requirements for other professionals, with requirements for practice varying greatly from place to place (see below).\n\nThe most prestigious award a living architect can receive is the Pritzker Prize, often termed the "Nobel Prize for architecture." Other awards for excellence in architecture are given by national and regional professional associations such as the American Institute of Architects and Royal Institute of British Architects.\n\nAlthough architect technically refers to a licensed professional, the word is frequently used in the broader sense noted above to define someone who brings order to the built or unbuilt environment through the use of rational constructs. For example, "naval architects," "software architects," and graduates of schools of architecture working in architecture firms are often called "architects." However, in most countries unlicensed people working in the construction industry are legally prohibited from referring to themselves as "architects."\nIn the United States, people wishing to become licensed architects are required to have a professional degree from a school accredited by the NAAB and pass a series of exams administered by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), referred to as the Architect Registration Examination (ARE). In addition, such people must have a minimum of 3 years of documented, practical work experience working under a licensed architect before they are eligible to take the ARE. Although the ARE is a national exam, each state has specific requirements and issues their own licenses due to varying environmental conditions in each region. Other states have reciprocity agreements, so licenses may be easily transferred between certain states. In some states with older licensure law (New York and California for example) schooling is technically not required for licensure - 10 years of documented work experience under an accredited architect is sufficient; however, these states will soon upgrade to the NCARB accredidation standards that most states now have which require a professional degree. Virtually all employment channels require formal education. All architects licensed by their respective states have professional status as Registered Architects (RA).\n\nThere are three types of professional degrees in architecture in the United States: the Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Architecture, and Doctor of Architecture degrees, respectively abbreviated as "B.Arch," "M.Arch," and "D.Arch." Non-professional degrees include the Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (BA), Bachelor of Science in Architecture (BS), Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architecture (BFA Arch), and "Bachelor of Environmental Design" (B.Envd). A n
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try wikipedia there is some stuff there.
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Hi there;\n\nI have to hand it to you! You are showing a lot of gumption for taking on an assignment covering an entire continent of nations like that.\nI can list for you some very fine links (safe links) which can assist you in your endeavors. Good luck I hope you do well. :)
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it looks like there are many different shapes, squares, triangles, trapezoids...\n\nhttp://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Sydney_Opera.html\nclick on picture of exterior
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Go to Parliament, London Bridge, Liverpool and Picadilly Square.  Also go to wikipedia and type in United Kingdom and or Great Britain.
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I'd have to say A&M, although I'm biased because I went there. I wasn't an architecture major, but I'm interested in it and I enjoyed taking an architecture class and independent study project there. I had a friend who did arcitecture there who is in grad school at Yale now, so they seem to prepare people well. I don't know much about the other school, although Chicago does have some historic influence in architecture.
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Of course pick something you know about - especially what you care about.\n\nSo ideas:\n\nComputers in today's world\n\nCareers in today's world\n\nEmerging world culture - global community.\n\nSocial Changes in the past 300 years.\n\nPollution and it's effect on people.\n\nWhere is the best place to live.\n\nSolar Energy
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i'm not sure if a floor plan of an existing building would be that easy to obtain. try maybe the city office in your area i'm not sure exactly what department but certainly they have that documents. if that's not possible ask architecture students,if you know someone, they usually have plates/blueprints of some sorts in their portfolio, if your lucky they may have what you're looking for. this could be as good because they follow certain specifications and requirements in their plates the only problem is that these are floor plans of nonexisting structures, there maybe certain errors or problems but it's not like you'll be building the structure or anything, it'll be good enough since you'll just be needing the layout.
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Check out the wikipedia site...
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I'm not so sure you can get the area of each level - I mean, there are quite a few levels.  On public sites, the best you'll get is probably just the gross floor area by category.  Wiki has some floor areas and links to other sites related to 101:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_101\n\nFor more detailed information you'll have to ask the architect, I'm pretty sure.