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Toyo Ito (伊東 豊雄, Itō Toyō, born 1 June 1941) is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a "simulated" city, and has been called "one of the world's ...
Site-specific architecture Architecture which is of its time and of its place. It is designed to respond to both its physical context, and the metaphysical context within which it has been conceived and executed Skeiling A straight sloped part of a ceiling, such as on the underside of a pitched roof. [82] Soffit
The architecture was often a mixture of styles in timber cut from local forests and stone hewn from local rocks. Most of the timber has gone, although the earthworks remain. Impressively, massive stone structures have survived for years.
A discipline within linguistics concerned with the meaning of a word independent of its phonetic expression. sematology [222] The science of language as expressed by signs. A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words; semantics. semiology The study of signs. (medicine) The science of the signs or symptoms of disease.
Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings. A wider definition includes all design of the built environment, ... This list may not reflect recent ...
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is a 1977 book on architecture, urban design, and community livability.It was authored by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein of the Center for Environmental Structure of Berkeley, California, with writing credits also to Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel.
The Rizal Shrine in Calamba is an example of bahay na bato.. Báhay na bató (Filipino for "stone house"), also known in Visayan languages as baláy na bató or balay nga bato, and in Spanish language as Casa de Filipina is a type of building originating during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.
Ito cell, a fat-storing cell found in the liver; also called a hepatic stellate cell; Ito-toren, an office building in Amsterdam; Itô calculus; Itô's lemma, used in stochastic calculus; Itoh–Tsujii inversion algorithm, in field theory; in Spanish, diminitives are formed by appending -ito to masculine words; ITO (disambiguation)