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Buildings and structures by year?

Is there a reason we aren't categorizing buildings and structures by year (year completed, I would think)? This would seem to be a natural fit for Category:Works by year which already includes books, films, paintings, plays and songs. --Dystopos 22:09, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- I would support this suggestion. Currently we have the Timeline of architecture in list form - a category system would at least provide us with a category summary from which we could compile the list. --Mcginnly | Natter 09:15, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- I too noticed that architecture articles oddly don't have actualy "By year" categories. The lists are nice, of course, but categories are usually a good idea too on top of lists.

- Since mass-categorization has become a hobby of mine, I'll see about setting up a category scheme for architecture by year which will mimic the Works by year format. Initial year of completion is the obvious choice (as opposed to years that additions were put on or the project expanded). But those sorts of details can be sorted out by your community. I'll just try and get the basic structure down for you and initially populate the new schema. Dugwiki 22:31, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- - Ok, looking good! I created all the templates necessary and made a chunk of categories by year as a skeleton for the articles. I'll work on populating them tomorrow. To see the set up, go to Category:21st century architecture. Dugwiki 23:13, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    - Dugwiki, I'm elated by your efforts and you're well on your way to earning a well-designed barnstar. I would like to suggest using the phrase "Works of architecture" in lieu of the "architecture" in the headings (e.g. "Architecture completed in 2005". --Dystopos 00:31, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      - Thanks, glad you like it! :) I made the above recommend text change in the templates.Dugwiki 15:12, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
        I'm mighty impressed too. Is there anyway of automatically populating the category?--Mcginnly | Natter 15:19, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
        I'm not sure about programming a bot, but I'm making some nice headway manually. Right now I'm recategorizing all the "Year in architecture" articles under their corresponding by-year category. For example, 2006 in architecture is now categorized at the first page in Category:2006 architecture. By the end of this process, I'll have a category for every by-year list.

So don't panic if you look at Category:Years in architecture and see no articles. The articles are still out there, just moved to their new subcategories. Dugwiki 17:55, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Critical reading and writing

i have a question- in what ways do you as architects use critical reading writing and thinking on the job?? is it important? i'm doing a project and was wondering?? thanks!! 66.32.59.54 21:13, 28 July 2006 (UTC)sarah[reply]