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In six pages the life and architectural style of Marcel Breuer are examined with a discussion of his Lincoln, Massachusetts home a...

the Kimono Designs of Issey Miyake Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and studied design in Tokyo before working in Paris...

inspiration and people tried their hands at columns, pilasters, and laurel wreaths as well as a system of ornamentation that had ...

companies who were once complex become simple and then fail (Miller, 1993). It is that excessive simplicity that eventually causes...

can tell that ornamentation is a large part of this model. The Irish often added spirals and curves. One might look at these as co...

of the "longitudinal, three-aisled basilica" (Church of San Spirito) that would come to be the foundation of Western church form. ...

wiring, plumbing, etc...have to be changed out every few decades or so. Space and stuff are the last to s layers in Brands book....

was "shattered" by the urban scale of Renaissance Rome, which was achieved under the reign of Pope Sixtus V (75). Selecting from...

a new technocratic order" (Le Corbusier: Kenneth Frampton, 2002). According to one particular author we find that, perhaps, "On...

of Greek culture to glean hints as to how a woman interacted in this male-dominated world....

light. Our eyes were created to see the forms in light; light and shadow reveal the forms. Cubes, cones, balls, cylinders and pyra...

The influences are cited as being form the musical, with Libeskind seeing that the visual and audible as being inseparable, hence...

replaced by adobe and stone surface dwellings throughout the region by the end of the first millennium A.D." (Pueblo, 2003). More ...

to have a grand view of the ocean. Yet, this concept is not new. the idea that location and climate were the utmost concerns emana...

with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...

capacity for developing "strong feelings about a design" (6). This pair of architects burst onto the international scene in 1977...

is their "massiveness" as opposed to the much more slender monuments of the Gothic era which followed. An important structural dev...

different. With new design it is likely that the courtyard is considered completed and not reliant on change. In addition, alth...

resides in one of Tokyos older areas - where tourists and locals alike imbibe in up until now would have been considered hedonisti...

history, is that of the arch. "An arch, in construction, is a rigid span curving upward between two points of support. It appears ...

The commission here was difficult, as the foundations of the former building and some of its elements had to be incorporated into ...

of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...

may appear unsuitable to the mix. I contend that Birmingham has no more "ugly" or "monstrous" buildings than the next city, and h...

(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...

also a renown architect, and it was his influence that first spurred the imagination of his sons (Robert Adam, 2003)....

later the Franks arrived. and "established a strong military presence in what became known as the Spanish Mark, the front line of ...

Daniel Libeskind. Klees sketchbooks and artistry demonstrate the integrate of linear elements, linear qualities and bold graphic ...

previous times and styles. Nor does it need to be seen as an opposition to the past, and as such it is the concept of originality ...

ERP. ERP is a set of tools, which are often modular units of a software application which bring together the management of differe...

with open arms. Said Ray Eames: "Modern architecture -- not a style. A philosophy of life" (The Eames House). From Charle...