Essays 481 - 510
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 open arms. Said Ray Eames: "Modern architecture -- not a style. A philosophy of life" (The Eames House). From Charle...
a regular and habitual course and show regular and habitual contrasts-all these use up, so to speak, less consciousness than does ...
in regard to religious art. Religion, of course, is very diverse in India. Hindu is the primary religion (comprising 82.6 percen...
image of the International Style, there was an interest in restoring the status of old architectural styles and combining them wit...
as customers, suppliers and managers. With the ten aspects there are a total of fifty five elements (Dowding, 2001). The third...
gods" (Lansberry, 2005). However, as rational thought and rational perspective began to enter into human intellect "we could no lo...
citys main growth began in the 1930s, when Hoover Dam was built 30 miles away on the Colorado River. Dam construction began in 193...
his predecessor, Constantine, Justinian did not want to be challenged in either his role as the emperor or his right to create his...
Though the tactical approach can produce an application architecture that addresses the companys current needs, the strategic appr...
is characterized by a way of seeing-by the attempt to capture the fleeting effects of light by applying paint in small, quick stro...
the medieval period, Blackpool consisted of a "few coastal farmsteads within Layton-with-Warbreck" (Blackpool Council, 2005) and s...
before was not freer to gain access to. The use of moveable types was a move towards homogeneity. McLuhan states; "the world of v...
perhaps the first urban planners, and cities became the hub or "centers of trade and commerce" (Roth, 1993). City dwellers reside...
It also suggests that people lived with the same lingering questions at the time as now. Some things never change, while other thi...
cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...
of Egypt during the second dynasty, the third dynasty of the Egyptian kings was quite powerful and the second king of that dynasty...
are opposed by the church. In comparing this time period--the old world system of the early Italian Renaissance--with a new world ...
world of mankind as much as a concern for the hereafter (which was the sole concern of medieval man). This new way of thinking is ...
finished and beautiful look to the landscape. The versatile usefulness of paving stones can be seen in the fact that they can b...
are works of art, and this is not a matter of the difference between good and bad art: in fact, he asserts specifically that most ...
of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...
as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, India, Persia and China(Devareaux, 1992). HIJRAH: "The word hijrah means to leav...
of metallurgy was that of Achaean colonization, which brought forth the cultural and linguistic components of Hellenism., which "g...
"National Style" got its start - and finally ended during the latter part of the 19th century - in Philadelphia (Pollock, 2002)....
influences as well as reflects the society in which it manifests. Here we may see a post-modern attitude. The influence of many ot...
was "shattered" by the urban scale of Renaissance Rome, which was achieved under the reign of Pope Sixtus V (75). Selecting from...
Roman architecture influenced by apostolic succession - was limited only as far as ones imagination would go. After all, what a p...
the Kimono Designs of Issey Miyake Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and studied design in Tokyo before working in Paris...
a new technocratic order" (Le Corbusier: Kenneth Frampton, 2002). According to one particular author we find that, perhaps, "On...