Essays 91 - 120
II. What is an Affluent Society? The concept of the affluent society sounds positive. After all, affluence is something good, bu...
is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...
Expressionists were predicting an urban catastrophe even before the First World War, and within the ruins that still existed in th...
"witnessed great political growth during the early years of the Late Classic period under the reigns of long-lived rulers" and the...
In six pages Frank Lloyd Wright and his Prairie architecture style as represented in May House and Coonley House are examined. Si...
segments to be developed independently at ensuring they are capable of integration. In developing information technology architect...
version is richly colored; Mary here wears a bright red robe as does a man who might be Joseph, who is in the background (Adoratio...
style included repeated shapes and icons such as an automobile profile or the stylized shape that one would see in a gear or a whe...
of design that was popular in Europe, but particularly in France during the 1700s5. Interior design and ornamentation are aspects ...
resides in one of Tokyos older areas - where tourists and locals alike imbibe in up until now would have been considered hedonisti...
different. With new design it is likely that the courtyard is considered completed and not reliant on change. In addition, alth...
the past. Nonconformity now took over as the leading force, with cultural retrospection becoming all but obsolete (Berman PG). N...
is their "massiveness" as opposed to the much more slender monuments of the Gothic era which followed. An important structural dev...
reason. No one may be able to recall any specific reason, except perhaps that "things" have been done in a specific way for longe...
The commission here was difficult, as the foundations of the former building and some of its elements had to be incorporated into ...
may appear unsuitable to the mix. I contend that Birmingham has no more "ugly" or "monstrous" buildings than the next city, and h...
the attention of the fashion-setting upper class. Free-standing obelisks were constructed around England, the first, which is stil...
as dated, as indicated by Robin who states that "The free joyful, light, elegant and unbuildable concept of the fifties became a s...
(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...
It wasnt until 1914 that Schindler moved to Chicago in order to work for a commercial architecture business (Galinsky Studio, 1998...
value but not a supreme one"(Frascina 71, see also Risatti). His belief, counter to others, was that modern art had driven itself ...
and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...
architecture include a number of architects that could be said to included modernists, post-modernists and deconstructionists such...
there is a definite uniqueness to the design as well, integrating fresh and unusual elements among the most ordinary of materials ...
and Shared Minds Implications for business are clear. All of these threads weave together in the effective organization to...