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Values and Objectives in Architecture

be ones objectives. Consider that the architect of the Taj Mahal was not Arabic, nor shared the same religious beliefs. In this re...

Clothing Materials and Their Usage in Construction and Architecture

texture vaguely reminiscent of cork. It is many times lighter than cement (which workers fully appreciate) and it offers both ther...

Critiquing 'The Life of an Imperial Monument: Hagia Sophia after Byzantium' by Gulru Necipoglu

deal of architectural, cultural and religious renovation and change. Summary & Critique Necipoglus article compares the Hagia Sop...

Analysis of a Print Ad

almost always catches our interest. This paper examines an advertisement and argues that despite its artful composition and undeni...

St. Sernin and Chartres Cathedrals

bell tower is the most notable feature of Saint Sernin and is located directly above the transept crossing. Consisting of five ti...

Roman Cultural Life and Architecture: Analysis and Interpretation

gender bias in the favor of men, who were lords and masters of their wives and children as well as their slaves. All male Roman c...

Michelangelo and Jacopo Sansovino's Relationship

In fact, during his life, Sansovinos architectural designs may have been just as much, perhaps even more, admired than Michelangel...

Rem Koolhaas's 'S,M,L,XL'

This 12 page analysis considers Koolhaus' architectural text. In the bibliography there is 1 additional source listed....

Developments in Architecture

In four pages architectural development is discussed in relation to ancient Rome, Greece, Egypt, Louis Kahn, and also addresses He...

The Construction Design and Integrated Environment of Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater"

of the family venerated and studied like a sacred wood (Christensen 1998 11).i Wrights mother, Anna Lloyd Jones, had watched her f...

Bauhaus and Architectural Design

but remains a symbol of modernism. When consider the term modern, until recently the use of the term modern, and the associated m...

Apollodorus of Damascus

after his twentieth birthday. Here he designed works that still characterize the urban plan of the citys old centre. In the comple...

The Roman Pantheon

of doors many times larger than the people who enter the building. Interestingly, this building has only one doorway (Gardner, 193...

Graphic Design and the Gutenberg Galaxy

before was not freer to gain access to. The use of moveable types was a move towards homogeneity. McLuhan states; "the world of v...

The Use of the Architectural Analogy in Machiavelli and Aquinas' Works

to some extent helps to explain human behavior. One may think of people being made up of emotions, desires, good and evil. These a...

Spanish Interiors an Baroque and Rococo Architecture

In many ways the terms Baroque and Rococo can be interchangeable as "Baroque and late Baroque, or Rococo, are loosely defined term...

Brickwork of Pennsylvania's Palmer Museum of Art

frontelevation2, one can see the powerful structural design of the building. There are strong high archways that are within a pitc...

London's Royal Academy

class, the pursuit of the beautiful, or at least the pleasant and attractive, and correspondingly the ambition to raise the taste ...

Comparative Analysis of the Architecture of Venice, Italy's Piazza San Marco and Boston, Massachusetts' Christian Science Center Complex

In five pages this comparative architectural analysis compares the imagery, style, form, and structure of these two buildings. Th...

Samford Hall's Architectural Aspects

The administration building for Auburn University is discussed in a paper consisting of six pages and examines why it can be consi...

Overview of Early Architecture

In four pages early architectural sites Old Saint Peter's Basilica, the Pantheon, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Am...

Architect of the Vietnam Memorial Maya Lin

something happens within the viewer. Its like reading a book. I purposely had the names etched ragged right on each panel to look...

Architectural Analysis of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

with the names of the more than 58,000 U.S. men and women who were killed or missing in the Vietnam War" (Vietnam Veterans Memoria...

Urban Planning, Architecture, and the Contributions of Rome

track generation after generation stand in great testimony to the true greatness of this civilization. If the nature and worth of ...

Barcelona's Famous Cathedral Structure

was that at about 1046, a new cathedral would be built, something that was initiated by Bishop Guislabert (2002). Again, this is n...

People, Design, and Architecture

need to agree on what approaches have not worked. We also need to accept the fact that development does and will occur, so we can ...

Chartres Cathedral and Toulouse's Saint Sernin

that has always, apparently, been associated with the Virgin Mother. One author notes that "The town of Chartres had been a center...

Architecture of a Hawaiian Home for an Irish Japanese Family

human being and the human beings relationship to both community and structure. Sissons (1998) explains that in many circumstances ...

Architectural Objectives of the Eames House

there is a definite uniqueness to the design as well, integrating fresh and unusual elements among the most ordinary of materials ...

Parthenon of Greek and Roman Influences

In three pages this paper discusses Classical Greece's Parthenon in a consideration of the Greek and Roman architectural influence...