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Essays 211 - 240
In six pages this paper considers the latter stages of Wright's amazing architectural career focusing upon the 1950s. Seven sourc...
international fame and when he moved to America in 1937, where he founded and directed the architecture department at the Armour I...
In one page this essay examines Stonehenge in terms of its architectural construction. One source is cited in the bibliography....
In six pages Fallingwater's architectural structure and design are discussed. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....
before was not freer to gain access to. The use of moveable types was a move towards homogeneity. McLuhan states; "the world of v...
out in the city and night, look at the stars and sense the quiet and peaceful nature it contains. New York City is also one reple...
below the point where they end. The placement of the walls invite the individual to look up, to take note of the space above him ...
recent years. Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations that it should be local governments responsibility to provide public stru...
it impacts architectural development. In particular, this study relates the fact that virtual reality systems have changed the op...
analyzed the chemical composition of the cement through the use of an electron microscope. One of the scientists on the team descr...
was that at about 1046, a new cathedral would be built, something that was initiated by Bishop Guislabert (2002). Again, this is n...
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 ...
Van Der Laan was a Benedictine monk who lived from 1904-1991. He was born in Holland and both his father and several of his broth...
also something they can enjoy (Architecture Vs. Contemporary Art, 2002)? How can architecture mirror the fast changing cultural pa...
generally viewed as a precursor of the Gothic style of church architecture, which began in 1140 with the re-building of St. Denis ...
light. Our eyes were created to see the forms in light; light and shadow reveal the forms. Cubes, cones, balls, cylinders and pyra...
the world, but it is also a way for people to express themselves. Frank Lloyd Wrights Falling Water House is something spectacular...
and designs as well. Until they had developed concrete most of the architecture was constructed with traditional models that used ...
artistic and mathematical minds. Or it could indicate that architecture has its share of frauds like every other field of industry...
the 1970 and wood times were matching internal fashions of long shag pile carpets, flared trousers and kipper ties. Just as the sm...
Park. Terraces, when they first arrived on the scene took several design forms often being laid out in straight lines, or in squ...
work and, in many ways, it was a comprehensive representation of his larger vision regarding light, space, and flow and how those ...
that they are reconstructions of a world that never quite existed...but whose beauty...seductiveness, lies precisely in that mixtu...
(Hart 1995). It seems that both King Charles and Wren were frustrated with the church and when the final plans were drawn up for...
be ones objectives. Consider that the architect of the Taj Mahal was not Arabic, nor shared the same religious beliefs. In this re...
texture vaguely reminiscent of cork. It is many times lighter than cement (which workers fully appreciate) and it offers both ther...
In three pages this paper discusses Classical Greece's Parthenon in a consideration of the Greek and Roman architectural influence...
In five pages Berlage's architectural marvel the Amsterdam Stock Exchange is considered in terms of its spatial and material maste...
after his twentieth birthday. Here he designed works that still characterize the urban plan of the citys old centre. In the comple...
but remains a symbol of modernism. When consider the term modern, until recently the use of the term modern, and the associated m...