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The Architectural Features of Notre Dame and St. Etienne

generally viewed as a precursor of the Gothic style of church architecture, which began in 1140 with the re-building of St. Denis ...

Defining UK Architecture Cultural and Utility Reflection

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

Jewish Museum Berlin and its Architectural Importance

the world, but it is also a way for people to express themselves. Frank Lloyd Wrights Falling Water House is something spectacular...

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 ...

The Life and Work of Architect Marcel Breuer

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

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...

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...

Analysis of a Print Ad

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

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...

Classical Greece's The Parthenon.

construction of the Parthenon and the agora in Athens. Under the watchful eye of the architect Iktinos, these constructions, like ...

Architecture and Use of Natural Light

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 ...

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...

Chicago's Soldier Field Renovations

recent years. Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations that it should be local governments responsibility to provide public stru...

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...

The Amsterdam Stock Exchange by H.P. Berlage

In five pages Berlage's architectural marvel the Amsterdam Stock Exchange is considered in terms of its spatial and material maste...

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 ...

'Urbanization' in the Architecture of Early Rome

city. The system that the early Romans devised for delivering water to where it did not naturally travel on its own has been a ma...

Abstract on Architecture and the Role of Virtual Reality

it impacts architectural development. In particular, this study relates the fact that virtual reality systems have changed the op...

Hagia Sophia or the Church of the Holy Wisdom

analyzed the chemical composition of the cement through the use of an electron microscope. One of the scientists on the team descr...

Ancient Japanese Architecture, an Overview

This research paper offers a brief overview of ancient Japanese architectural history. Three pages in length, three sources are ci...

The Architecture and Political Significance of the Versailles

This paper reviews the architectural and political evolution of the palace. There are two sources in this six page paper. ...

Later Years of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright

In six pages this paper considers the latter stages of Wright's amazing architectural career focusing upon the 1950s. Seven sourc...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Architecture

international fame and when he moved to America in 1937, where he founded and directed the architecture department at the Armour I...

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 ...

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...

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...

The Roman Pantheon

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

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...