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

the past. Nonconformity now took over as the leading force, with cultural retrospection becoming all but obsolete (Berman PG). N...

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

inspiration and people tried their hands at columns, pilasters, and laurel wreaths as well as a system of ornamentation that had ...

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 ...

wiring, plumbing, etc...have to be changed out every few decades or so. Space and stuff are the last to s layers in Brands book....

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...

replaced by adobe and stone surface dwellings throughout the region by the end of the first millennium A.D." (Pueblo, 2003). More ...

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...

The influences are cited as being form the musical, with Libeskind seeing that the visual and audible as being inseparable, hence...

and designs as well. Until they had developed concrete most of the architecture was constructed with traditional models that used ...

generator" which "holds in itself the essence of sensation" (Le Corbusier, 1924, p. 8). For Le Corbusier, the idea that the plan "...

artistic and mathematical minds. Or it could indicate that architecture has its share of frauds like every other field of industry...

capacity for developing "strong feelings about a design" (6). This pair of architects burst onto the international scene in 1977...

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 ...

competency and expertise. Thus, the first code of ethics was tentatively drawn up. However, there was very little way to enforce t...

Falling Water House is an exemplification of his own unique style. The Wright home is a functional piece of architecture that i...

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...

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

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

form and function could both by achieved to create a house that was both true to nature and affordable." This was where Wright tru...

with open arms. Said Ray Eames: "Modern architecture -- not a style. A philosophy of life" (The Eames House). From Charle...

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