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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...

American Architectural Differences

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

New Architectural Urbanism of Rob and Leon Krier

that they are reconstructions of a world that never quite existed...but whose beauty...seductiveness, lies precisely in that mixtu...

Overview of Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral Construction

(Hart 1995). It seems that both King Charles and Wren were frustrated with the church and when the final plans were drawn up for...

Exercise in the Sociological Imagination

that I have many troubles, mainly I feel tired of what I am seeing. People coming in here seem to be worse off. They have no ide...

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...

Mike Davis's The Ecology of Fear Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

In five pages this paper discusses the city of Los Angeles and the mismanagement and misunderstanding that have led to its geograp...

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

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

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...

Japanese Architect Studios and a Team Zoo

In ten pages this paper discusses the Nago City Hall and Miyashiron community center in a consideration of a Japanese architectura...

Carlo Scarpa's Brion Tomb

In six pages this paper presents an architectural analysis of Carlo Scarpa's Brion Tomb masterful design. Three sources are cited...

Medici Family and Michelangelo

two years," leaving "because he received a great opportunity to go study sculpture at the sculpture school in the Medici gardens. ...

Dymaxion House by Buckminster Fuller

II. DETAILS Organization of the Dymaxion House interior spaces lends itself to Fullers desire to maintain an apparent relat...

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...

Total Quality Management and Engineering and Architectural Companies

1). The current trend within the fundamental basis of business operations is to establish a sense of empowerment, both fro...

The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills

worlds, the one that exists within the realm of human interaction and the one that is experienced by the individual. Both worlds ...

Regency Interiors and Architecture Restructuring

For example, though we may see a large tapestry in the background, as well as heavy velvet looking curtains of red, these elements...

Evolution in Architecture in the 19th Century

that revered the spiritualism of the Middle Ages. The Gothic approach emphasized the complexity of interior space, while the exte...

Animation in 3D

for a 2D presentation is called cel animation (Doyle, 2001). The third dimension is added through the processes of modeling, text...

Overview of the Gothic Cathedral's Architectural Style

soaring faith. New techniques allowed the cathedral to be taller as man reached higher for contact with God. Inside the building...

Modern Architectural Movement

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

Mondrian, Kobori Enshu and Rietveld Architectural and Spatial Comparisons Found in Rietveld's “Schroder House”, Katsura Palace, and the Work of Mondrian

of space with the tatami module design also using moveable walls and walls which opened to the environment for flexibility in spac...

An Architectural View of Centre Georges Pompidou

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

The Southwest's Architectural History

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

Historical Oveview of Architectural Ethics

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

Reviewing Books on Architectural Design and Culture Building

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....

Greek Classical and Neoclassical Architectural Revivals

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

Daniel Libeskind's Architectural Works The Dramatic and Theatrical Aspects of Daniel Libeskind's Work

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