YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Architecture Books Critiqued
Essays 271 - 300
be found in a variety of locations, ranging from coffee houses, and even campgrounds (Asbrand, 2004). Wi-Fis rely on Ether...
property and outside of that a berm of round river stones. Roundness is the theme that catches the eye on approach to The Roth Hou...
style included repeated shapes and icons such as an automobile profile or the stylized shape that one would see in a gear or a whe...
is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...
segments to be developed independently at ensuring they are capable of integration. In developing information technology architect...
version is richly colored; Mary here wears a bright red robe as does a man who might be Joseph, who is in the background (Adoratio...
unique nature of the buildings at the time. Architectural students are taught a great deal about deconstruction, something that ir...
II. What is an Affluent Society? The concept of the affluent society sounds positive. After all, affluence is something good, bu...
located close together (Mintzberg et al, 2003). This may appear to increase immediate competition, but it also has the impact of a...
a new technocratic order" (Le Corbusier: Kenneth Frampton, 2002). According to one particular author we find that, perhaps, "On...
Roman architecture influenced by apostolic succession - was limited only as far as ones imagination would go. After all, what a p...
the Kimono Designs of Issey Miyake Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and studied design in Tokyo before working in Paris...
light. Our eyes were created to see the forms in light; light and shadow reveal the forms. Cubes, cones, balls, cylinders and pyra...
The influences are cited as being form the musical, with Libeskind seeing that the visual and audible as being inseparable, hence...
of Greek culture to glean hints as to how a woman interacted in this male-dominated world....
of King Louis IX (1226-1270)(Martindale). Around the decade of 1220-1230, it became clear that medieval engineering expertise had ...
of the "longitudinal, three-aisled basilica" (Church of San Spirito) that would come to be the foundation of Western church form. ...
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....
companies who were once complex become simple and then fail (Miller, 1993). It is that excessive simplicity that eventually causes...
inspiration and people tried their hands at columns, pilasters, and laurel wreaths as well as a system of ornamentation that had ...
cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...
building, the dome itself may have drawn its inspiration from the Romans. The statue that stands on the pinnacle is surrou...
of Egypt during the second dynasty, the third dynasty of the Egyptian kings was quite powerful and the second king of that dynasty...
of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...
are opposed by the church. In comparing this time period--the old world system of the early Italian Renaissance--with a new world ...
world of mankind as much as a concern for the hereafter (which was the sole concern of medieval man). This new way of thinking is ...
finished and beautiful look to the landscape. The versatile usefulness of paving stones can be seen in the fact that they can b...
are works of art, and this is not a matter of the difference between good and bad art: in fact, he asserts specifically that most ...
may appear unsuitable to the mix. I contend that Birmingham has no more "ugly" or "monstrous" buildings than the next city, and h...
the attention of the fashion-setting upper class. Free-standing obelisks were constructed around England, the first, which is stil...