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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...

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...

Art and Architecture of Islam in Great Mosque of Damascus and Dome of the Rock

In eight pages Islamic architecture and art are examined in a comparative analysis of these mosaics. Seven sources are cited in t...

Postsparkassenamt by Otto Wagner

In five pages this architecture is analyzed in terms of construction, style, symmetry, materials, craftsmanship, and public percep...

Design and Comparison Between Modernism and Postmodernism

Modern Design Famed architect Phillip Johnson tells students that modernism has debts to past styles, but architecture is changin...

Architectural Imagination and the Eames House

In eight pages this paper examines the creative imagination of Charles and Ray Eames' architecture and their uses of form, space, ...

Greeks and Washingtonians and the State Capitol

capital of the column has a "swelling, cushion-like echinus, and a block-shaped slab for an abacus" (Witcombe). The architrave (th...

Kingship and Architecture in Ancient Egypt

These are the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom time periods. THE OLD KINGDOM STRETCHED BETWEEN 2686 AND 2125 B...

Operating Systems, Applications, and Software Architecture

In 5 pages this paper examines hardware and operating systems in terms of their relationship with software architecture with its ...

4th Century A.D. Religious and Political Influences Upon the Art and Architecture of Rome

of German and Roman culture just as there had been a blending of Roman cultures with the other cultures which she engaged in warfa...

Ancient Greeks, Romans, and Their Lasting Contributions to Civilization

In ten pages this paper examines the ancient Greeks and Romans in terms of their enduring contributions to Western civilization ar...

Overview of the Greek Acropolis

a reconstruction of the Acropolis as it appeared in the 5th century BCE During the Classical period of the 5th...

Themes in the Gothic

the building becomes cumbersome and can collapse. The solutions were varied and brilliant: masons developed a "ribbed vault, in w...

Orientation and Spatiality in Architecture and Dance

In seventeen pages the time and space continuum that exists in both architecture and dance are compared in terms of positive and n...

Time Travel and the Architecture of Ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt

Greek life was impacted in many ways by its art and architecture (Dickinson, 2008). Two of the most visible of these ways were th...

Implementing Collaborative Planning, Forecasting And Replenishment

This 14 page paper considers the way that CPFR may be implemented at a large company such as Saudi Aramco. The paper stars by defi...

Greece's Golden Age

In six pages this paper examines classical Greece's architecture and art with a discussion of the Acropolis and the sculptures of ...

Artistic Influences of Greek Life

In five pages this paper examines how Greek life particularly in terms of its culture and geography has influenced the region's ar...

Exactness and John Pawson

In twenty five pages the exactness with which John Pawson painstakingly approached architecture is examined. Twenty sources are c...

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...

Egyptian Architecture and Influences of the Environment

river was the lifeblood of Egyptian culture. The peoples congregated, as they did in many cultures adjacent to the river for it w...

Baroque and Enlightenment Period Differences

and reality. It was a completely unique movement which "generated its own standards" and cannot, therefore, "be measured by class...

Carlo Scarpa's Architecture and the Value of Place

In twenty pages this paper analyzes Carlo Scarpa's architecture in terms of structure and the significance of placement. Eight so...

Religious Pilgrimages, Architecture, and Art

the numbers of pilgrims on the roads (Petersen, 2005). These churches were characterized by "thick heavy walls which support sto...

Versailles Palace Architecture

Louis XIV wanted to do more than outdo other powers in the creation of this home or palace. He wanted it to...

Graphic Design and the Gutenberg Galaxy

before was not freer to gain access to. The use of moveable types was a move towards homogeneity. McLuhan states; "the world of v...

Cathedrals of Gothic Architecture

most powerful elements of the style of the gothic cathedrals, as seen in the Arts and Crafts movement, is that which relates to st...

Work Analysis of Home Health Agency's Information Technology Upgrade

adequately met at all in HHHs current business process structure. Altering the architecture, performance and infrastructure persp...

Biography of Sir Christopher Wren

the inner circle, much like the royal physicians (Jardine, 2002). His sister married and her husband, Holder, became Christophers...

Comparative Analysis of the Renaissance and 20th Century

In nine pages this paper contrasts and compares the concepts of science, philosophy, literature, art, architecture, and understand...