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Essays 451 - 480
In "The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in A World Civilization" Marshal Hodgson (1990)...
located close together (Mintzberg et al, 2003). This may appear to increase immediate competition, but it also has the impact of a...
unique nature of the buildings at the time. Architectural students are taught a great deal about deconstruction, something that ir...
be seen both across the expanse of water and reflected in it (Lauritzen 12). San Marco is constructed so as to catch the light. Th...
was felt the entire industry had become uncompetitive and inefficient, the lessons are applicable universally. This is a r...
designing of building, but in realty it is much broader than this, in addition to the need for creative knowledge and the practica...
before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...
some homes and buildings seem to be unique. In fact, many artists design buildings as such. When delving back into time, is it fai...
materials, may not work in the Northwest where the weather is far more wet and thus requiring different materials, than in the Sou...
inquiry, which they saw as the "key to success," and believing this they sought to discover the laws governing such things as the ...
The influences are cited as being form the musical, with Libeskind seeing that the visual and audible as being inseparable, hence...
of King Louis IX (1226-1270)(Martindale). Around the decade of 1220-1230, it became clear that medieval engineering expertise had ...
light. Our eyes were created to see the forms in light; light and shadow reveal the forms. Cubes, cones, balls, cylinders and pyra...
a new technocratic order" (Le Corbusier: Kenneth Frampton, 2002). According to one particular author we find that, perhaps, "On...
of Greek culture to glean hints as to how a woman interacted in this male-dominated world....
the Kimono Designs of Issey Miyake Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and studied design in Tokyo before working in Paris...
was "shattered" by the urban scale of Renaissance Rome, which was achieved under the reign of Pope Sixtus V (75). Selecting from...
building, the dome itself may have drawn its inspiration from the Romans. The statue that stands on the pinnacle is surrou...
Roman architecture influenced by apostolic succession - was limited only as far as ones imagination would go. After all, what a p...
of the "longitudinal, three-aisled basilica" (Church of San Spirito) that would come to be the foundation of Western church form. ...
can tell that ornamentation is a large part of this model. The Irish often added spirals and curves. One might look at these as co...
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....
inspiration and people tried their hands at columns, pilasters, and laurel wreaths as well as a system of ornamentation that had ...
companies who were once complex become simple and then fail (Miller, 1993). It is that excessive simplicity that eventually causes...
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 ...
of Egypt during the second dynasty, the third dynasty of the Egyptian kings was quite powerful and the second king of that dynasty...
as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, India, Persia and China(Devareaux, 1992). HIJRAH: "The word hijrah means to leav...
cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...
influences as well as reflects the society in which it manifests. Here we may see a post-modern attitude. The influence of many ot...