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Essays 481 - 510
of Egypt during the second dynasty, the third dynasty of the Egyptian kings was quite powerful and the second king of that dynasty...
their relationship to human development and a greater awareness evolved of the role and the importance of the individual rather th...
independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...
the human condition. That said, a student writing on this subject might construe those two points by the author as rather weak. T...
down to the first floor. The solid brass chandelier reaches twelve feet across as it hangs amidst the marbleized interior from wa...
as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, India, Persia and China(Devareaux, 1992). HIJRAH: "The word hijrah means to leav...
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...
"National Style" got its start - and finally ended during the latter part of the 19th century - in Philadelphia (Pollock, 2002)....
of Europes architectural and artistic achievements were created. Elements of Gothic Architecture Gothic architecture is not known...
modern. It was a time, as mentioned, of great change, socially and politically. It was a time which followed what was assumed to b...
influences as well as reflects the society in which it manifests. Here we may see a post-modern attitude. The influence of many ot...
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...
The commission here was difficult, as the foundations of the former building and some of its elements had to be incorporated into ...
reason. No one may be able to recall any specific reason, except perhaps that "things" have been done in a specific way for longe...
the past. Nonconformity now took over as the leading force, with cultural retrospection becoming all but obsolete (Berman PG). N...
is their "massiveness" as opposed to the much more slender monuments of the Gothic era which followed. An important structural dev...
resides in one of Tokyos older areas - where tourists and locals alike imbibe in up until now would have been considered hedonisti...
history, is that of the arch. "An arch, in construction, is a rigid span curving upward between two points of support. It appears ...
different. With new design it is likely that the courtyard is considered completed and not reliant on change. In addition, alth...
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....
light. Our eyes were created to see the forms in light; light and shadow reveal the forms. Cubes, cones, balls, cylinders and pyra...
of King Louis IX (1226-1270)(Martindale). Around the decade of 1220-1230, it became clear that medieval engineering expertise had ...
the Kimono Designs of Issey Miyake Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and studied design in Tokyo before working in Paris...
Roman architecture influenced by apostolic succession - was limited only as far as ones imagination would go. After all, what a p...
was "shattered" by the urban scale of Renaissance Rome, which was achieved under the reign of Pope Sixtus V (75). Selecting from...
and designs as well. Until they had developed concrete most of the architecture was constructed with traditional models that used ...