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Essays 301 - 330
architecture include a number of architects that could be said to included modernists, post-modernists and deconstructionists such...
as well (Lev, 2004). This evident blending of past and present very much expressed the Federal era values of retaining the rich cu...
be found in a variety of locations, ranging from coffee houses, and even campgrounds (Asbrand, 2004). Wi-Fis rely on Ether...
only when the heart is wakened in this picture that buildings are destroyed and the human element is reintroduced. A later film ...
mother and that their buildings were erected, despite their intended purposes, to pay homage to the Mother. He cites in this cases...
value but not a supreme one"(Frascina 71, see also Risatti). His belief, counter to others, was that modern art had driven itself ...
with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...
capacity for developing "strong feelings about a design" (6). This pair of architects burst onto the international scene in 1977...
history, is that of the arch. "An arch, in construction, is a rigid span curving upward between two points of support. It appears ...
resides in one of Tokyos older areas - where tourists and locals alike imbibe in up until now would have been considered hedonisti...
different. With new design it is likely that the courtyard is considered completed and not reliant on change. In addition, alth...
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 commission here was difficult, as the foundations of the former building and some of its elements had to be incorporated into ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...
inspiration and people tried their hands at columns, pilasters, and laurel wreaths as well as a system of ornamentation that had ...
Roman architecture influenced by apostolic succession - was limited only as far as ones imagination would go. After all, what a p...
building, the dome itself may have drawn its inspiration from the Romans. The statue that stands on the pinnacle is surrou...
was "shattered" by the urban scale of Renaissance Rome, which was achieved under the reign of Pope Sixtus V (75). Selecting from...
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...
The influences are cited as being form the musical, with Libeskind seeing that the visual and audible as being inseparable, hence...