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Essays 121 - 150
(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...
also a renown architect, and it was his influence that first spurred the imagination of his sons (Robert Adam, 2003)....
later the Franks arrived. and "established a strong military presence in what became known as the Spanish Mark, the front line of ...
the attention of the fashion-setting upper class. Free-standing obelisks were constructed around England, the first, which is stil...
It wasnt until 1914 that Schindler moved to Chicago in order to work for a commercial architecture business (Galinsky Studio, 1998...
to a particular interpretation (2002). In some way, modernisms influence never left. Modernism may also be construed as an archi...
previous times and styles. Nor does it need to be seen as an opposition to the past, and as such it is the concept of originality ...
ERP. ERP is a set of tools, which are often modular units of a software application which bring together the management of differe...
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 same impressive mosaics. Seindal notes that the villas original owner would have been of the...
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...
of King Louis IX (1226-1270)(Martindale). Around the decade of 1220-1230, it became clear that medieval engineering expertise had ...
replaced by adobe and stone surface dwellings throughout the region by the end of the first millennium A.D." (Pueblo, 2003). More ...
to have a grand view of the ocean. Yet, this concept is not new. the idea that location and climate were the utmost concerns emana...
and designs as well. Until they had developed concrete most of the architecture was constructed with traditional models that used ...
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...
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...
use of visual elements is what is responsible for keeping his legacy alive. The student will also want to discuss the fact that t...
in manipulating that world. It can also be contended, however, that each new technological development directly impacted the econ...
modern. It was a time, as mentioned, of great change, socially and politically. It was a time which followed what was assumed to b...
history, is that of the arch. "An arch, in construction, is a rigid span curving upward between two points of support. It appears ...
The commission here was difficult, as the foundations of the former building and some of its elements had to be incorporated into ...
there is a definite uniqueness to the design as well, integrating fresh and unusual elements among the most ordinary of materials ...
and Shared Minds Implications for business are clear. All of these threads weave together in the effective organization to...