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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 ...
also a renown architect, and it was his influence that first spurred the imagination of his sons (Robert Adam, 2003)....
as dated, as indicated by Robin who states that "The free joyful, light, elegant and unbuildable concept of the fifties became a s...
(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...
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...
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 ...
may appear unsuitable to the mix. I contend that Birmingham has no more "ugly" or "monstrous" buildings than the next city, and h...
different. With new design it is likely that the courtyard is considered completed and not reliant on change. In addition, alth...
resides in one of Tokyos older areas - where tourists and locals alike imbibe in up until now would have been considered hedonisti...
the attention of the fashion-setting upper class. Free-standing obelisks were constructed around England, the first, which is stil...
In eight pages this paper examines the creative imagination of Charles and Ray Eames' architecture and their uses of form, space, ...
In six pages the life and architectural style of Marcel Breuer are examined with a discussion of his Lincoln, Massachusetts home a...
Modern Design Famed architect Phillip Johnson tells students that modernism has debts to past styles, but architecture is changin...
In eight pages Islamic architecture and art are examined in a comparative analysis of these mosaics. Seven sources are cited in t...
In five pages this architecture is analyzed in terms of construction, style, symmetry, materials, craftsmanship, and public percep...
There is a limit to how much can be done in miniaturizing transistors to increase the speed and capacity of a microprocessor chip....
ERP. ERP is a set of tools, which are often modular units of a software application which bring together the management of differe...
soaring faith. New techniques allowed the cathedral to be taller as man reached higher for contact with God. Inside the building...
In twelve pages the ways in which the Chihuahua cathedral's history and architecture represents its community's cultural and spiri...
pervaded Western architecture for more than two millennia. The Greek temple emerged as the archetypal shrine of all time. Unlike ...
river was the lifeblood of Egyptian culture. The peoples congregated, as they did in many cultures adjacent to the river for it w...
In twenty pages this paper analyzes Carlo Scarpa's architecture in terms of structure and the significance of placement. Eight so...
In five pages this papers the differences between these approaches as they manifest themselves in architecture, literature, music,...
of King Louis IX (1226-1270)(Martindale). Around the decade of 1220-1230, it became clear that medieval engineering expertise had ...
The influences are cited as being form the musical, with Libeskind seeing that the visual and audible as being inseparable, hence...
replaced by adobe and stone surface dwellings throughout the region by the end of the first millennium A.D." (Pueblo, 2003). More ...
and designs as well. Until they had developed concrete most of the architecture was constructed with traditional models that used ...
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...