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Essays 211 - 240
resides in one of Tokyos older areas - where tourists and locals alike imbibe in up until now would have been considered hedonisti...
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...
companies who were once complex become simple and then fail (Miller, 1993). It is that excessive simplicity that eventually causes...
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....
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...
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...
of Greek culture to glean hints as to how a woman interacted in this male-dominated world....
a new technocratic order" (Le Corbusier: Kenneth Frampton, 2002). According to one particular author we find that, perhaps, "On...
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 ...
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...
with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...
history, is that of the arch. "An arch, in construction, is a rigid span curving upward between two points of support. It appears ...
before was not freer to gain access to. The use of moveable types was a move towards homogeneity. McLuhan states; "the world of v...
It also suggests that people lived with the same lingering questions at the time as now. Some things never change, while other thi...
is characterized by a way of seeing-by the attempt to capture the fleeting effects of light by applying paint in small, quick stro...
perhaps the first urban planners, and cities became the hub or "centers of trade and commerce" (Roth, 1993). City dwellers reside...
Louis XIV wanted to do more than outdo other powers in the creation of this home or palace. He wanted it to...
the numbers of pilgrims on the roads (Petersen, 2005). These churches were characterized by "thick heavy walls which support sto...
most powerful elements of the style of the gothic cathedrals, as seen in the Arts and Crafts movement, is that which relates to st...
adequately met at all in HHHs current business process structure. Altering the architecture, performance and infrastructure persp...
the inner circle, much like the royal physicians (Jardine, 2002). His sister married and her husband, Holder, became Christophers...