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designing of building, but in realty it is much broader than this, in addition to the need for creative knowledge and the practica...
as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, India, Persia and China(Devareaux, 1992). HIJRAH: "The word hijrah means to leav...
finished and beautiful look to the landscape. The versatile usefulness of paving stones can be seen in the fact that they can b...
are works of art, and this is not a matter of the difference between good and bad art: in fact, he asserts specifically that most ...
of Europes architectural and artistic achievements were created. Elements of Gothic Architecture Gothic architecture is not known...
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 ...
cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...
of Egypt during the second dynasty, the third dynasty of the Egyptian kings was quite powerful and the second king of that dynasty...
of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...
independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...
inspiration and people tried their hands at columns, pilasters, and laurel wreaths as well as a system of ornamentation that had ...
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...
their relationship to human development and a greater awareness evolved of the role and the importance of the individual rather th...
the human condition. That said, a student writing on this subject might construe those two points by the author as rather weak. T...
influences as well as reflects the society in which it manifests. Here we may see a post-modern attitude. The influence of many ot...
"National Style" got its start - and finally ended during the latter part of the 19th century - in Philadelphia (Pollock, 2002)....
point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...
down to the first floor. The solid brass chandelier reaches twelve feet across as it hangs amidst the marbleized interior from wa...
In five pages 18th century English architecture is discussed in a consideration of Baroque and Georgian styles with various aspect...
The original castles prior to reflecting architectural influence lacked much style or finesse; in fact, they were relatively munda...
to be saying that the term, bigger is better has applied for years where buildings were concerned. Whether he takes this to task, ...
In a five page paper the ancient Mayan city of Palenque is examined in terms of its religious and historical influences and how th...
as Josiah Conder notes in his classic study of the subject, "the clipping and carving of trees and bushes into shapes such as moun...