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Architecture of Information Systems

this paradigm, it is also useful to understand that basic information systems architecture is divided into two key areas: hardware...

The Psychology of Architecture

populations without increasing the crowding of individual dwellings. Another major advancement in residential architecture has b...

Medieval Architecture

This research paper offers a brief discussion of the dominance of the Christian Church in regards to architecture during the the m...

Brunelleschi and Early Renaissance Architecture

This research paper discusses the career of Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446), his buildings and his influence on architecture at t...

The Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA); Impact on CIO's and Agencies

segments to be developed independently at ensuring they are capable of integration. In developing information technology architect...

The Influence of Medieval Christianity on Art of the Time

version is richly colored; Mary here wears a bright red robe as does a man who might be Joseph, who is in the background (Adoratio...

20th Century Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

both sides of the border throughout the Southwest. Here, the boxcar is a solid black shape that fills almost the entire area of th...

Architecture and Affluence

II. What is an Affluent Society? The concept of the affluent society sounds positive. After all, affluence is something good, bu...

Why Deconstructivism Will Never Last

unique nature of the buildings at the time. Architectural students are taught a great deal about deconstruction, something that ir...

Roman and Modern Architecture

Roman architecture also used the arch extensively, as well as semicircular or oval structures, such as theaters and arenas ("Ancie...

1920s’ Berlin, German Expressionism, and the Architecture and Lighting in Orson Welles’ Film The Trial

Expressionists were predicting an urban catastrophe even before the First World War, and within the ruins that still existed in th...

European Cathedral Architecture and Geometry

history, is that of the arch. "An arch, in construction, is a rigid span curving upward between two points of support. It appears ...

Modern Architectural Movement

the past. Nonconformity now took over as the leading force, with cultural retrospection becoming all but obsolete (Berman PG). N...

Bauhaus, Art Nouveau, and Arts and Crafts

As Ruskin stated, all cast from the machine is bad, as work it is dishonest" (The Arts and Crafts Movement in the American Midwest...

New Tokyo Architecture and Pleasure Quarters' Emergence

resides in one of Tokyos older areas - where tourists and locals alike imbibe in up until now would have been considered hedonisti...

Islamic Architecture and Courtyards

different. With new design it is likely that the courtyard is considered completed and not reliant on change. In addition, alth...

An Architectural View of Centre Georges Pompidou

capacity for developing "strong feelings about a design" (6). This pair of architects burst onto the international scene in 1977...

On the Art of Building in Ten Books by Alberti

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...

West and the Architecture of Rome

and designs as well. Until they had developed concrete most of the architecture was constructed with traditional models that used ...

Architecture of Westminster Abbey and Its French Influence

of King Louis IX (1226-1270)(Martindale). Around the decade of 1220-1230, it became clear that medieval engineering expertise had ...

Order and Architecture

a new technocratic order" (Le Corbusier: Kenneth Frampton, 2002). According to one particular author we find that, perhaps, "On...

The Southwest's Architectural History

replaced by adobe and stone surface dwellings throughout the region by the end of the first millennium A.D." (Pueblo, 2003). More ...

Architecture and Modernism

with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...

Failure Caused by Company Successes

companies who were once complex become simple and then fail (Miller, 1993). It is that excessive simplicity that eventually causes...

An Examination of Irish Ornamental Art

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...

Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

of the "longitudinal, three-aisled basilica" (Church of San Spirito) that would come to be the foundation of Western church form. ...

Reviewing Books on Architectural Design and Culture Building

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....

Roman Imagery and the Evolution of Apostolic Succession

Roman architecture influenced by apostolic succession - was limited only as far as ones imagination would go. After all, what a p...

Architecture, Youth Clothing, Miyake Kimono Designs, and Japanese

the Kimono Designs of Issey Miyake Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and studied design in Tokyo before working in Paris...

Architecture Books Critiqued

was "shattered" by the urban scale of Renaissance Rome, which was achieved under the reign of Pope Sixtus V (75). Selecting from...