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Essays 481 - 510
later the Franks arrived. and "established a strong military presence in what became known as the Spanish Mark, the front line of ...
the past. Nonconformity now took over as the leading force, with cultural retrospection becoming all but obsolete (Berman PG). N...
As Ruskin stated, all cast from the machine is bad, as work it is dishonest" (The Arts and Crafts Movement in the American Midwest...
reason. No one may be able to recall any specific reason, except perhaps that "things" have been done in a specific way for longe...
may appear unsuitable to the mix. I contend that Birmingham has no more "ugly" or "monstrous" buildings than the next city, and h...
resides in one of Tokyos older areas - where tourists and locals alike imbibe in up until now would have been considered hedonisti...
different. With new design it is likely that the courtyard is considered completed and not reliant on change. In addition, alth...
history, is that of the arch. "An arch, in construction, is a rigid span curving upward between two points of support. It appears ...
capacity for developing "strong feelings about a design" (6). This pair of architects burst onto the international scene in 1977...
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 ...
a new technocratic order" (Le Corbusier: Kenneth Frampton, 2002). According to one particular author we find that, perhaps, "On...
replaced by adobe and stone surface dwellings throughout the region by the end of the first millennium A.D." (Pueblo, 2003). More ...
with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...
of King Louis IX (1226-1270)(Martindale). Around the decade of 1220-1230, it became clear that medieval engineering expertise had ...
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...
influences as well as reflects the society in which it manifests. Here we may see a post-modern attitude. The influence of many ot...
of Europes architectural and artistic achievements were created. Elements of Gothic Architecture Gothic architecture is not known...
of metallurgy was that of Achaean colonization, which brought forth the cultural and linguistic components of Hellenism., which "g...
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...
of Egypt during the second dynasty, the third dynasty of the Egyptian kings was quite powerful and the second king of that dynasty...
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 ...
cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...
companies who were once complex become simple and then fail (Miller, 1993). It is that excessive simplicity that eventually causes...
Roman architecture influenced by apostolic succession - was limited only as far as ones imagination would go. After all, what a p...
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....