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Essays 301 - 330
resides in one of Tokyos older areas - where tourists and locals alike imbibe in up until now would have been considered hedonisti...
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...
different. With new design it is likely that the courtyard is considered completed and not reliant on change. In addition, alth...
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...
the attention of the fashion-setting upper class. Free-standing obelisks were constructed around England, the first, which is stil...
a reconstruction of the Acropolis as it appeared in the 5th century BCE During the Classical period of the 5th...
In ten pages this paper examines the ancient Greeks and Romans in terms of their enduring contributions to Western civilization ar...
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 ...
with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...
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 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 ...
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...
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...
It also suggests that people lived with the same lingering questions at the time as now. Some things never change, while other thi...
perhaps the first urban planners, and cities became the hub or "centers of trade and commerce" (Roth, 1993). City dwellers reside...
is characterized by a way of seeing-by the attempt to capture the fleeting effects of light by applying paint in small, quick stro...
the medieval period, Blackpool consisted of a "few coastal farmsteads within Layton-with-Warbreck" (Blackpool Council, 2005) and s...
before was not freer to gain access to. The use of moveable types was a move towards homogeneity. McLuhan states; "the world of v...
before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...
was felt the entire industry had become uncompetitive and inefficient, the lessons are applicable universally. This is a r...