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Alvar Aalto's Villa Mairea

use of visual elements is what is responsible for keeping his legacy alive. The student will also want to discuss the fact that t...

Great Britain's Inter War Architecture from 1919 to 1939

modern. It was a time, as mentioned, of great change, socially and politically. It was a time which followed what was assumed to b...

Ancient Greek Economics

in manipulating that world. It can also be contended, however, that each new technological development directly impacted the econ...

Postmodern Deconstructionist Architecture

Russian constructivist forms and by Derridean deconstruction" (Ganim 364). Basically, the philosophy behind the concept of decons...

Art and Religion of Ancient Egypt

point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...

Architectural Imagination and the Eames House

In eight pages this paper examines the creative imagination of Charles and Ray Eames' architecture and their uses of form, space, ...

Design and Comparison Between Modernism and Postmodernism

Modern Design Famed architect Phillip Johnson tells students that modernism has debts to past styles, but architecture is changin...

Postsparkassenamt by Otto Wagner

In five pages this architecture is analyzed in terms of construction, style, symmetry, materials, craftsmanship, and public percep...

ISA, RISC and Original

There is a limit to how much can be done in miniaturizing transistors to increase the speed and capacity of a microprocessor chip....

Geographical Concepts and Landscape Architecture

This paper examines how geographical concepts can be applied to the development of landscape architecture in 5 pages. Three sourc...

Architecture of England from 1700 to 1800

In five pages 18th century English architecture is discussed in a consideration of Baroque and Georgian styles with various aspect...

Ancient World and Art

called herself the Goddess (1989). In ancient Egypt it seemed as if dynastic power had passed through females even when the Pharao...

Architecture of Early Greece and the Rational Perspective

gods" (Lansberry, 2005). However, as rational thought and rational perspective began to enter into human intellect "we could no lo...

DEF Corporation Application Architecture

Though the tactical approach can produce an application architecture that addresses the companys current needs, the strategic appr...

Art Aspects of 3 Impressionist Works

is characterized by a way of seeing-by the attempt to capture the fleeting effects of light by applying paint in small, quick stro...

Blackpool's Architecture, Land Use, Industry, and Growth

the medieval period, Blackpool consisted of a "few coastal farmsteads within Layton-with-Warbreck" (Blackpool Council, 2005) and s...

Las Vegas Architecture

citys main growth began in the 1930s, when Hoover Dam was built 30 miles away on the Colorado River. Dam construction began in 193...

Propaganda and Art

his predecessor, Constantine, Justinian did not want to be challenged in either his role as the emperor or his right to create his...

Architecture of the Holocaust Museum and the AT&T Headquarters

image of the International Style, there was an interest in restoring the status of old architectural styles and combining them wit...

Art and Architecture of Islam in Great Mosque of Damascus and Dome of the Rock

In eight pages Islamic architecture and art are examined in a comparative analysis of these mosaics. Seven sources are cited in t...

Graphic Design and the Gutenberg Galaxy

before was not freer to gain access to. The use of moveable types was a move towards homogeneity. McLuhan states; "the world of v...

Overview of the Gothic Cathedral's Architectural Style

soaring faith. New techniques allowed the cathedral to be taller as man reached higher for contact with God. Inside the building...

Life in the Roman Empire

It also suggests that people lived with the same lingering questions at the time as now. Some things never change, while other thi...

Information Overview on the Roman Contributions

perhaps the first urban planners, and cities became the hub or "centers of trade and commerce" (Roth, 1993). City dwellers reside...

Greeks and Washingtonians and the State Capitol

capital of the column has a "swelling, cushion-like echinus, and a block-shaped slab for an abacus" (Witcombe). The architrave (th...

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....

Themes in the Gothic

the building becomes cumbersome and can collapse. The solutions were varied and brilliant: masons developed a "ribbed vault, in w...

Case Study: Accenture

document. Accenture must decide how to develop an IT structure that meets its needs. There are several alternative approaches and ...