YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Issues Affecting the Realization of Architecture
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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....
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...
inspiration and people tried their hands at columns, pilasters, and laurel wreaths as well as a system of ornamentation that had ...
replaced by adobe and stone surface dwellings throughout the region by the end of the first millennium A.D." (Pueblo, 2003). More ...
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...
The influences are cited as being form the musical, with Libeskind seeing that the visual and audible as being inseparable, hence...
light. Our eyes were created to see the forms in light; light and shadow reveal the forms. Cubes, cones, balls, cylinders and pyra...
of King Louis IX (1226-1270)(Martindale). Around the decade of 1220-1230, it became clear that medieval engineering expertise had ...
Roman architecture influenced by apostolic succession - was limited only as far as ones imagination would go. After all, what a p...
was "shattered" by the urban scale of Renaissance Rome, which was achieved under the reign of Pope Sixtus V (75). Selecting from...
the Kimono Designs of Issey Miyake Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and studied design in Tokyo before working in Paris...
a new technocratic order" (Le Corbusier: Kenneth Frampton, 2002). According to one particular author we find that, perhaps, "On...
history, is that of the arch. "An arch, in construction, is a rigid span curving upward between two points of support. It appears ...
with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...
and designs as well. Until they had developed concrete most of the architecture was constructed with traditional models that used ...
capacity for developing "strong feelings about a design" (6). This pair of architects burst onto the international scene in 1977...
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...
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 ...
the attention of the fashion-setting upper class. Free-standing obelisks were constructed around England, the first, which is stil...
the human condition. That said, a student writing on this subject might construe those two points by the author as rather weak. T...
Russian constructivist forms and by Derridean deconstruction" (Ganim 364). Basically, the philosophy behind the concept of decons...
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...
their relationship to human development and a greater awareness evolved of the role and the importance of the individual rather th...