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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....

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...

Greek Classical and Neoclassical Architectural Revivals

inspiration and people tried their hands at columns, pilasters, and laurel wreaths as well as a system of ornamentation that had ...

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 ...

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...

Daniel Libeskind's Architectural Works The Dramatic and Theatrical Aspects of Daniel Libeskind's Work

The influences are cited as being form the musical, with Libeskind seeing that the visual and audible as being inseparable, hence...

Defining UK Architecture Cultural and Utility Reflection

light. Our eyes were created to see the forms in light; light and shadow reveal the forms. Cubes, cones, balls, cylinders and pyra...

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 ...

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 Books Critiqued

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

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...

Order and Architecture

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

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Modern Architectural Movement

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

Art and Architecture of the Gothic and Romanesque Periods

is their "massiveness" as opposed to the much more slender monuments of the Gothic era which followed. An important structural dev...

Progress and Resistance to It

reason. No one may be able to recall any specific reason, except perhaps that "things" have been done in a specific way for longe...

Post 1750 Classical Architecture

The commission here was difficult, as the foundations of the former building and some of its elements had to be incorporated into ...

Egyptian Architecture and Art and Their Modern Art Influence

the attention of the fashion-setting upper class. Free-standing obelisks were constructed around England, the first, which is stil...

Morality and Architecture by Watkin

the human condition. That said, a student writing on this subject might construe those two points by the author as rather weak. T...

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...

The Architecture of the Arkansas State Capitol Building in Little Rock

down to the first floor. The solid brass chandelier reaches twelve feet across as it hangs amidst the marbleized interior from wa...

Early Renaissance Literature, Architecture, Art, and Theology Integration

their relationship to human development and a greater awareness evolved of the role and the importance of the individual rather th...