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Comparison of U.S. and Japan Office Architecture

In ten pages this paper discusses the office architecture of the U.S. and Japan in terms of its design similarities. Seven source...

History and Architecture of Chihuahua Cathedral

In twelve pages the ways in which the Chihuahua cathedral's history and architecture represents its community's cultural and spiri...

The Amsterdam Stock Exchange by H.P. Berlage

In five pages Berlage's architectural marvel the Amsterdam Stock Exchange is considered in terms of its spatial and material maste...

Greece's Golden Age

In six pages this paper examines classical Greece's architecture and art with a discussion of the Acropolis and the sculptures of ...

Artistic Influences of Greek Life

In five pages this paper examines how Greek life particularly in terms of its culture and geography has influenced the region's ar...

Exactness and John Pawson

In twenty five pages the exactness with which John Pawson painstakingly approached architecture is examined. Twenty sources are c...

Orientation and Spatiality in Architecture and Dance

In seventeen pages the time and space continuum that exists in both architecture and dance are compared in terms of positive and n...

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...

Washington D.C.'s Classical Architecture

building, the dome itself may have drawn its inspiration from the Romans. The statue that stands on the pinnacle is surrou...

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...

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...

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...

Order and Architecture

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

Ancient Greek Women and the Effects of Medicine, Law, and Architecture

of Greek culture to glean hints as to how a woman interacted in this male-dominated world....

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....

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. ...

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 ...

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...

Chartres Cathedral Architecture Compared with Music of Valkyrie by Richard Wagner

cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...

Art and Architecture of the Renaissance and Modern Eras

world of mankind as much as a concern for the hereafter (which was the sole concern of medieval man). This new way of thinking is ...

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, ...

Postmodernism Defined

of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...

How Buildings Mean by Nelson Goodman

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 ...

The Life and Work of Architect Marcel Breuer

In six pages the life and architectural style of Marcel Breuer are examined with a discussion of his Lincoln, Massachusetts home a...

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...

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...

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...

"The Asphalt Jungle" and "Citizen Kane" as Classics of Film Noir

before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...

Architecture, Practice And Management

was felt the entire industry had become uncompetitive and inefficient, the lessons are applicable universally. This is a r...