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Essays 271 - 300
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...
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...
capacity for developing "strong feelings about a design" (6). This pair of architects burst onto the international scene in 1977...
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...
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 ...
different. With new design it is likely that the courtyard is considered completed and not reliant on change. In addition, alth...
with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...
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....
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...
a new technocratic order" (Le Corbusier: Kenneth Frampton, 2002). According to one particular author we find that, perhaps, "On...
of Greek culture to glean hints as to how a woman interacted in this male-dominated world....
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 ...
replaced by adobe and stone surface dwellings throughout the region by the end of the first millennium A.D." (Pueblo, 2003). More ...
In eight pages Islamic architecture and art are examined in a comparative analysis of these mosaics. Seven sources are cited in t...
In five pages this architecture is analyzed in terms of construction, style, symmetry, materials, craftsmanship, and public percep...
Modern Design Famed architect Phillip Johnson tells students that modernism has debts to past styles, but architecture is changin...
In eight pages this paper examines the creative imagination of Charles and Ray Eames' architecture and their uses of form, space, ...
There is a limit to how much can be done in miniaturizing transistors to increase the speed and capacity of a microprocessor chip....
This paper examines how geographical concepts can be applied to the development of landscape architecture in 5 pages. Three sourc...
The original castles prior to reflecting architectural influence lacked much style or finesse; in fact, they were relatively munda...
to be saying that the term, bigger is better has applied for years where buildings were concerned. Whether he takes this to task, ...
as Josiah Conder notes in his classic study of the subject, "the clipping and carving of trees and bushes into shapes such as moun...
In a five page paper the ancient Mayan city of Palenque is examined in terms of its religious and historical influences and how th...
modern. It was a time, as mentioned, of great change, socially and politically. It was a time which followed what was assumed to b...
use of visual elements is what is responsible for keeping his legacy alive. The student will also want to discuss the fact that t...