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The commission here was difficult, as the foundations of the former building and some of its elements had to be incorporated into ...
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...
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...
capacity for developing "strong feelings about a design" (6). This pair of architects burst onto the international scene in 1977...
history, is that of the arch. "An arch, in construction, is a rigid span curving upward between two points of support. It appears ...
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....
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...
of the "longitudinal, three-aisled basilica" (Church of San Spirito) that would come to be the foundation of Western church form. ...
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...
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 ...
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 original castles prior to reflecting architectural influence lacked much style or finesse; in fact, they were relatively munda...
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...
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...
the human condition. That said, a student writing on this subject might construe those two points by the author as rather weak. T...
to be saying that the term, bigger is better has applied for years where buildings were concerned. Whether he takes this to task, ...
use of visual elements is what is responsible for keeping his legacy alive. The student will also want to discuss the fact that t...
in manipulating that world. It can also be contended, however, that each new technological development directly impacted the econ...
modern. It was a time, as mentioned, of great change, socially and politically. It was a time which followed what was assumed to b...
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, ...