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Essays 241 - 270
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...
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...
with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
of design that was popular in Europe, but particularly in France during the 1700s5. Interior design and ornamentation are aspects ...
style included repeated shapes and icons such as an automobile profile or the stylized shape that one would see in a gear or a whe...
as dated, as indicated by Robin who states that "The free joyful, light, elegant and unbuildable concept of the fifties became a s...
(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...
also a renown architect, and it was his influence that first spurred the imagination of his sons (Robert Adam, 2003)....
later the Franks arrived. and "established a strong military presence in what became known as the Spanish Mark, the front line of ...
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. ...
companies who were once complex become simple and then fail (Miller, 1993). It is that excessive simplicity that eventually causes...
inspiration and people tried their hands at columns, pilasters, and laurel wreaths as well as a system of ornamentation that had ...
of Egypt during the second dynasty, the third dynasty of the Egyptian kings was quite powerful and the second king of that dynasty...
cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...
of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...
The influences are cited as being form the musical, with Libeskind seeing that the visual and audible as being inseparable, hence...
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 Kimono Designs of Issey Miyake Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and studied design in Tokyo before working in Paris...