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as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, India, Persia and China(Devareaux, 1992). HIJRAH: "The word hijrah means to leav...

are opposed by the church. In comparing this time period--the old world system of the early Italian Renaissance--with a new world ...

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 ...

modern. It was a time, as mentioned, of great change, socially and politically. It was a time which followed what was assumed to b...

independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...

influences as well as reflects the society in which it manifests. Here we may see a post-modern attitude. The influence of many ot...

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...

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

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

Russian constructivist forms and by Derridean deconstruction" (Ganim 364). Basically, the philosophy behind the concept of decons...

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...

called herself the Goddess (1989). In ancient Egypt it seemed as if dynastic power had passed through females even when the Pharao...

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...

In eight pages this paper examines the creative imagination of Charles and Ray Eames' architecture and their uses of form, space, ...

Modern Design Famed architect Phillip Johnson tells students that modernism has debts to past styles, but architecture is changin...

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

soaring faith. New techniques allowed the cathedral to be taller as man reached higher for contact with God. Inside the building...

In five pages this architecture is analyzed in terms of construction, style, symmetry, materials, craftsmanship, and public percep...

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

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

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

pervaded Western architecture for more than two millennia. The Greek temple emerged as the archetypal shrine of all time. Unlike ...

In 5 pages this paper examines hardware and operating systems in terms of their relationship with software architecture with its ...