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Essays 301 - 330
mother and that their buildings were erected, despite their intended purposes, to pay homage to the Mother. He cites in this cases...
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...
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...
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 ...
later the Franks arrived. and "established a strong military presence in what became known as the Spanish Mark, the front line of ...
history, is that of the arch. "An arch, in construction, is a rigid span curving upward between two points of support. It appears ...
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)....
Daniel Libeskind. Klees sketchbooks and artistry demonstrate the integrate of linear elements, linear qualities and bold graphic ...
to a particular interpretation (2002). In some way, modernisms influence never left. Modernism may also be construed as an archi...
ERP. ERP is a set of tools, which are often modular units of a software application which bring together the management of differe...
previous times and styles. Nor does it need to be seen as an opposition to the past, and as such it is the concept of originality ...
light. Our eyes were created to see the forms in light; light and shadow reveal the forms. Cubes, cones, balls, cylinders and pyra...
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 ...
with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...
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...
and designs as well. Until they had developed concrete most of the architecture was constructed with traditional models that used ...
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...
companies who were once complex become simple and then fail (Miller, 1993). It is that excessive simplicity that eventually causes...
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...
inspiration and people tried their hands at columns, pilasters, and laurel wreaths as well as a system of ornamentation that had ...
the Kimono Designs of Issey Miyake Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and studied design in Tokyo before working in Paris...