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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, ...
In five pages 18th century English architecture is discussed in a consideration of Baroque and Georgian styles with various aspect...
In ten pages this paper discusses the office architecture of the U.S. and Japan in terms of its design similarities. Seven source...
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 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...
of metallurgy was that of Achaean colonization, which brought forth the cultural and linguistic components of Hellenism., which "g...
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 ...
are works of art, and this is not a matter of the difference between good and bad art: in fact, he asserts specifically that most ...
finished and beautiful look to the landscape. The versatile usefulness of paving stones can be seen in the fact that they can b...
of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...
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 ...
inspiration and people tried their hands at columns, pilasters, and laurel wreaths as well as a system of ornamentation that had ...
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...
of the "longitudinal, three-aisled basilica" (Church of San Spirito) that would come to be the foundation of Western church form. ...
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....
building, the dome itself may have drawn its inspiration from the Romans. The statue that stands on the pinnacle is surrou...
their relationship to human development and a greater awareness evolved of the role and the importance of the individual rather th...
down to the first floor. The solid brass chandelier reaches twelve feet across as it hangs amidst the marbleized interior from wa...
independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...
of Europes architectural and artistic achievements were created. Elements of Gothic Architecture Gothic architecture is not known...
influences as well as reflects the society in which it manifests. Here we may see a post-modern attitude. The influence of many ot...
the human condition. That said, a student writing on this subject might construe those two points by the author as rather weak. T...
in manipulating that world. It can also be contended, however, that each new technological development directly impacted the econ...