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located close together (Mintzberg et al, 2003). This may appear to increase immediate competition, but it also has the impact of a...

unique nature of the buildings at the time. Architectural students are taught a great deal about deconstruction, something that ir...

II. What is an Affluent Society? The concept of the affluent society sounds positive. After all, affluence is something good, bu...

Architectural fetishism came of age during the Renaissance. Classified as a magically empowered inanimate object, a fetish may ta...

some homes and buildings seem to be unique. In fact, many artists design buildings as such. When delving back into time, is it fai...

materials, may not work in the Northwest where the weather is far more wet and thus requiring different materials, than in the Sou...

inquiry, which they saw as the "key to success," and believing this they sought to discover the laws governing such things as the ...

before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...

was felt the entire industry had become uncompetitive and inefficient, the lessons are applicable universally. This is a r...

be seen both across the expanse of water and reflected in it (Lauritzen 12). San Marco is constructed so as to catch the light. Th...

designing of building, but in realty it is much broader than this, in addition to the need for creative knowledge and the practica...

a renowned Japanese architect who makes his home in Osaka. The new museum is "dedicated to the relics and techniques of ancient Ja...

"witnessed great political growth during the early years of the Late Classic period under the reigns of long-lived rulers" and the...

In six pages Frank Lloyd Wright and his Prairie architecture style as represented in May House and Coonley House are examined. Si...

In ten pages the ecological architecture described by Van der Ryn in his text is examined. Eight sources are cited in the bibliog...

Greek life was impacted in many ways by its art and architecture (Dickinson, 2008). Two of the most visible of these ways were th...

This 14 page paper considers the way that CPFR may be implemented at a large company such as Saudi Aramco. The paper stars by defi...

the building becomes cumbersome and can collapse. The solutions were varied and brilliant: masons developed a "ribbed vault, in w...

These are the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom time periods. THE OLD KINGDOM STRETCHED BETWEEN 2686 AND 2125 B...

capital of the column has a "swelling, cushion-like echinus, and a block-shaped slab for an abacus" (Witcombe). The architrave (th...

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...

Roman architecture also used the arch extensively, as well as semicircular or oval structures, such as theaters and arenas ("Ancie...

Expressionists were predicting an urban catastrophe even before the First World War, and within the ruins that still existed in th...

The commission here was difficult, as the foundations of the former building and some of its elements had to be incorporated into ...

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...

Daniel Libeskind. Klees sketchbooks and artistry demonstrate the integrate of linear elements, linear qualities and bold graphic ...

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 ...

ERP. ERP is a set of tools, which are often modular units of a software application which bring together the management of differe...

may appear unsuitable to the mix. I contend that Birmingham has no more "ugly" or "monstrous" buildings than the next city, and h...