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with open arms. Said Ray Eames: "Modern architecture -- not a style. A philosophy of life" (The Eames House). From Charle...

a regular and habitual course and show regular and habitual contrasts-all these use up, so to speak, less consciousness than does ...

form and function could both by achieved to create a house that was both true to nature and affordable." This was where Wright tru...

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....

inspiration and people tried their hands at columns, pilasters, and laurel wreaths as well as a system of ornamentation that had ...

The influences are cited as being form the musical, with Libeskind seeing that the visual and audible as being inseparable, hence...

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

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

Pennsylvania. Locorotonda Agriculture: Galt (1995) tells us that Locorotonda is a rural village that is part of an unusual, inte...

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the impact of culture on Gothic architecture in a consideration of Paris's Notre Dame innova...

In eighteen pages fetish architecture is examined in terms of uses, time periods, and various techniques. There is also the inclu...

In a paper consisting of eight pages the concept of 'modern' is defined and related to social theory with a consideration of works...

In ten pages this paper refers to Luc Sante's Low Life in a historical consideration of New York City's urban architecture in term...

new generation of designers have stepped away from admiring only the beauty and grandeur of the lakeside city and have begun to re...

with regard to the scholastic nature from when past generations attended; however, what has seen significant modification is that ...

In seven pages this paper discusses how currency crises in the future can be met through management planning development. Eight s...

and had to rely upon trade and barter to exchange goods, services, and currency. Trade was the only means by which poorer classes...

that they were very connected as well. It is also important to note that any works which have survived the ages do not even begin ...

changed dramatically. Huxley writes: "In place of the old pleasures demanding intelligence and personal initiative, we have vast o...

Lakedaimon, a king himself, named his country after himself. The capital of that country he named after his wife. Lacedaemon, of...

plights of war ... as the common people devoted themselves to the cult of their rain gods and peacefully tilled their fields {milp...

In five pages this paper discusses how the ancient civilizations of Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia achieved cultural expansion thr...

Is not (even the core of) the brick structure made of kiln-fired brick, and did not the Seven Sages themselves lay out its plans? ...

deal about the civilization that created it. This paper discusses three antiquities found at the Art Institute in Chicago, and wha...

found seems to be religious in intent, but no one is sure (Swanson, 1998). The civilization reached its height in about 2500 BC an...

readers would be going backward and forward in terms of years. however, it is the concept and theme of civilizations that is prima...

that Diamond discusses are the Anasazi and the Maya. "Anasazi" is the name given to various groups of Native Americans living in t...

was one of "battle and conquest" (Hooker, 1996). These people are the Mycenaeans; they are named after the "best-preserved of thei...

classes of citizens, permitted behaviors within marriage and so on. Ancient Egyptian civilization also demonstrated a soci...

Tigris and Euphrates are very different: the former is "rough and fast flowing" and difficult to navigate while the Euphrates can ...