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and designs as well. Until they had developed concrete most of the architecture was constructed with traditional models that used ...

with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...

capacity for developing "strong feelings about a design" (6). This pair of architects burst onto the international scene in 1977...

history, is that of the arch. "An arch, in construction, is a rigid span curving upward between two points of support. It appears ...

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...

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 ...

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...

cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...

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. ...

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...

a new technocratic order" (Le Corbusier: Kenneth Frampton, 2002). According to one particular author we find that, perhaps, "On...

of Greek culture to glean hints as to how a woman interacted in this male-dominated world....

building, the dome itself may have drawn its inspiration from the Romans. The statue that stands on the pinnacle is surrou...

Roman architecture influenced by apostolic succession - was limited only as far as ones imagination would go. After all, what a p...

the Kimono Designs of Issey Miyake Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and studied design in Tokyo before working in Paris...

was "shattered" by the urban scale of Renaissance Rome, which was achieved under the reign of Pope Sixtus V (75). Selecting from...

the same impressive mosaics. Seindal notes that the villas original owner would have been of the...

there is a definite uniqueness to the design as well, integrating fresh and unusual elements among the most ordinary of materials ...

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...

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" ...