Essays 361 - 390
called herself the Goddess (1989). In ancient Egypt it seemed as if dynastic power had passed through females even when the Pharao...
This paper examines how geographical concepts can be applied to the development of landscape architecture in 5 pages. Three sourc...
There is a limit to how much can be done in miniaturizing transistors to increase the speed and capacity of a microprocessor chip....
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...
In twelve pages the ways in which the Chihuahua cathedral's history and architecture represents its community's cultural and spiri...
In eight pages Islamic architecture and art are examined in a comparative analysis of these mosaics. Seven sources are cited in t...
In five pages this architecture is analyzed in terms of construction, style, symmetry, materials, craftsmanship, and public percep...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
finished and beautiful look to the landscape. The versatile usefulness of paving stones can be seen in the fact that they can b...
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 ...
of metallurgy was that of Achaean colonization, which brought forth the cultural and linguistic components of Hellenism., which "g...
"National Style" got its start - and finally ended during the latter part of the 19th century - in Philadelphia (Pollock, 2002)....
independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...
influences as well as reflects the society in which it manifests. Here we may see a post-modern attitude. The influence of many ot...
their relationship to human development and a greater awareness evolved of the role and the importance of the individual rather th...
the human condition. That said, a student writing on this subject might construe those two points by the author as rather weak. T...
down to the first floor. The solid brass chandelier reaches twelve feet across as it hangs amidst the marbleized interior from wa...
Russian constructivist forms and by Derridean deconstruction" (Ganim 364). Basically, the philosophy behind the concept of decons...
point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...
cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...
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...
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...