SEARCH RESULTS

deal of architectural, cultural and religious renovation and change. Summary & Critique Necipoglus article compares the Hagia Sop...

the past. Nonconformity now took over as the leading force, with cultural retrospection becoming all but obsolete (Berman PG). N...

below the point where they end. The placement of the walls invite the individual to look up, to take note of the space above him ...

recent years. Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations that it should be local governments responsibility to provide public stru...

work and, in many ways, it was a comprehensive representation of his larger vision regarding light, space, and flow and how those ...

texture vaguely reminiscent of cork. It is many times lighter than cement (which workers fully appreciate) and it offers both ther...

Park. Terraces, when they first arrived on the scene took several design forms often being laid out in straight lines, or in squ...

be ones objectives. Consider that the architect of the Taj Mahal was not Arabic, nor shared the same religious beliefs. In this re...

competency and expertise. Thus, the first code of ethics was tentatively drawn up. However, there was very little way to enforce t...

Falling Water House is an exemplification of his own unique style. The Wright home is a functional piece of architecture that i...

that they are reconstructions of a world that never quite existed...but whose beauty...seductiveness, lies precisely in that mixtu...

(Hart 1995). It seems that both King Charles and Wren were frustrated with the church and when the final plans were drawn up for...

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

generator" which "holds in itself the essence of sensation" (Le Corbusier, 1924, p. 8). For Le Corbusier, the idea that the plan "...

artistic and mathematical minds. Or it could indicate that architecture has its share of frauds like every other field of industry...

the 1970 and wood times were matching internal fashions of long shag pile carpets, flared trousers and kipper ties. Just as the sm...

replaced by adobe and stone surface dwellings throughout the region by the end of the first millennium A.D." (Pueblo, 2003). More ...

generally viewed as a precursor of the Gothic style of church architecture, which began in 1140 with the re-building of St. Denis ...

light. Our eyes were created to see the forms in light; light and shadow reveal the forms. Cubes, cones, balls, cylinders and pyra...

the world, but it is also a way for people to express themselves. Frank Lloyd Wrights Falling Water House is something spectacular...

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

Van Der Laan was a Benedictine monk who lived from 1904-1991. He was born in Holland and both his father and several of his broth...

also something they can enjoy (Architecture Vs. Contemporary Art, 2002)? How can architecture mirror the fast changing cultural pa...

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....

This 12 page analysis considers Koolhaus' architectural text. In the bibliography there is 1 additional source listed....

In fact, during his life, Sansovinos architectural designs may have been just as much, perhaps even more, admired than Michelangel...

In six pages this paper presents an architectural analysis of Carlo Scarpa's Brion Tomb masterful design. Three sources are cited...

two years," leaving "because he received a great opportunity to go study sculpture at the sculpture school in the Medici gardens. ...

II. DETAILS Organization of the Dymaxion House interior spaces lends itself to Fullers desire to maintain an apparent relat...

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