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it impacts architectural development. In particular, this study relates the fact that virtual reality systems have changed the op...

analyzed the chemical composition of the cement through the use of an electron microscope. One of the scientists on the team descr...

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

track generation after generation stand in great testimony to the true greatness of this civilization. If the nature and worth of ...

out in the city and night, look at the stars and sense the quiet and peaceful nature it contains. New York City is also one reple...

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...

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...

was that at about 1046, a new cathedral would be built, something that was initiated by Bishop Guislabert (2002). Again, this is n...

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

need to agree on what approaches have not worked. We also need to accept the fact that development does and will occur, so we can ...

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....

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...