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Architectural Objectives of the Eames House

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

5 'Golden Threads' and Their Implications

and Shared Minds Implications for business are clear. All of these threads weave together in the effective organization to...

Art and Modernism

value but not a supreme one"(Frascina 71, see also Risatti). His belief, counter to others, was that modern art had driven itself ...

Post World War II Modernism and Postmodernism Architecture

and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...

Post 1945 Program Houses and Architecture of Southern California

architecture include a number of architects that could be said to included modernists, post-modernists and deconstructionists such...

Federalist Period Architecture

as well (Lev, 2004). This evident blending of past and present very much expressed the Federal era values of retaining the rich cu...

1956's Roth House

property and outside of that a berm of round river stones. Roundness is the theme that catches the eye on approach to The Roth Hou...

Architecture and Art of Celebration, Florida

be judged according to its truth, but it can only provide a "true opinion" since it must be judged by external standards. It is th...

Architecture and Film Connection

only when the heart is wakened in this picture that buildings are destroyed and the human element is reintroduced. A later film ...

Hera Temple and Early History of Greece

mother and that their buildings were erected, despite their intended purposes, to pay homage to the Mother. He cites in this cases...

Greek Classical and Neoclassical Architectural Revivals

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

Saudi Arabian Architecture

as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, India, Persia and China(Devareaux, 1992). HIJRAH: "The word hijrah means to leav...

How Buildings Mean by Nelson Goodman

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 ...

Failure Caused by Company Successes

companies who were once complex become simple and then fail (Miller, 1993). It is that excessive simplicity that eventually causes...

An Examination of Irish Ornamental Art

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...

Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

of the "longitudinal, three-aisled basilica" (Church of San Spirito) that would come to be the foundation of Western church form. ...

Reviewing Books on Architectural Design and Culture Building

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....

Washington D.C.'s Classical Architecture

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

Nineteenth Century and Greek Revival Architecture

"National Style" got its start - and finally ended during the latter part of the 19th century - in Philadelphia (Pollock, 2002)....

Overview of Gothic Architecture

of Europes architectural and artistic achievements were created. Elements of Gothic Architecture Gothic architecture is not known...

Ideal Museum and Old and New World Systems

are opposed by the church. In comparing this time period--the old world system of the early Italian Renaissance--with a new world ...

Art and Architecture of the Renaissance and Modern Eras

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 ...

Landscape Architecture and Italian Designs for Pavement

finished and beautiful look to the landscape. The versatile usefulness of paving stones can be seen in the fact that they can b...

Postmodernism Defined

of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...

Old, Middle, and New Kingdom Egyptian Architecture

of Egypt during the second dynasty, the third dynasty of the Egyptian kings was quite powerful and the second king of that dynasty...

Chartres Cathedral Architecture Compared with Music of Valkyrie by Richard Wagner

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

European Cathedral Architecture and Geometry

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

Islamic Architecture and Courtyards

different. With new design it is likely that the courtyard is considered completed and not reliant on change. In addition, alth...

The Southwest's Architectural History

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

On the Art of Building in Ten Books by Alberti

to have a grand view of the ocean. Yet, this concept is not new. the idea that location and climate were the utmost concerns emana...