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Essays 271 - 300
a renowned Japanese architect who makes his home in Osaka. The new museum is "dedicated to the relics and techniques of ancient Ja...
In "The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in A World Civilization" Marshal Hodgson (1990)...
segments to be developed independently at ensuring they are capable of integration. In developing information technology architect...
version is richly colored; Mary here wears a bright red robe as does a man who might be Joseph, who is in the background (Adoratio...
is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...
unique nature of the buildings at the time. Architectural students are taught a great deal about deconstruction, something that ir...
II. What is an Affluent Society? The concept of the affluent society sounds positive. After all, affluence is something good, bu...
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...
and designs as well. Until they had developed concrete most of the architecture was constructed with traditional models that used ...
capacity for developing "strong feelings about a design" (6). This pair of architects burst onto the international scene in 1977...
with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...
different. With new design it is likely that the courtyard is considered completed and not reliant on change. In addition, alth...
resides in one of Tokyos older areas - where tourists and locals alike imbibe in up until now would have been considered hedonisti...
history, is that of the arch. "An arch, in construction, is a rigid span curving upward between two points of support. It appears ...
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...
The influences are cited as being form the musical, with Libeskind seeing that the visual and audible as being inseparable, hence...
of Greek culture to glean hints as to how a woman interacted in this male-dominated world....
a new technocratic order" (Le Corbusier: Kenneth Frampton, 2002). According to one particular author we find that, perhaps, "On...
of King Louis IX (1226-1270)(Martindale). Around the decade of 1220-1230, it became clear that medieval engineering expertise had ...
Louis XIV wanted to do more than outdo other powers in the creation of this home or palace. He wanted it to...
adequately met at all in HHHs current business process structure. Altering the architecture, performance and infrastructure persp...
the inner circle, much like the royal physicians (Jardine, 2002). His sister married and her husband, Holder, became Christophers...
was "shattered" by the urban scale of Renaissance Rome, which was achieved under the reign of Pope Sixtus V (75). Selecting from...
before was not freer to gain access to. The use of moveable types was a move towards homogeneity. McLuhan states; "the world of v...
the numbers of pilgrims on the roads (Petersen, 2005). These churches were characterized by "thick heavy walls which support sto...