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the Kimono Designs of Issey Miyake Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and studied design in Tokyo before working in Paris...

of Greek culture to glean hints as to how a woman interacted in this male-dominated world....

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

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

resides in one of Tokyos older areas - where tourists and locals alike imbibe in up until now would have been considered hedonisti...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

their relationship to human development and a greater awareness evolved of the role and the importance of the individual rather th...

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...

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

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....

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

Roman architecture influenced by apostolic succession - was limited only as far as ones imagination would go. After all, what a p...

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

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

a regular and habitual course and show regular and habitual contrasts-all these use up, so to speak, less consciousness than does ...

in regard to religious art. Religion, of course, is very diverse in India. Hindu is the primary religion (comprising 82.6 percen...

of King Louis IX (1226-1270)(Martindale). Around the decade of 1220-1230, it became clear that medieval engineering expertise had ...