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

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

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...

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

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

with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...

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...

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...

The commission here was difficult, as the foundations of the former building and some of its elements had to be incorporated into ...

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

was "shattered" by the urban scale of Renaissance Rome, which was achieved under the reign of Pope Sixtus V (75). Selecting from...

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...

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....

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

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

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

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

influences as well as reflects the society in which it manifests. Here we may see a post-modern attitude. The influence of many ot...

down to the first floor. The solid brass chandelier reaches twelve feet across as it hangs amidst the marbleized interior from wa...

independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...

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

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 ...

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 ...