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to a particular interpretation (2002). In some way, modernisms influence never left. Modernism may also be construed as an archi...

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

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

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

previous times and styles. Nor does it need to be seen as an opposition to the past, and as such it is the concept of originality ...

Daniel Libeskind. Klees sketchbooks and artistry demonstrate the integrate of linear elements, linear qualities and bold graphic ...

later the Franks arrived. and "established a strong military presence in what became known as the Spanish Mark, the front line of ...

as dated, as indicated by Robin who states that "The free joyful, light, elegant and unbuildable concept of the fifties became a s...

(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...

also a renown architect, and it was his influence that first spurred the imagination of his sons (Robert Adam, 2003)....

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

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

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

a new technocratic order" (Le Corbusier: Kenneth Frampton, 2002). According to one particular author we find that, perhaps, "On...

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...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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