YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Architecture and Political Significance of the Versailles
Essays 211 - 240
ERP. ERP is a set of tools, which are often modular units of a software application which bring together the management of differe...
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...
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)....
later the Franks arrived. and "established a strong military presence in what became known as the Spanish Mark, the front line of ...
capacity for developing "strong feelings about a design" (6). This pair of architects burst onto the international scene in 1977...
companies who were once complex become simple and then fail (Miller, 1993). It is that excessive simplicity that eventually causes...
history, is that of the arch. "An arch, in construction, is a rigid span curving upward between two points of support. It appears ...
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 ...
with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...
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...
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...
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...
of King Louis IX (1226-1270)(Martindale). Around the decade of 1220-1230, it became clear that medieval engineering expertise had ...
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...
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...
value but not a supreme one"(Frascina 71, see also Risatti). His belief, counter to others, was that modern art had driven itself ...
and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...
architecture include a number of architects that could be said to included modernists, post-modernists and deconstructionists such...
to a particular interpretation (2002). In some way, modernisms influence never left. Modernism may also be construed as an archi...