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Essays 271 - 300
inquiry, which they saw as the "key to success," and believing this they sought to discover the laws governing such things as the ...
Architectural fetishism came of age during the Renaissance. Classified as a magically empowered inanimate object, a fetish may ta...
some homes and buildings seem to be unique. In fact, many artists design buildings as such. When delving back into time, is it fai...
In five pages this paper examines the writings and architecture of Sir John Vanbrugh. Three sources are cited in the bibliography...
In fifteen pages this paper examines how Michelangelo represented the Renaissance times in which he lived and that his art and arc...
In five pages this papers the differences between these approaches as they manifest themselves in architecture, literature, music,...
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" ...
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 ...
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...
may appear unsuitable to the mix. I contend that Birmingham has no more "ugly" or "monstrous" buildings than the next city, and h...
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 ...
capacity for developing "strong feelings about a design" (6). This pair of architects burst onto the international scene in 1977...
a new technocratic order" (Le Corbusier: Kenneth Frampton, 2002). According to one particular author we find that, perhaps, "On...
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...
with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...
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...
was "shattered" by the urban scale of Renaissance Rome, which was achieved under the reign of Pope Sixtus V (75). Selecting from...
of King Louis IX (1226-1270)(Martindale). Around the decade of 1220-1230, it became clear that medieval engineering expertise had ...
the Kimono Designs of Issey Miyake Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and studied design in Tokyo before working in Paris...
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...