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Towards A New Architecture by Le Corbusier

In five pages this paper discusses the rhetorical aspects of this architectural text and argues that it is the most significant ar...

Le Corbusier's and Venturi's Architecture

In five pages this paper examines these architects and their philosophies in an examination of Harvard University's Carpenter Cent...

Modern Movement Influence Upon Architects and Fashion

In fifteen pages Le Corbusier's modern architecture movement is examined in terms of how it links architecture and fashion in acco...

Order and Architecture

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

Identity in the Architecture of Le Corbusier and Kahn

studied in Paris under August Perret (Matthews "Le Corbusier"). It was during this period that Le Corbusier developed a intense in...

Architecture of Zumthor, Maekawa, and Le Corbusier and Uses of Light and Form

Charles LEplattenier. He was commissioned for his first design at the age of 18 for a faculty member of his school. The next sever...

Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut

faced with whitewashed Gunite (sprayed concrete) and a roof of contrasting beton brut. Formally and symbolically, however, this s...

Design Concepts of Architects Charles Jencks and Le Corbusier

is a machine for living in," he wrote. The machines he admired most were ocean liners, and his architecture spoke of sun and wind ...

Modernist and Postmodernist Architectural Theories of Le Corbusier and Robert Venturi

generator" which "holds in itself the essence of sensation" (Le Corbusier, 1924, p. 8). For Le Corbusier, the idea that the plan "...

Classical Influences on Modern Architecture

In five pages this paper examines the classical influences upon modern architects with such works as La Tourette Monastery by Le C...

Architectural Contributions of Le Corbusier

In eight pages the life of Le Corbusier and his early twentieth century architectural contributions are discussed. There are 5 so...

British Columbia's Modernist Architecture

direction this modern era should take: "While many of the citizens of Victoria cherished and identified with its picturesque archi...

Renaissance Architecture

This research paper describes aspects of Renaissance architecture. Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...

Melville's "Le Samourai" - A Portrait of Existential Values

single, concise action, one cannot help but recall the inherent ambiguity and independence of Camus Mersault, the protagonist of "...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

Images II by Debussy

and II, said that it was rather like staring fixedly at an object for a long period of time, so that the pupils dilate and the pic...

L'attente de Vladimir sur Godot

continuellement interrompu par Estragon. Il ne finit jamais lhistoire. En dautres termes, il doit continuer ? attendre Godot, o? G...

Honestly Appraising Political Opposition in Binka Le Breton's A Land to Die For

Journalist Binka Le Breton's investigation into the assassination of Brazilian priest Josimo Morals Tavares consists of seven page...

Lautreamont, Apollinaire and Black Humor

idea of cooking his shoe, which he proceeds to each with the gusto that would befit a culinary masterpiece. Chaplins mastery of p...

Birth Defects and Vitamin A Overuse

In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...

Postmodern Deconstructionist Architecture

Russian constructivist forms and by Derridean deconstruction" (Ganim 364). Basically, the philosophy behind the concept of decons...

Launching A New Grill

gained in the different areas (Douglas and Wind 1987). When considered in this context there do appear to be arguments in favour o...

Leadership - Goleman as the Basis of New Model

leadership requires more than this, as Peter Drucker states, the leaders need to have followers, to inspire and to achieve results...

Improving Corporate Governance and Supervision in New Zealand

ensuring that the board and the audit committee are independency (Bell Gully, 2010). The code sets out the best practices in a t...

ASSISTED SUICIDE AND ARTIFICIAL CONCEPTION: A CHRISTIAN VIEWPOINT

Outlines Christian viewpoints toward artificial conception and euthanasia/assisted suicide. There are 6 sources listed in the bibl...

KODAK - CASE STUDY QUESTIONS

an emphasis on digital technology. But on the not-so-good side, its not doing a very good job of getting from point A to point B. ...

The Army Today and Homosexuality

leave it to the Obama administration to resolve the long-controversial issue" (Branig, 2009). What this essentially means is that ...

African Americans and Racism

of the African Americans, up until just before the Second World War, the United States was also apparently guilty of trying to eng...

Low Class Workers in America and Elsewhere

level, even working very long hours. They may have benefits, depending on the company, but they may depend on public transportatio...

Roles of Women in Albert Camus' Les Justes and Jean Paul Sartre's Les Mains Sales

he must assassinate Hoederer. Hoederer is a admirable Communist leader whom Hugo likes and respects for his political ideas. Hugo ...