MOVEMENT DUE DATE: WEEK 9 FARNSWORTH HOUSE Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Location: River Road‚ Plano‚ Illinois‚ USA Client: Dr. Edith Farnsworth Project Year: 1945-1951 I. CHOICE EXPLANATION After a while of researching on the internet‚ I decided to choose Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House to make my model due to many reasons. Firstly‚ I was impressed by the way how the house float on the surrounding‚ which make it become the iconic
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(E) The deserted house Wandering unaccompanied along the lane with sadness and emotion. There was just silence and huge giant trees. Not realising how long it had been‚ I found myself stood in front of a big old house. I unconvincingly stared at it and thought to myself‚ what brought me here. It was quite a big house which was situated on it’s own in the middle of nowhere. Around the house‚ there was a towering strong brick wall which was positioned there like a prime guard to protect the
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THE HOUSE ON THE HILL The mystery of this house dated back to 1945 during the era of the World War 2. A businessman and his petite woman from France occupied this property. The husband was a tall‚ thin and dashing guy. The wife was slender‚ demure and beautiful. Her green eyes glowed in the sun. People say she looked as beautiful as Snow White. No one in all of London looked more beautiful. at the time they had no children so‚ they were quite lonely in the big house. The couple often threw parties
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Chicago are explained very well throughout the readings from the Hull House articles. They give real world insight to what the time was like back then. The Hull House was founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 and was the most famous Settlement House in the United States. The first section that I chose to read was the “Beginnings of Settlement Life In Chicago” and the area of The Experiment in Chicago. Making the Hull House available to those who were not fortunate was a great idea to create
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A Doll House A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen Analysis Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House makes the argument that above all‚ a successful marriage can only be based in trust‚ mutual honesty‚ and equality. Honesty and trust go hand in hand‚ and only when both parties are honest enough to trust each other can a marriage work. The play begins with Torvold criticizing the idea of being in debt when in actuality his wife (Nora) owes a great deal of money that she borrowed to finance a trip to Italy that saved
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An Abandoned House It was a hot‚ summer’s day as I walked on the dirt road with only silence along my side. As I continued on the road I discovered it led to an old abandoned house. I couldn’t help but stop for a few minutes and look at the details of the huge‚ strange shaped house. I noticed that it had been a long time since anybody even took a look at the house. The old house was left to die‚ alone‚ with no one to care. The paint was peeling‚ the windows were broken and the shingles had been
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craved for a better life for her family. A mortgage broker from her church found the family a house in an upscale neighborhood. She thought she had found her dream house. Cynthia Simons says her broker “grossly exaggerated her income and without her knowledge arranged two mortgages... one a loan for her down payment‚ the other an adjustable rate mortgage on the home”. Now‚ Simons still has the house‚ but can no longer keep up with her mortgage payments. In this case the conflict of interest is
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A house on fire One day‚ I was studying at home. Suddenly there was a loud noise. I came out of my house to know what had happened in the neighborhood. What I saw‚ I could not stop my scream. A house in my neighborhood had caught fire; people from the neighboring areas were rushing towards the house. They were pouring buckets of water to extinguish fire. Many people were throwing sands and dust over the fire. A few people were trying to control fire by throwing blankets on it. But the fire was
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A HUANTED HOUUUUUUUSEEE!! Virginia Woolf’s short story ’a haunted house’ is about a house and a ’ghostly couple’ that inhabit it. The short story uses much symbolism and is very short but can be read again and again with new discoveries each time. The first time I read this story I was pretty clueless to what it was all about. I was unsure of who the characters were and the story was just generally confusing and I got the feeling that the ghosts were antagonistic characters. What are they
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An Abandoned House The mansion stood isolated from civilisation but seemed to be inhabited by somebody. But who? nobody really knew but I wanted to find out. Standing in front of the furtive gates and rusted black iron gates‚ I could feel the cold gaze of people walking past‚ they could probably smell my fear. Gently pushing the gates open ‚they let out an ear piercing screech. Walking up the long and cracked windy driveway‚ I could see strange shaped hedges and unusual lawn ornaments placed
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