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    Rem Kolhass

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    Extra-Large”. This essay explores how “bigness” in architecture be affected in the modern development of architecture‚ how it changes the formation of a good building and how its performance will affect architecture itself. This book is one of the most influential books in the architecture field‚ beside bigness‚ this book also record most of the projects in Rem Koolhass’s career. Also this book also includes a lot of different innovative plans to architecture‚ and also urban planning. “Bigness” in this

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    Ekistics

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    human settlements" which promoted a scientific method for architectural design and planning. It had an immense impact on many fields of architecture and planning worldwide‚ especially during the sixties. With the theoretical shifts in subsequent decades‚ Ekistics was displaced as obsolete and its aspirations remained unexplored‚ while scientific methods in architecture are often dismissed in their entirety. This thesis explores the epistemological premises of Ekistics through a critical overview of its

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    Inigo Jones

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    construction technology that forever influenced building and architectural style in England. Inigo Jones was one of many archers during the renaissance period‚ but was regarded as the first and one of the best. Jones began his career in design but not architecture. At some point before 1603 a rich patron (possibly the Earl of Pembroke or the Earl of Rutland) sent him to Italy to study drawing after being impressed by the

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    very small fee per year (rumor has it that the fee was 1 kc). Radio Free Europe has moved to a new location out of the center or Prague and the Old Parliament building is now under the ownership of the National Museum Bauhaus architecture is a great style of architecture for those who prefer minimalism as well as function or style. Buildings constructed from the Bauhaus design are always cubic in shape. They feature four flat sides as well as flat roof tops. The colors of the typical Bauhaus building

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    Personal Statement

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    Statement of purpose Architecture is in my opinion not just a demanding science and technology but also a fascinating art. After nearly five years of my undergraduate program as a major of Architecture at Shandong Jianzhu University‚ I became even more determined to pursue my chosen major and corresponding career. Architecture is actually a complicated and comprehensive scientific discipline with a broad range of profound knowledge. China enjoys a long glorious history of architecture‚ but for some reason

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    Post-Modernism

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    Postmodernism‚ focus on style and methods of representation‚ and is often interpreted as a successor to modernism. Similar to Architecture‚ postmodernism influenced all kind of art such as: Art‚ music‚ theatre‚ literature‚ dance and even photography. In the work of Best‚ S. and Kellner‚ D. “Postmodern turn” (1997‚ p.152) they state that postmodern architecture was a particular reaction to the aesthetics and as they describe “Philosophical assumptions” of the International Style. This is because

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    Less Is More

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    ARTISTIC MOVEMENTS TO DEFINE; HOWEVER‚ ITS MUCH FORM CAN BE FOUND IN VISUAL ART‚ LITERATURE AND ARCHITECTURE. THIS CONCEPT ADVOCATES EMBRASING “CONTRADICTION AND COMPLEXITY’’ IN ORDER TO CREATE VALID AND VITAL WORKS. ITS ARGUES ARCHITECTS TO LEAVE THE TENETS OF TRADITIONAL MODERNISM BEHIND IN PURSUIT OF “TRUTH IN ITS TOTALITY’’. THIS MEANS THAT POSTMODERNISM IS A COMPLEX SET OF TRUE NATURE OF ARCHITECTURE AND IT IS MORE REAL THAN OVERLY PLANNED‚ HYPPER-LOGICAL MODERNIST CONSTRUCTIONS. POSTMODERNISM

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    urbanization

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    The Study should include the Anthropometric for the disabled persons. The study should be conducted under the broad heading Barrier Free Environment. CONTENTS UNIT – I (08-weeks) Study of Vernacular settlement with emphasis on contextual architecture‚ socio-economic Characteristics‚ climate‚ geomorphic factors‚ local materials‚ building techniques‚ spatial analysis etc. Design exercise based upon study of above vernacular settlement. UNIT – II (4-weeks) Design of Office complex‚ Guest

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    NETWORKS

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    Essay80 NETWORKS “GIVE ME A GUN AND I WILL MAKE ALL BUILDINGS MOVE”:AN ANT’S VIEW OF ARCHITECTUREBruno Latour‚ Albena YanevaOur building problem is just the opposite of Etienne Jules Marey’s famousinquiry into the physiology of movement. Through the invention of his“photo graphic gun‚” he wanted to arrest the flight of a gull so as to be ableto see in a fixed format every single successive freeze-frame of a contin-uous flow of flight‚ the mechanism of which had eluded all observers until his invention

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    rarara

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    Research ISSN 0973-4562 Volume 9‚ Number 4 (2014) pp. 483-493 © Research India Publications http://www.ripublication.com The Architectural Design Machine (AD_M): Integrating Architectural Knowledge Saleem M. Dahabreh‚ Ph.D Department of Architecture‚ Faculty of Engineering and Technology‚ University of Jordan‚ Amman 11942‚ Jordan Telephone: +96265669224 Fax: +96265669224 Email: saleem.dahabreh@ju.edu.jo Abstract This paper presents the architectural design machine‚ a theoretical framework

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