Assignment No. 2 09 February 2013 History of Architecture II Renaissance Architecture in Italy Geographical Renaissance in Italy is best considered geographically under the three great distinctive cities of activities. Florence‚ Rome and Venice. Florence. One of the chief powers of Italy. A centrally situated city-state. The Florentines notonly exerted considerable influence over the whole of Tuscany but carried Renaissance architecture‚ which originated with them‚ much farther afield
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/ Istanbul | | Architecture as Symbol: Space in Wim Wenders’ Cinema | | | The relation between architecture and cinema began more than a century ago with the production of the very first films. There is architecture in almost every film. Consciously or not‚ architecture takes its position as an effective element in films; architectural space influences what is shot. If it is possible to argue that cinema is under the influence of architecture‚ then it should also be
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effects of this time period can still be widely seen even today. Since Greece was the birth place of democracy and we are a democratic nation‚ many of our government buildings draw inspiration from Greek architecture. The Greeks believed that man is the measure of all and in their art and architecture they constantly tried to achieve perfect balance‚ proportion‚ and unity. The Parthenon was the hugest temple in the Acropolis in Athens. The Acropolis or “high city” is an elevated rock supporting several
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In the 2011 Places Journal article “Landscape Is Our Sex”‚ writer David Heymann questions the legitimacy of landscape based design‚ insisting that such designs do not equate to a building that is sympathetic to the landscape from which it was conceived. Moreover‚ he expresses his view that architects apply the ‘site as source’ rhetoric as a means to deliver a convincing sales pitch. Although Heymann provides some interesting points‚ the article is largely biased and rhetorical. Heymann claims that
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5 Beautiful Examples of Organic Architecture Ads by Google ’India Is’ Video Contest Show Us What India Is in a 5 min Video. Submit & Win Great Prizes! youtube.com “…in an organic architecture‚ that is to say an architecture based upon organic ideals‚ bad design would be unthinkable.” -Frank Lloyd Wright What is Organic Architecture? Frank Lloyd Wright incorporated the term "organic" into his architectural philosophy in about 1908. But he wasn’t thinking about farmer’s markets and pesticide-free
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Encarta Dictionary (2009)‚ defines allocation as an act of giving or earmarking something to or set something aside for a purpose. It defines maintenance as work that is done regularly to keep a machine‚ building‚ or pieces of equipment in good condition and working order. It defines it further as the general condition of a facility with respect to repairs making it unchanged or unimpaired. It defines resources allocation as the act of deciding how resources such as money‚ assets‚ and personnel (labours)
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His buildings were influenced by Le Corbusier. One of Ando’s trademarks became hand detailed reinforced concrete surfaces. Yet his buildings also incorporated styles that relate to Japanese architecture‚ including the views on nature and minimalism. During the 70’s and 80’s he mainly designed residential buildings. One of which included the Koshino House which was built in Japan from
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ARCHITECTURE IN MELBOURNE: THE JOURNEY TO MODERNITY The interwar period 1919- 1939 showed some major evolution in the world of architecture within Australia. The influences such as world war one and great depression triggered the need for a new mindset as a way of demonstrating regeneration and positive growth. One side of this was the journey of modernisation which allowed for new trends and styles to be created that no longer payed such homage to the past and tradition‚ but rather moved forward
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This paper will be discussing the relationship between the performative nature of contemporary culture and new workplace architectural forms. The first half would be exploring and illustrating what is the nature of our contemporary culture now and the second half would be about how it could further link it to the new workplace architectural forms nowadays. In the 21st century‚ while technology is rapidly developed‚ everything become faster as the Internet has accelerated everything‚ and so as our
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Information System Architectures: From Art to Science Peter C. Lockemann Fakultät für Informatik Universität Karlsruhe Postfach 6980 76128 Karlsruhe lockeman@ipd.uka.de Abstract: The presentation claims that architectural design plays a crucial role in system development as a first step in a process that turns a requirements specification into a working software and hardware system. As such‚ architectural design should follow a rigorous methodology – a science – rather than intuition –
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