In the medieval period of Germany‚ a new form of architecture developed. Today it’s known as Gothic‚ although this was a name given after the fact when the style was considered barbaric. In the modern world it’s recognized for its beauty. Gothic architecture made cathedrals huge‚ open‚ and bright‚ during a period where taller buildings had to be small and dark to support their ceilings. Gothic architecture is partially characterized by clever support structures that allowed the skyline to grow
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Ancient Egyptians had towards the afterlife and how it affected the way the people went about their daily lives‚ in particular I will answer the question‚ “Was preparing for the afterlife the most important aspect of Egyptian society?” This will go into depth about how their lives were drastically affected by the Afterlife and the preparations they underwent and why. The afterlife was considered a heavenly place that your body and soul travelled to you once you had died. The Ancient Egyptians called
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Today I went to the ancient Egyptians museum and read some god’s biograph except for Ra and Hapi. Some of the biographs very really interesting and others were very complicated I decided to search up some history about Ra and Hapi. This what I found out. (It was hard to find facts about gods). Ra was of the first gods to be created. Some belive that Ptah created him but other think he was self-created He lives over 4‚300 years old and created: Bastet‚ Sekmet and Hathor. Ra was the god of the Sun
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Architecture Examples of Different Styles and Dynamics Gothic cathedrals are embraced for their elegance and beauty. Several famous gothic cathedrals are St. Denis Notre Dame Chartres Salisbury Durham Amiens. Gothic cathedrals point to the shifting ideologies of the time. Gothic architecture mirrors an aesthetic sensibility and dynamic mindset. Gothic cathedrals‚ with slight structural frames‚ flying buttresses‚ and pointed arches‚ display a more artistic sensibility and dynamism uncharacteristic
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HP ERSPECTIVES Am I Doing Architecture or Design Work? Roberto Rivera R ecently‚ as part of my work as the worldwide architect profession lead at HewlettPackard‚ I was (once again) engaged in an exchange dealing with the differences between architecture and design work for information systems. Architects obviously do architecture work‚ while technical consultants and engineers handle the detailed design required to accomplish project goals. This seems a reasonably simple definition
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There were many significant characteristics of Ancient Egyptian and Nubian culture. Ancient Egypt was both a governmental and bureaucratic organization. It had a huge bureaucracy‚ along with rulers‚ in order to maintain control of the country’s region. Government and religion were the two most important things in Ancient Egypt. Nubia was both a trading and governmental organization‚ since much of their interests were in the prosperous trade along the Upper Nile‚ and they had strong leaders during
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determining the locations of teaching buildings‚ residence halls and so on. As a landscape architecture student‚ I am interested in this topic. I interviewed professor David Michael Barbarash‚ who is an assistant professor of landscape architecture in Purdue University. Prof. Barbarash earned a bachelor’s of landscape architecture from Virginia Tech and a master of science from the department of landscape architecture at State University of New York Environmental School of Forestry. Before he came to
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Tom Leader Lecture Cause and Effect During the lecture series‚ Tom Leader lectured on works that he has done throughout his career. One of the main points he mentioned was cause and effect in landscape architecture design. During his design process‚ he likes to let the surrounding area and cultures tell him what he can and cannot do. Every landscape is different and he seems to try to use this to his advantage in practice and discipline. One of the cause and effect projects that he talked
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Greek Architecture Thesis;In my point of view‚ Functionality is based on the foundation of Greek architecture ‚ like the architecture style in the some cities such as Ephesus‚ Millet and Assos. Greek architecture is based on the houses called “Megaron”.The Megaron houses‚ which has four corners and an entrance‚ has some pillars around.In fact they are temples and for this reason the people musn’t enter in it.Only they pray out of temple.The outside of it is much more
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don’t you ever listen to me?” In the summer of 2013 I had to make a choice that would overall change my life. I was deciding wether or not I waned to go to the Egyptian Theatre to do their summer youth program. For some odd reason I had a very difficult time deciding wether or not I was actually going to do it. I kept thinking that the Egyptian theatre was out of my league and that if I did it I would just feel left out. I tossed and turned at night thinking of all of the pros and cons of doing their
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