PAPER British Architecture Anita PURKINS 2012-2013 Table of contents I) Most Famous English Buildings and their history‚ how are they protected? a) Buckingham Palace b) Palace of Westminster c) Windsor Castle d) Big Ben e) Tower of London II) Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England a) English Heritage b) How it is run and missions c) Funding d) Membership III) Modern architecture in England a) International Architecture b) Brutalist architecture c) High-Tech
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Utopia society‚ a society that is perfect in every way. The city of Omelas is described as this fairy tale and magical place. The narrator gives details of the city that has no organized church‚ they do not engage in war‚ no guilt and they feel joy through each other’s energy. Then the narrator turns it on the reader to add anything to his or her own fantasy world‚ so that the reader is able to make a connection to this magical world she is describing. Le Guin‚ the author‚ makes a suggestion that
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Blake’s Utopian Ideas The utopian desire of these poems is experience and what experience is. The poem I will be referring to is The Human Abstract. I firmly believe that experience is something you gain‚ and something you never lose. Experience‚ to me‚ means one that has been through something. It gives you knowledge about that particular event. In the poem The Human Abstract‚ Blake states “Pity would be no more‚ if we did not make people poor” (Lines 1-2). Which says to me‚ that in a utopian society
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sustainable living. Gehry Residence stands in a dense residential area. This significant environment establishes a standard dwelling for Gehry’s family lived in Gehry Residence. Located in the northeast of Santa Monica‚ Gehry Residence‚ is a unique architecture which contravenes the local house’s style. The house is in the corner of two streets which go through south- north and east- west‚ meanwhile‚ it became the representation of deconstructivism and balanced American Populism into European mainstream
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mare culturale urbano Title / Subtitle Premise (premessa) An urban project means taking the geography of a given city‚ with its demands and suggestions‚ as a starting point and introducing‚ with the architecture‚ some elements of the language to give form to the site. (Ignasi de Solà-Morales) Presupposition (presupposto) Post-industrial cities have seen an increase of derelict urban spaces‚ built-up structures and buildings became obsoletes once its original functions turned into either unimportant
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Radical and incremental innovations have long been the cornerstone of which firms base their knowledge and methods of technological innovation. However‚ this paper serves to bring attention to one of the less apparent forms of innovation‚ whose importance is increasingly being brought to light. Architectural innovations are‚ as defined by Henderson and Clark‚ "innovations that change the way in which the components of a product are linked together‚ while leaving the core design concepts (and thus
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universe. Some may say that Utopias can exist‚ however it is significantly unlikely due to human nature‚ economics‚ and the government‚ but may become a possibility considering the fact that humans contain the capacity to evolve. One reason that a Utopian society is not possible is due to human nature. A society where conflicts are limited is quite impossible because humans may be ignorant to realize their mistakes and attain knowledge from them. Many people believe that utopias are doomed to fail
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SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE Epistemological Definition Worldwide cities are experiencing a rush of population growth‚ this growth to the ecological balance shown against the environment and the exploitation of natural resources have sued implement new methods of construction using new technologies. (Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21ST Century). Sustainable or sustainable architecture seeks to optimize natural resources and building systems that minimize the environmental
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troublesome to fix it all over again. Tropical Design deals with the building elements that are applicable and could withstand the different variations of tropical climate so as to provide buildings that can cope with the philippine climate. Architecture in the philippines is slowly coping up with the "standards" of modern design yet it is specifically inappropriate to the country’s climate -- tropical. It is composed of wet and dry seasons. and these can contribute discomforts to the people starting
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everything‚ especially in the world’s architecture. Greece no longer had one king‚ so they focused on building temples for their gods. Architecture began small and plain but evolved into impressive pieces of art. As time passed from the Archaic period to the Hellenistic period‚ the people of Greece developed a type of formula for their buildings and their pieces of art. In Ancient Greece‚ religion dominated their life‚ so it is understandable that their architecture would be dominated by their religion
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