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    designs for his buildings were dissimilar‚ he did not have the patience that Pei has and‚ most significantly‚ he was not as fortunate. During the duration of the film‚ we are shown the several buildings that Louis designed and can see how his architecture work differs from work like Pei’s. Unlike Pei’s structures which presents a heavy use of windows to get natural lighting‚ Louis designs his buildings to be more sealed‚ allowing only certain parts to be either left open or filled with glass. Another

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    Scottish society was that it diverted the public attention from politics to literature and encouraged the production of vernacular poetry‚ but Watson’s personal main goal was to “rival the collections of miscellaneous poems in our neighboring kingdoms and states”.2 William Hamilton of Gilbertfield wrote verse epistles‚ thus beginning a tradition of verse letters in the vernacular‚ later to be exploited by Robert Burns. “Watson’s contribution was editorial and antiquarian rather than creative‚ but

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    Know the benefits of hiring the service of a tenant improvement architect for your commercial property development What is Tenant improvement architecture? Tenant improvement architecture can significantly improve the feel‚ look‚ and the flow of the inside space of a structure. What can a tenant improvement architect achieve? A tenant improvement architect is a professional who can change the space of the commercial facility according to the tastes and needs of the commercial building owner or can

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    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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    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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    MODERN ARCHITECTURE De Stijl Architecture De Stijl architecture was formed by a group of young artists who created the new movement in 1917; calling both the movement and the magazine they published De Stijl. The group promoted utopian ideals and group members believed in the birth of new age in the wake of WWI. They felt it was a time of balance between individual and universal values. The work was completely abstract as well. The goal was total integration of art and life. GERRIT THOMAS RIETVELD

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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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    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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