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    Organic Architecture

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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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    Building Maintenance

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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

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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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    System Architecture

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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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    System architecture

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    System architecture and design of a power plant. Introduction: A power plant is a means for converting the potential energy (wind‚ solar or chemical) into electrical energy. In its simplest form it consists of steam generation equipment (boiler or nuclear reactor) and a turbine driving an electrical generator. The energy sources available in the world include coal‚ oil‚ gas‚ nuclear‚ hydroelectric‚ wind‚ solar‚ refuse-based and biomass. We can broadly categorize power plants into the following

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    Green Architecture

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    Green Architecture Green architecture is an approach to building which has become more popular in the last 25 to 30 years. Also known as sustainable design‚ green architecture is a method of design that minimizes the impact of building on the environment. Once thought of as unconventional and nonstandard‚ both regulatory agencies and the public alike are quickly accepting green architecture as a socially responsible and logical means of construction. The beginnings of today ’s green revolution

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    like to argue that the impact of psychology from the turn of the century to the present has been profound. In general‚ historical accounts of architecture have hitherto placed designers in their cultural context while mysteriously ignoring the psychological movements which helped fuel those cultural shifts. For example‚ most historical accounts of architecture by authors such as Pevsner1 or Frampton2 seemingly ignore the influence of the rise of psychology in the 20th century – including psycho-analysis

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    Hegemony and Architecture

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    .............................................................................................. 7 CHAPTER 2: TERMINOLOGIES ................................................................................................................... 8 2.1 ARCHITECTURE: ........................................................................................................................................ 9 2.2 HEGEMONY: .........................................................................................

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