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    Roman Architecture

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    The city of Rome has many of the great architectural feats of the ancient world. Many of these buildings and other assorted structures‚ although they were built around 2000 years ago‚ are still standing and even in use. At the start of Roman history‚ they imported their marble from another great ancient city; Greece. However‚ they did eventually find quarries in northern Italy that held an abundance of white marble. This marble helped them become the great architectural city that we see even

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    Solar Architecture

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    Deon Brown Professor Wilard Writing Composition 6 October 2012 Architectural Solar Systems Present day architecture has advanced in many ways. A style of architecture which could prove to be very beneficial to Earth and its people in the future is solar energy architecture; the use of sun to channel energy and maintain a household. Solar energy still seems a mysterious subject to many people. According to Roy Erving in The Architectural Handbook‚ they make it seem as complicated as “putting

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    The Mughal Architecture

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    Mughal architecture Mughal architecture‚ an amalgam of Islamic‚ Persian‚ Turkish and Indian architecture‚ is the distinctive style developed by the Mughals in the 16th‚ 17th and 18th centuries in what is now India‚ Pakistan‚ Bangladesh and Afghanistan. It is symmetrical and decorative in style. The Mughal dynasty was established after the victory of Babur at Panipat in 1526 (the Battle of Panipat) . During his five-year reign‚ Babur took considerable interest in erecting buildings‚ though few have

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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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    Arm Architecture

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    ARM Processor Architecture Some Slides are Adopted from NCTU IP Core Design Some Slides are Adopted from NTU Digital SIP Design Project SOC Consortium Course Material Outline ARM Core Family ARM Processor Core Introduction to Several ARM processors Memory Hierarchy Software Development Summary SOC Consortium Course Material 2 ARM Core Family SOC Consortium Course Material 3 ARM Core Family Application Cores ARM Cortex-A8 ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore ARM Cortex-A9 Single Core

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    Architecture for Dummies

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    Architecture is all about the construction and design of buildings and other physical structures. It is often considered as a blend of art‚ science and imagination. In fact‚ architecture is also related to money and investments. Any piece of Architecture has a value beyond the quantitative materialistic point of view of the economics. But value added design refers to the measurable economic benefit gained due to a design. Well‚ Architecture is considered to be the practice of designing buildings

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    Brand Architecture

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    throughout different segments and markets‚ provide brand protection and minimize overlapping. Each of the sub brand names has a well-defined role and positioning‚ which does not overlay with the other sub brands. Individually each car model offers unique benefits to its client segment. BMW’s brand hierarchy is characterized well in the firm’s strategy by displaying the mutual characteristics of all BMW cars throughout its portfolio‚ which are linked with luxury‚ performance‚ joy of driving and

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    Moorish Architecture

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    September 19‚ 2012 Moorish Architecture in Andalusia Who were the Moors? The Moors were a group of Arabs‚ Berbers‚ and Iberian Muslims‚ who in the 8th century‚ conquered most of what is now modern day Spain and Portugal. My purpose for writing this paper is to inform the reader of one of many cultural contributions the Moors gave “Andalusia” (modern day Spain‚ Portugal‚ and bits of France). Much of Andalusia’s architecture was greatly influenced by Moorish architecture. The Moors had a history

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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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    Computer Architecture

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    Computer architecture or digital computer organization is the conceptual design and fundamental operational structure of a computer system. It’s a blueprint and functional description of requirements and design implementations for the various parts of a computer‚ focusing largely on the way by which the central processing unit (CPU) performs internally and accesses addresses in memory. It may also be defined as the science and art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create computers

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