The Misanthrope – Moliere The Masks We Wear Moral character types emerged during the latter stages of Greek literature, specifically in the new comedy of Menander; preceded by the creation of Theophrastus’ stock characters, which were based on observation of everyday life. First introduced to audiences in 1666, Moliere staged The Misanthrope in the upper-class salon of Celimene. Essentially, the salon is a microcosm of the royal court. In between duties at Louis XIV’s court, the elite townspeople
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Brutalism originated in the mid-1950s and was based on the work of modern architecture pioneer Le Corbusier. It refers to the buildings which having distinct sculptured form, bold geometries and material rigor - usually in rough or textured concrete. Le Corbusier purposed that Architecture ‘is to establish emotional relationships by means of raw materials’. Goldstein Hall as a brutalist buildings with an emphasis on structural expression and extreme material honesty invoked a matter of ‘harmonies’
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Up until the time of the Great Depression, experimentation of architectural styles took place. However, during the years to follow the Great Depression and the First and Second World War, priorities shifted, and once again the wants of the individual fell short the essential needs. It was not possible, because the determination was redirected to the insurance that there was at least a future to come. But soon after World War Two, the housing market boomed once again, and with it the suburbs developed
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In 1926, Le Corbusier introduced his five points of architecture, which he had been developing throughout the 1920s; the first of these five points was the use of pilotis (concrete columns which support the building above ground). In Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier uses all of his five points to develop this house including the pilotis and they serve an important function. Of there functions is how they free a space below the building allowing spatial and formal flexibility and increasing the area for
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Modernist architecture’s promise--and, later, unfortunate failure--to shape a utopian society. What gets less attention is that, a decade earlier, another urban vision was taking form more than 8,000 miles away, in India, under the supervision of Le Corbusier. Chandigarh, like Brasília, was intended to be a sparkling new city, created from scratch as a way of shaking off the albatross of colonialism and instating a native, democratic government. And modern notions of urban planning and architecture
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1.0-Thesis statement Urban planning is the political and technical process focused on utilization of urban land and designing of urban environment in ensuring and guiding the orderly development of communities and settlements (Levy, 2011). The entire urban planning process entails analysis and research, architecture, public consultation strategic thinking, urban design, policy recommendation, management and plans/policy implementation. One of the most notable aspect urban planning covers the housing
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past each other at a conservative plate boundary 4. Where were the epicentre and focus? * The focus of the earthquake was 13km (8.1 miles) below the surface of the earth. * The epicentre was 25km west of Port-Au-Prince and 130km east of Les Cayes, Haiti 5. What has been the historical earthquake activity in the region? * There have been roughly 7 major earthquakes in Haiti since the 1960’s 6. What causes amplification and liquifaction? Why were these processes significant
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tyranny of Guilt An Essay on Western Masochism • P r i n c e t o n u n i v e r si t y P r e s s Princeton and Oxford english translation copyright © 2010 by Princeton university Press First published as La tyrannie de la pénitence: essai sur le masochisme occidental by Pascal Bruckner, copyright © 2006 by Grasset & Fasquelle Published by Princeton university Press, 41 William street, Princeton, new Jersey 08540 in the united kingdom: Princeton university Press, 6 oxford street, Woodstock,
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UNITE D’HABITATION By the late 1940s Le Corbusier was well established in the CIAM and promoted Modernist architecture for public housing. Unite d’habitation (1947-52) in Marseilles is a large single 12 storey block consisting of 337 apartments, shops, a hotel, a restaurant, a kindergarten, and a rooftop area for leisure and exercise. The Unite illustrates the neo-Platonic Modular system which he developed post 1945, creating careful proportions and bright, spacious apartments. It is comparable
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