The architectural style of homes has evolved drastically with the advancement of human needs and skills. During the precolonial era, homes fulfilled the basic need for shelter and protection from the natural world. These traditional vernacular, or folk, homes where fashioned from local and readily available materials such as wood and thatching material. Visually these homes where very rudimentary and, provided very basic accommodations for the family’s needs. Early colonization introduced more European
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Everyone wants a home that is as beautiful on the outside as it is on the inside. Keeping your home and exterior aesthetically good requires a lot of work. Not only does it require the homeowner's commitment but it also requires a lot of money to be invested in such a project. Ideas 4 Landscaping is create for the majority of people who aren't great at creating an artistic but functional vision of what the interior and exterior of a house should be having a visual reference of what is possible for
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Architecture is filled with history, beauty, purpose, and it allows society from all cultures to gain insight into the construction methods of another culture. From the Notre Dame Cathedral to the Pyramids to the Mayan Ruins; century after century new architecture emerges as a representation of that cultural time period and the people that inhibited it. These buildings serve as a visual track record of humanity and the evolution of its history from building to building. Architecture play a large
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Zaha Hadid and Suprematism Zaha Hadid's career began in the 1970s; in an era of socio-political changes that let to a sense of disillusion with established norms and cultural practices. In arts as well as architecture, there has been a shift in consciousness, and an emerging desire to break with the old and to create something new (Woods, 2009). Hadid, taught by notorious figures such as Bernard Tschumi or Rem Koolhaas, who have attempted to challenge existing architectural principles by modernist
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The Journal of Asian Studies http://journals.cambridge.org/JAS Additional services for The Journal of Asian Studies: Email alerts: Click here Subscriptions: Click here Commercial reprints: Click here Terms of use : Click here Architecture of Bali: A Source Book of Traditional and Modern Forms. By Made (Michael White) Wijaya. Honolulu: University of Hawai Press, 2002. 224 pp. \$50.00(cloth). Mary-Louise Totton The Journal of Asian Studies / Volume 63 / Issue 02 / May 2004, pp 566 - 568
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a capacity crowd;his first lecture in Texas since his departure from Austin in the summer of 1957. I have arrived late, having driven the 350miles from San Antonio to the Dallas-Fort Worth area.Though there is a substantial contingent of young architecture students for whom the lecture is only one of a series,glancing around I reacquaint myself with the older faces;the balding,graying heads in the hall----Duane Landry and Jane Lorenz Landry,Bill Odum,Bill Booziotes,Rik Mcbride,and many,many others---all
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a noted remodeling architect who has worked in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area for over twenty years. He has built hundreds of his own designs, ranging from modest bungalows to large-scale luxury residences. Passionate about historic architecture, Wentworth has also handled numerous historic renovations. He recently put his survey of residential architectural styles in the DC metro area online so that interested viewers can research and identify their own home's period and style, or those
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Tom Marrow is a Houston based architect who is the sole owner of a very successful architecture firm, Tomorrow Planning, Inc. Tomorrow Planning, Inc. was established in 1999. The firm does Office and Industrial builds for the majority of their projects. The owner, Tom, graduated from the University of Michigan in 1983 with a BA of Science and Architecture. Tom never planned on being an entrepreneur, but said he was thrown into it when the company he interned for started to go downhill. “I was
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Architecture and the Environment Monica Diaz PSY/460 Carlos Guzman September 17, 2012 Architecture and the Environment Human beings respond to their environment in different ways. What is seen and perceived affects the behavior that is exuded. This is true for architectural design and physical structure. In fact, architectural design can control human behavior. Architects build structures and place them strategically in order to respond
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urban framework design scheme and how it aims to enrich the urban fabric and resolve existing problems in urban the urban framework. • Discuss the primary goal and main objectives of the newly established urban design framework. • Discuss the architecture concepts and design strategies used in the WSS Building which are similar in regards to the CEM building that responds to the primary goal and main objectives of the newly established urban design framework. • Comparison
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