Architectural elements

Commentary Campus Richie Riches Need Archies March 01, 2002|BOB SHIREMAN | Bob Shireman, program director for higher education at the James Irvine Foundation, served as an education aide to President Clinton. Web site: www.irvine.org. Email Share Perhaps you have seen USC's advertisements playfully objecting to the "University of Spoiled Children" moniker that some had given the institution in years past. The ad made me wonder: If the spoiled children aren't at USC, where are they? They must be…

hotel until 1967 and then turned into Flagler College. This beautifully intricate building is made of sand, coquina shell gravel, and cement. The building itself is a gray colored and laced with red window panes and archways. There were several elements or principles i noticed in this building. The first one is balance the symmetry with the towers in the building are perfect. The next is context the building is located…

I. Some structures are built for a specific purpose, others as a form of art and some, a symbol of a growing country. After 2 ½ years later the Gateway Arch has become one of America’s iconic symbol of growth and prosperity. The Gateway Arch is located in St. Louis Missouri, it’s also on the east side of the Mississippi River. Eero Saarinen an architect came up with the design and won a contest from it. The Gateway arch is a fascinating historical structure built through the hard work of…

One of these examples is “Icarus and Daedalus, Lord Frederic Leighton, ca. 1869, Private collection”. In this artwork, Mr. Leighton successfully depicted all three of the key elements: Icarus arrogance, the red cloth, and Daedalus’ seriousness, and did so in an amazing because he incorporated them in different artistic ways. He did not simply express any hubristic emotions on Icarus’s face, but rather through other artistic methods…

1645, Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa”. Although the bright red cloth that cover Icarus is replaced with a white one, this artwork still does well in beautifully capturing the other essential elements of this scene. Icarus is depicted looking over his shoulder with his head tilted slightly upward to express his cocky mood. His facial expression shows that he is not paying attention to what his father is telling him and is just brushing it off…

construction to begin. The client must employ a contractor to carry out the design and construction phase of the project. In a design and build project the contractor has the most responsibility as they are tasked with both the design and construction elements of a project. The contractor can carry out the construction phase themselves but may need assistance with the design phase unless they have their own in house design team. Although the contractor may outsource the design work to…

The sections we read were part of a larger study by Toby Huitson into the uses and purposes of the upper spaces in Gothic Cathedrals. Throughout the text, he looks at many possible uses for different spaces based on surviving texts and architectural cues. Huitson looks at why we don’t know their specific uses at the time of construction along with what they were used for later on as a possible window into the original intention of the spaces. In his research, Huitson looks at old writings…

Although the Cathedral of St. Raphael didn’t need to use these doric columns and barrel vaults as main support system for the architectural integrity, they use elegant cylinder shaped support pillars as design and minor support for the overall structure. Any building that has the Byzantium architectural era identity, it would certainly include artifacts, icons, elegant decorated manuscripts, displays, interior designing, and images that portray beauty, richness…

The buildings in the Elizabethan Era, were the biggest and most awkward looking things ever. The buildings were built out of wood, were decorated nicely, and were mostly built on hills in a village format. One question people tend to ask very often is, “What were these buildings made out of?” Most of these buildings were Half Timbered. Made up of mostly wood with extremely large windows. The timbers that the architects used were usually very tall and widely spaced out. People's houses…

Malfunctional is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of North Sioux City Downtown. The functions of a downtown are to be sociable, comfortable, and useful. North Sioux City has none of those aspects relating to their downtown. There are very few purposes to go downtown in North Sioux City, because the diversity of residents and businesses is low. The businesses there are either casinos, restaurants, or liquor store there are no shops, cafes, or other businesses besides one bank. All…