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    Architecture was a means to human satisfaction as well as a way to appease a higher entity. (T) Architecture was often used by civilizations to prove to their occupants that they were powerful and raise morale. (A) The bigger, more elegant or complex the structure, the easier it would be for you to intimidate your enemies and show that your empire was a force to be reckoned with. (B) Through high vaulted ceilings, magnificent displays of engineering and breath taking pieces of art, a religion…

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    Katherine Herrera Prof. Lange ARTH: Contemporary World Art October 14, 2015 Reading Journal 2 In the essay Grids from The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths by Rosalind Krauss, she focuses on grids and how they represent modernity of modern art. Krauss talks about how there are two ways that grid art is modern art. The first is because it is spatial, meaning its flatness is what makes the work of art unnatural and completely acts separately from the realm of art. The…

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    Certefereau Everyday Life

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    Response Paper 1: A Comparison between The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau and The Spaces of the Modern City by Gyan Prakash and Kevin Kruse. The Spaces of the Modern City and The Practice of Everyday Life are two works dedicated to understanding the modern city. Though both de Certeau and Prakash engage with same ideas, contrasting the ‘imagined’ or constructed vision of the modern city, with the ‘real’ or experienced city (exemplified by the everyday life of its inhabitants),…

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    Norman Foster's Life

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    significantly devote their lives to humanity and the environment through architecture. When an architect receives this award, they also receive $100,000 and a bronze medal. Foster also received one of the prestigious Princess of Asturias Awards. Awards are given out for those who have made scientific, cultural, and humanistic advancements in the world, and Foster has definitely done that. These are only a few of the extremely prestigious awards and honors that Norman Foster has received in…

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    Pentadic Analysis Essay

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    A Pentadic Analysis of the John M. Pfau Library Introduction One way for humans to express their selves is through buildings because buildings could represent the values of the people who built them as well as the people who use them. For example, the pyramids in Egypt where built by king Kufu to serve as a tombs for the ruling dynasty of Egypt at that time as well as to express the greatness of this dynasty by enormous size of the building and the placement of gold and jewelry inside. Thus,…

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    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…

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    Mayan architecture, what many believe to be just temples and buildings is so much more. In this paper the impact of the Mayan style of architecture on both their daily lives and culture and how it left a lasting legacy to cement the status of a classical empire will be shown. Their architectural style will also be described along with how it was different in how it was done and an original style of architecture. Mayan architecture was developed in the classical empire of Maya. They developed…

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    Parthenon Research Paper

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    and advanced technology. As civilizations began to thrive and populations began to increase, architecture became a necessity. Architecture, the art of designing and constructing buildings has existed from the earliest of ancient civilizations. Over time, architecture has evolved with different architectural techniques utilized by different societies such as the Greeks. One primary example of Greek architecture is the Parthenon. The construction of…

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    Barcelona Research Paper

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    This is the where the great works of Spanish born artist Antoni Gaudi, usually considered to be the epitome of architecture in Catalan modernism, recognized as the face of Barcelona architecture. Gaudi’s was born in born in 1852, and his upbringing was not easy. He was the youngest of five, and two of them died because of different types of health related illnesses. The hardships of his youth give us…

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    To look at the fundamental ideas of the theory of folding and to help understand the theory in context, explore it amongst the features of post modern architecture. look at works by architects such as Peter Eisenmann and see how he has interpreted the theory of folding as an alternative interpretation of conceptual design. in which one building has a continuous form (folding), and one has a fragmented form (deconstructivism) - two buildings in relation to deleuzes theory through discussion and…

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