Think about modern buildings (built after 1900) you may have seen either in person or in pictures that were designed in a classical style. I decided to describe a Northern California home that I was lucky enough to live in for a couple of years, mainly because it is a modern building (approximately 25 years old) but was designed with a classical style. I wanted to describe a building that I know very well and this particular style of architecture (or at least the front façade and columns) is…
be especially close with his mother and have a taste for cookbooks. “Gay” is never explicitly mentioned, rather alluded to through homosexual stereotypes used to describe Rex. In the following scene, “Rex” shows an interest in Jan’s job as an interior designer, expressing how lovely it must be to work with so many colors and fabrics. He then goes on to enjoy an appetizer and allude to getting the recipe so he can make it for his mother back home. Jan immediately questions if they are just…
Along the walls of the interior are bronze plaques the commemorate the names of those who have passed away. Bennett in particular was proud of the rings that he designed in order to hold up candles that would illuminate the names found on the plaques. This represents an interesting…
Socio-economic inequality and institutional racism are some of the issues that plague the american society today, and drive the themes of overcoming adversities and helping others in the poems “Let America Be America Again” (1935) and “Mother To Son” (1922) by Langston Hughes and in the film “The Blindside” (2009) directed by John Lee Hancock. The impact of racial profiling upon society in Hughes’s poems reflect the social context of the great depression and the early civil rights movement,…
Jeff Koons was born in January 21, 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. From an early age, he obtained an interest in the arts from his father who was a furniture store owner and interior designer. After high school, he attended Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore where he received his M.F.A. In 1974, he attended a show in Whitney Museum, NY that inspired him to become an artist. “It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show”(Koons), it was thereafter that he…
Ross Miller, Assoc. AIA, is a designer with HDR Architecture, Inc. in Omaha, Nebraska. He joined the design studio in 2010 and has been involved in designing a wide range of building types and significant projects which have garnered several design and industry awards. In 2014, Ross was selected as a recipient of the Midlands Business Journal's 40 Under 40 Award, an award that honors 40 Greater Omaha, Council Bluffs and Sarpy County entrepreneurs, executives and professional men and women…
A cross between a Dachshund and a Poodle, the Doxiepoo is able to exhibit all of the various attributes of its parents. These dogs can be incredibly smart, but may have a stubborn side from time to time. They can also be exceptionally friendly, but might be suspicious of people they don’t know. Like with any crossbreed, you can’t be quite sure exactly what you’re going to get with a Doxiepoo, but these dogs do tend to be very gentle and joyful creatures in general. They appreciate human company…
Have you heard about ‘Kidult’? ‘Kidult’ is a combination of the words kid and adult and it refers to adults with interest traditionally seen as children. It can also have other meanings, such as a parent who enjoys being a parent due to spending quality time with their children, but is reluctant to lay down the law or handle the more serious aspects of parenthood. In July, the kidult fair took place at the Coex in Seoul. It is a Korea's representative kidult fair which introduces and exhibits…
problem can be avoided in the city on the personal value of the limitations of subjective factors to remove the city characteristic cognition, study those factors closely related to the development and the characteristics of the city space. The city designers, is advocated in the section of concrete design, through research and analysis and system of "city space context", pay attention to maintain continuity in space and city culture, life in the design, in order to highlight the characteristics…
Table of Contents 1. Fluid Mechanics 1.1 Main Branches 1.1.1 Fluid Statics 1.1.2 Fluid Dynamics 1.2 Non-Newtonian and Newtonian Fluids 1.3 Fluids in technology 1.4 Fluid mechanics serving role in society 2. Capillary Effect 3. Self Perpetual motion 1. Fluid mechanics Fluid mechanics is related to the fluids that are in motion and forces acting on them. Fluid mechanics has two branches fluid statics and fluid dynamics. In Fluid Mechanics we actually observe fluid motion and…