Mount Whitney

The Rocky Mountain Landers Peak piece was an original piece created by Albert Bierstadt. The mountain displayed within the piece of art itself was named Lander’s Peak, after a US Army General named Frederick West Lander. Albert Bierstadt spent most of his artistic skills creating landscapes. He eventually became part of the Hudson River School of Painters. This painting displayed a beautiful form of light, in which it completely enlightened the emphasis and focal point of the image. The…

Nobility feast upon delectable foods. The day before had been Vulcanalia, the festival for Vulcan, the god of fire, which was ironic considering what would happen next. Mount Vesuvius started spurting tephra and several gases, blasting 33 kilometers into the air creating a deadly cloud of horror. Also erupting from the Mount was molten rock, blazing white ash, and pumice at the speed of 1.5 million tons per second. The entire city was to be enclosed in ash. There was no escape. The heat was…

Built as the building for the College of Mine- a college which taught some relatively unique majors, the Hearst Memorial Mining Building was designed to have a different character compare to other colleges. With this in mind, it can be observed that some interesting expressions were specifically and intentionally crafted under the drawing pens of John Galen Howard and the outcome is worthy to be discussed and investigated. At the very first, the idea of emphasising the speciality of mining…

Pompeii was an ancient Roman town situated near modern Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum were destroyed in the Mt Vesuvius eruption that occurred just after lunch on the 24th August 79AD. Evidence for the destruction came from a letter by Pliny the Younger, who saw the eruption from a distance and described the incident. " There was daylight by this time, but they were still in darkness, blacker and denser than any ordinary night.." The graffiti ,buildings,…

Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano, located on the West coast of Italy, on the Gulf of Naples and is the only active land volcano in Europe. Mount Vesuvius is 4,190 feet above sea level and is about 50km around its base (figure 1). It is over 17,000 years old and the last eruption occurred in 1944 which was during the Second World War. The volcano is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that damaged many houses and killed many people in the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Furthermore, it is…

attending their institution. However, there are still holes in the support for undocumented students in pursuing higher education. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview of the undocumented student experience, discuss how it relates to Mount Holyoke College, offer viewpoints from the student and dean perspectives, and provide analysis of how the director of multicultural initiatives…

The New Museum is located in the Lower East Side on Bowery and opened its doors in 2007 after expanding and relocating from its previous home in SoHo. Likewise, the Whitney by Renzo Piano Workshop was the result of a need of expansion that saw the museum vacate its old largely residential neighborhood in the Upper East Side and into the Meatpacking District neighborhood of Lower Manhattan on Gansevoort Street in 2015…

How much architecture should be included in a museum? That is a question that not many visitors ask about a museum, however as an architect or designer it is a fundamental question to ask one’s self when it comes to describing a museum. It can become a debate, deciding whether the museum should or should not be a simple massing where art is displayed. If the answer is it should, then why not just design a white box where all the attention goes into the art on the inside? When it comes to museums…

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the Trenton New Jersey State Hospital she herself had established. After six years, July 17, 1887, at 85 years old, Dorothea Dix passed away of what her doctor called claimed was "ossification of the arterial membrane". She was later covered in the Mount Auburn Cemetery close to Boston with the least difficult of memorial…