Considerations for a Rooftop Garden
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A 10 page exploration of the design elements that would go into a rooftop garden. Rooftop environments vary significantly from ground level environments. Design parameters must take this fact into consideration. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Constructing the concrete slab house foundation
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This 4 page paper examines the usefulness of this type of foundation. It then goes on to provide information on how to create such a foundation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Contemporary Architects: Deconstructivists
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A 3 page paper which examines what criteria are used for labeling contemporary architects deconstructivist. No bibliography provided due to the fact that articles, or essays, were faxed without bibliographic information.
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Controversy in Architecture: The Emergence of Different Schools of Thought
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This 7 page paper focuses on modernism and the end of modernism. Archigram as well as other schools of thought are included in this paper that looks at the criticism about paradigms to emerge during the time period. Buckminster Fuller's work is examined as well. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Courtyards in Islamic Architecture
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A 5 page paper which examines elements in Islamic architecture as they involve courtyards. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Cragside; A Singular House of the Victorian Age
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This 11 page paper considers the national Trust owned building of Cragside in Rothbury, Northumberland. This building was an innovative and unusual building, it was the first building to have the entire house lit by hydro-electric power, along with central heating, hot and cold running water, a Turkish bath, and even fire alarms. Built in 1870 – 1880 by Lord Armstrong the paper charts the development and impotence of this unusual building. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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Critiquing 2 Books on Architecture
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A 6 page analysis of two books on architectural history -- Space, Time and Architecture by Sigfried Giedion and Georgian London by John Summerson. The writer discusses how each author utilizes his sources and makes his main points. No additional sources cited.
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Dance and Architecture: Spatiality and Orientation
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17 pages in length. Within dance, as within architecture, there is a continuum between space and time. As a dancer dances, the central part of the body is in unique correlation with the limbs, and the spatiality between all parts creates an art form which is the dance itself. The dance is not merely a series of movements, just as architecture is not merely a series of buildings. The entirety of the work is determined not only by the positive spaces, i.e., the body or the buildings, but by the negative spaces as well. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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