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Papers On Architecture & Design
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Architecture of the Villa Rotunda
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A 5 page essay describing the mathematical symmetry and ordered appearance created by this classic architecture. The writer describes how Andrea Palladio created the appearance of order by creating a central axis and symmetry in columns, windows from this point, and repeated on all four sides. The writer also describes how outer frescos add to the building’s stature, and how these themes are repeated internally. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: Cnvlacap.wps
Racism as a Social Creation
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This 5 page paper looks at racism historically as well as in the present day. While a focus is on racism in America, the paper talks about race and racism in a general sense. The utilization of biological definitions is discussed but racism is seen as something which evolved from parts of American history. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: SA008rce.rtf
“Art nouveau”
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A five page paper which looks at the importance of the art nouveau movement of the late nineteenth century and some of the other art and design movements, such as the Bauhaus school and New Objectivity which arose out of it.
Bibliography lists 3 sources
Filename: JLArtnouv.rtf
“Bernini and Gimaud”
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A paper which looks at the similarities between Bernini, the foremost artist of the High Baroque period, and Gimaud, one of the most prominent members of the Art Nouveau movement, in terms of their interpretation of their respective cultures and their use of innovatory forms and materials.
Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: JLBern.rtf
“Modern and Post-Modern Design in Urban Planning and Interiors”
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A five page paper which looks at modernism and post-modernism as they relate to urban planning and design, and to the integration of form and function in interior design.
Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: JLdesign. wps
“The Effects of Industrialisation on Art”
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A five page paper which looks at the effect which the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century had upon art, and the ways in which reactions against it such as the Art and Craft movement led to the development of Art Nouveau and the later combination of functional design with aesthetics which was exemplified in the works of such artists as Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: JLindustart.wps
"Living" Architecture
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This 7 page paper explores the historic work of
Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Mies van der
Rohe and Eero Saarinen. An example of each
architect's work shows how their design, through
use of innovate materials and unique vision, still "lives" in its environment.
Bibliography lists 10 sources..
Filename: BBlivarc.doc.
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