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Gothic Architecture and Renaissance Architecture
A comparative analysis of Gothic and Renaissance architecture. -- 675 w.; 3 src.;

Timber in Tectonic Architecture
An explanation of tectonic architecture and how this form of architecture can make use of timber. -- 2,245 w.; 7 src.; MLA

The Architecture of the Maya
An examination of the architecture of the Maya and their great contribution to world architecture. -- 2,888 w.; 6 src.; MLA

Ancient Roman Architecture
A paper which studies the influences of ancient Roman architecture on modern architectural designs. -- 2,005 w.; 10 src.; MLA

Palladian Architecture
This paper discusses Palladian architecture, a natural form of architecture initially invented by Andrea Palladio, but really defined by Inigo Jones and Thomas Jefferson. -- 3,420 w.; 6 src.; MLA

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"Communities Become Uncivilized" Reviews this article written by Richard Sennett.
In his article "Community Become Uncivilized," Richard Sennett, state that planners, seeking to create a utopia are creating modern ghettos through their idealist view of communities. Communities have become transformed into breeding grounds for like-minded thought and the homogeneous. Crowds,...

Number of paragraphs: 10 Number of sentences: 82 Number of words: 1074

Leon Battista Alberti Looks at the views of this Medieval city planner on art in the Middle Ages.
Leon Battista Alberti

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Bauhaus
Developed as a reaction to the industrial age, the Bauhaus school synthesizes art and utilitarian craft. By maximizing the potential for ordinary objects to be designed as works of fine art, the Bauhaus masters changed the way banal household objects like lamps and chairs look today. The...

Number of paragraphs: 2 Number of sentences: 10 Number of words: 181

Icarus Indifferent
The three artists -- the two poets, WH Auden, and William Carlos William, and the painter Peter Breughel the Elder -- in their works about the drowning of Icarus are all reporting on the notion that the world is bigger than any event that may transpire within it. No matter how significant that...

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The Parthenon
Art History The term Parthenon means apartment of the virgin and was built for the goddess Athena while the Pantheon was built as a Roman temple and later consecrated as a Catholic Church. The Parthenon was built to house a huge gold and ivory (chryselephantine) statue of the goddess Athena,...

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Dino Buzzati's "L'
One of the major themes in the work of Dino Buzzati is human effort and its sometimes disastrous consequences. In the collection entitled L'

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Quasi-Public Privatized Space-Centrally
Quasi-Public Privatized Space-Centrally Many authors and citizens would support the idea that public space should be democratically organized to support communal usage from people in all walks of life. Historically, public parks and similar landscapes were scene as avenues for community...

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Monticello
Monticello, the mansion that Thomas Jefferson designed in the hills of Virginia near the State University that he founded, has three portraits that are to be found on the wall of President Jefferson

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Edo-Sakariba and Ginza/Asakusa
Edo-Sakariba and Ginza/Asakusa: A comparison of similarities and differences "Instead of an economic or sociologic determination, [Seidensticker] focuses on the effect upon society of the disappearance of this theater building, that caf

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