Architecture Essays

Gothic Revival and Neoclassicism Architecture in Churches
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Introduction: Gothic Revival and Neoclassicism were strong architectural movements which occurred during the mid 18th to the end of the 19th century. In Wellington, these two architectural movements can be seen thr...

Effect of Public Squares on Social Interaction
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Introduction: SOCIAL COHESION AND THE ROLE OF THE PUBLIC SQUARE IN CONTRAST TO THE THIRD PLACE Social cohesion is a term used insocial policy, sociology and political science to describe the levels of social inclu...

Architectural Design Proposal of Reading Space
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Introduction: 3.1 Historical Purpose & Context If we surmise that temporary architecture is, essentially, something that is not permanent, then in one form or another – as stated – it has existed...

Architecture to Combat Global Warming
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Introduction: Introduction: Global warming is serious problem affecting our planet, if continually ignored, climate change, air quality, the environment, and over all quality of life of mankind is at serious risk. ...

Risk-taking During Childhood Play
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Introduction: Introduction to the proposed study area The aim of this dissertation is to focus on the question of the nature of risk around children’s play. What risks are the kinds of risks children prefer? ...

Study on the Industrial Abandoned Lands
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Introduction: Industrial abandoned lands, ruins, eyesores, voids, derelict, urban deserts, dead zones, silent spaces, landscapes of contempt, and squats are just a few of the words that have been used to figure out...

Urban Planning Strategies in Cairo
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Introduction: Cairo is the Egyptian capital, the largest city in Africa. It is located in the Nile Delta, 14 kilometers south of the Nile River. The most area of the city is in the east of the river and it is 120 k...

Parametric and Algorithmic Design: Faux Forms?
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Introduction: Architecture is often practiced in a world dominated by the many, the client or the public and in many cases only understood by the few. Architecture has been relatively unsuccessful at moving forward...

History and Hypothesis of Stonehenge and Easter Island
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Introduction: Stonehenge is a set of earthworks and an ancient monument located in Wiltshire, England. It is considered the most famous and visited site in the world and is one of the mysteries in the world which h...

Fish Recognition and Classification System Architecture
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Introduction: 1.1 Introduction In the previous chapter, the architecture and the approaches of object recognition and classification system were shown in details. Moreover, the features of shape characters of fish ...

Listed Building Consent Application Example
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Introduction: Christina Kleanthous Papademetriou  Keepers Lodge – Canterbury Road, Denton with Wootton, Kent, CT4 6QZ Contents Introduction Information and Background Purpose of the study – Li...

Green Walls: Benefits in the Contemporary City
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Introduction: INTRODUCTION Green wall and its necessity The living, organic systems characterized by green walls, are integrated with the inorganic and lifeless structures are dominating modern architecture and hol...

Richard Rogers Architect Biography
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Introduction: This report is written to acknowledge an architectural design icon, Richard Rogers. I will be looking at this man’s life and his accomplishments. Richard Rogers is my design icon because his bui...

Comparison of the Egyptian Pyramids and Roman Colosseum
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Introduction: Chris Flathmann Whether it be shape, material, purpose, or significance, every piece of architecture is uniquely similar and uniquely different to every other piece. Despite being separated by bot...

Issues in Altering Historical Buildings
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Introduction: Interventions, the contemporary versus the historic, timeless or trend, sympathetic or callous? An investigation into the relationship between historic architecture and contemporary interventions, An ...

Urban Design for Community Development | Case Study
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Introduction: Introduction Urban design is considered the practice of influencing and managing the urban environment. Its role and potential for creating better places in areas with community issues shall be discus...

Modernist Design Styles in Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright
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Introduction: Modernism appeared in the 20th century. Modernism is simple and with no decoration design style. Although this style was appear early 20th century and have different designers or architect have many ...

Duty of Care and Contractual Agreements in Architecture
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Introduction: Section 1 Clearly explain what particular requirements must be in place for a Contract to exist between two parties? For a contract to exist between two parties there must be evidence of three key p...

Barriers to Sustainable Construction Contractors
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Introduction: Abstract: This research aims to investigate Sustainable Construction barriers implementation to SMEs (Small and Medium sized Enterprises) in the UK. The undertaken investigation mostly emphasises the ...

Louis Isadore Kahn Architect: Fisher House
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Introduction: Louis Isadore Kahn was born on February 20, 1901 on the Island of Saaremaa, Estonia to Leopold and Bertha Mendelsohn. Upon emmigrating to the state of Philadelphia in the U.S, the early part of the fa...

Definitions of Multiprocessors in Computing
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Introduction: A multiprocessor can be defined as the computer which uses two or more processing units under the integrated control. Multi-processing is also defined as the way of using two or more than two CPUs wit...

Double Skin Façade Case Study
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Introduction: Abstract Double skin façade refers to a building façade covering one or several stories with multiple glazed skins (Chan, Chow, Fong and Lin, 2009). The aim of this essay is trying to explore the ...

MAXXI National Museum Architecture
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Introduction: MAXXI MUSEUM­­    Contemporary Architecture This report will focus on MAXXI National Museum and it will provide a comprehensive review of Contemporary museum architecture (built in Rome in 2009...

Understanding Sustainability in Architecture
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Introduction: Chapter 1: Understanding Sustainability in Architecture Project Objectives The essay primarily intends to investigate inclusion of the sustainable environmental design by architectural professional an...

Effects of Technology on Modern Day Architecture and Design
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Introduction: Architecture has revolutionized and changed in the twenty-first century compared to the nineteen century due to technology. Even though many factors have played major roles in the changing of archite...