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Papers On Architecture & Design
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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.
Filename: PPgrdnRf.rtf
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.
Filename: SA441slb.rtf
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.
Filename: RAdecons.rtf
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.
Filename: SA408Arc.rtf
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.
Filename: RAiscrt.rtf
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.
Filename: TEcragsd.wps
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.
Filename: kharcbks.rtf
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