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Patterns of architectural composition
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Art Nouveau
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Attempts to catalog all possible variants of planning solutions for individual residential buildings of mass construction have been made repeatedly. In particular, in England in the 1960s, annual catalogues of recommended planning solutions for small residential buildings were published with accompanying schemes that make it possible to understand the features of numerous layouts.
All treatises talk about the need for self-knowledge, reading the "scroll" of one's being and the world. In other words, the process of cognition is presented as a constant search for similarity relations and connections between man and the...
Conquered by the Arabs in 711-713. In the 11th century. the Christian states of northern Spain returned part of the conquered territories, including Toledo, in 1085. 1212 - the defeat of the Moors in the battle of Las Navas...
Heritage
The way we have looked at historical buildings has changed greatly over the past 150 years. From being all but ignored by the authorities,...
Composition in the design of engineering structures
Today, the consciousness of designers has come very close to transforming into artistic creativity the principles and techniques of those types of engineering design...
Knowledge in architecture: draughtsmanship or craftsmanship?
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Zaha Hadid Strategy Of Design
When noticing the complex presentation of Hadid's works from the early 1980s to mid-1990s, anyone might face a difficulty to understand her way of...
Streets, lanes and footpaths
Our movement through towns is normally along streets and roads, and hence our perception of the quality of place is shaped by what we...