Essays Tagged: "Le Corbusier"

This essay is about the golden rectangle/section.

Golden Section has been referred to as the Divine Proportion, the golden ratio or the Golden Rectangle. This proportion has been demonstrated in the Greek architecture of the Parthenon, the Renaissanc ... n has been demonstrated in the Greek architecture of the Parthenon, the Renaissance architecture of Leon Battista Alberti's Santa Maria Novella in Florence, in the Invisible Squares of Mondrian and us ...

(2 pages) 56 0 3.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

Le Corbusier Biography, Interior Designer and Architect

t century. A current biography for oral or writtens ubmission is what this piece contains! Good luckLe Corbusier Biography, Interior Designer and ArchitectLe Corbusier was born in 1887 in the Swiss wa ... er was born in 1887 in the Swiss watchmaking town of La Chaux de Fonds. His father was a highly skilled watch enameler; his mother was a pianist and music teacher. The family was Protestant;At the age ...

(3 pages) 65 0 3.4 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

Architecture Set In Motion

Salon de la Princess, is a many sided cylindrical interior room and is part of the Rococo style that incorporates minimal architectural features and light airy decor, that develops into a profe ... rior design. Rococo is the revolt against complicated Baroque that decorated the interior of Versailles, in revolt against the palace and after the death of Louis XIV, French women who had city houses ...

(6 pages) 68 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Conceptualizing Technology

litting the essay into three main sections I believe will bring out the best of the debate.The example I have decided to use throughout the essay is a contemporary office design, based upon Zuboff's ' ... t/informated organisation', and the artefact in particular simply being the architecture itself; as Le Corbusier (1923) exclaimed, architecture is the first manifestation of a man creating his own uni ...

(17 pages) 52 0 3.0 Jul/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers