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What impact has technology had on architecture of the 20th century? - mainly notes
... 20th century: reinforced concrete, steel and glass. The new materials were inexpensive, mass produced and flexible to use. These affected American cities profoundly by allowing greater density through higher buildings. Imagine the typical office floor plate as we know it: open ...
Streamline Design in America
... experience such as the locomotive.6 "[Women] must, like men, marry machinery."7 - Henry Adams By as early as the year 1865 efforts had been undertaken by American inventor S. R. Calthrop to diminish the atmospheric resistance of locomotives by eliminating as ...
"Symbolic Space: French Enlightenment Architecture and Its Legacy" by Richard A. Etlin.
... buildings. Consider the example of the Pan American Union (1910), where Cret describes his ... of the late eighteenth century, most particularly associated with the French Revolution, as "Revolutionary ... and Its Legacy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994; xxv + 198 pp.; 113 ills. Richard Etlin ...
The elements of design - line, colour, tone, shape, space etc.
... and variety. 5. Textures flowing together in common direction can produce unity. 6. Textures can establish these qualities and feelings associated with them The surface area of any art work is very important. Two dimensional art relies almost completely on there ...
Cathedrals of the 12th Century
... in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Such an association obviously had an effect on the arts, which were still primarily ... George Braziller, 1967. Gimpel, Jean. The Cathedral Builders. New York: Grove Press, 1983. Mitchell, Ann. Great Buildings of the World: Cathedrals of Europe. Feltham ...