People drive past El Paso High School every day and never bother to admire the beautiful

In the memoir, Barrio Boy written by Ernesto Galarza, the main character, Ernesto, was determined to learn the American ways, but still keep his Mexican heritage with determination, challenges, and cooperation. In the very beginning of the story, Ernesto had some challenges that he faced. He was afraid of what this school would be like. Therefore, in the text, Ernesto says,”I noticed other differences, none of them very reassuring.” There are many different things Ernesto notices about the school.He points out things such as,”half of the block was occupied by the Lincoln School,” and ,”it was a new building ,painted yellow, with a shingled roof that was not ike the red tile of the school in Mazatlan.” These differences made Ernesto nervous. Another struggle Ernesto had at first was getting used to

El Paso High School also shares a few things in common with one of Rome’s most famous temple’s, the Pantheon. Both buildings have a vestibule above the pediments, which connect the porticos to the building itself. El Paso High’s vestibule connects each structure at a rectangular ‘L’ shaped 45-degree angle. Although the Pantheon utilizes it’s vestibules by connecting the dome to the portico. On the frieze of El Paso High School the name of the high school is inscribed in a similar fashion as the inscription on the Pantheon’s frieze. The inscription reads, “M. AGRIPPA L. F. COS. TERTIUM. FECIT," translating to, "Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, Consul for the third time, built this." Hadrian, of course, had added this to the building when he restored it after it burned down in 80 AD in order to pay homage

Influenced by his readings of ancient and modern architectural writings, Jefferson gleaned the best from both his readings and from his observations in Europe, creating his own personal style of architecture, a mix of Neoclassicism’s Roman temples, and Palladian villa. Partly, because of Jefferson’s influence, our federal buildings set an American precedent for the neoclassical style. Jefferson’s admiration for neoclassical style went so far as to design

Within historic Virginia City resides the Fourth Ward School, a building constructed in 1874. When it was built, Virginia City was booming with a population of approximately twenty-two-thousand people. Virginia City at the time wanted to show off some of its pride as a city with a new four story school. As the school today is so very old and has a history, people running the museum have to balance keeping the place funded and staying historically true. Today, the museum has lost much of its historical authenticity and has taken on more of a museum’s role, rather than a historical building role. However, that does not diminish the education potential the Fourth Ward School still has.

In her informative article, New Building at SJHHS Announced (Oct 25th 2015), author Chetana Piravi asserts the new up-in-coming building soon to be built at SJHHS, and what can come with this new addition, both good and bad. Piravi develops this assertion by using credible sources from around the school such as Principal, Jennifer Smalley and Assistant Principal, Darrin Jindra, giving their take on this new building and how it can positively impact the school. Piravi’s purpose is to explain to both students and parents of SJHHS how this new building although will harm the current Freshman, Sophomores, and Juniors, will certainly pay off in the years to come. Piravi uses a elucidative tone with her young, and troublesome adult audience to give

The different architectural styles and use of public space throughout Pratt Institute expresses both the function of the university and its relation to Clinton Hill and to changes occurring in New York City. Pratt’s original campus consisted of three brick Romanesque Revival styled buildings that were built adjacent to one another, the Main Building, the East Hall Building, and the Student Union, and Pratt Institute Library, which along with the Rose Garden, were available for public usage. Characterized by its extravagant masonry, massive appearance, rounded-arch windows, and arcaded entrances, the Main Building was designed after the Romanesque Revival Style to reflect the wealth and sophistication of the newly rich, like Charles Pratt, the

For the critical essay assignment I specifically chose the building called the Rufus Stillman House. The House is located in Litchfield, Connecticut and was built in 1950 by the architect Marcel Breuer. Marcel Breuer became acquainted with this couple, Rufus and Leslie Stillmen, in 1949. They became acquainted when Breuer’s work of his demonstration house that was on display in a courtyard at the Museum of Modern Art, which is located in New York. The couple hired Marcel Breuer to design a modern house for their property in Litchfield. The Stillman House was the resulting structure.

This handcrafted marble medieval-gothic hybrid style castle, which has three floors contain in the 4 walls structure. Once people enter the wooden arch door, they will be introduced to the two parallel brick walls that each consist of two pointed arches that leads you to the courtyards. The courtyards will be an area where the kids from the neighboring towns can play and people can relax while enjoying the sun coming from above. Above the main entrance, there will be a huge mural of the King and his family. The floors and stairwells will be made out of marble, and the walls will also have paintings all around. The first flight of stairs will be in the middle of the first floor. If we go beyond and behind the staircase towards this huge wall,

Viewing the façade of the building uphill from the ledge in between the two staircases leading down to University Place, one can see “how man [is] continuously working at a viable relationship with nature, adopting to major features, altering in productive ways” (Meinig 1979, p. 2). Right in the front, there is an arc of little green shrubs contrasting the light greyish, granite like concrete tiles. An arc of a memorial ledge mirrors this arc of shrubs as though the two arcs were to meet and connect into a circle. However, there is a gap in between separating the two and in the middle is a circular ledge that houses a bundle of flowers in the middle. Behind all this, there are two concrete lanes separated from each other by a strip of grass in the middle leading up to the entrances of the building. There are also two other strips of grass area bracketing the two concrete lanes but instead of plain grass, there are trees and lampposts lined up one after the other up the hill. Lastly, in the far distance, you can see how everything is leading uphill to the Hall of Languages building that is covered by green vines all over the façade as though it were blending in with the rest of the nature around it.

In the first half of the last century, the construction of massive public buildings became commonplace in the urban landscape. Neo-Classical styled architecture, in particular, was favored for federal buildings. USPS Fort Worth is not unusual in this respect, but the ornate, classically inspired details are singular in their fineness and in their charm. Who can resist smiling at the carved heads of the longhorns and shorthorn

The lighter in color and less decorated middle section has somewhat calming effect after the stimulating bottom section. The central part has five arched openings, but only the middle three contain windows. The side tower has two arched windows each. On relatively large area in this section we can see how the building material was arranged. The arrangement of darker and lighter material on the top of this section creates interesting pattern, which is different on the central section than on the two outside

The structure’s triangular shape also gives the building unique peculiarities, to which A. Berenholtz quotes: “appearing like a dangerously narrow tower at acute angles, a curiously thin extrusion from slightly more oblique angles, and a sturdy wide block from the sides” , vertical expression is also applied as the repetition of virtually identical floors to its cornices unifies a streamlined image, turning the façade difficult to grasp a sense of the Flatiron building’s actual height -as its visual appearance subtly accentuates and emphasizes its height. Daniel H. Burnham used trends such as French and Italian Renaissance influences seen from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, constructing the Fuller “Flatiron” Building in the Beaux-Arts style – built with a skeleton of steel and fronted with a façade of limestone and its terra-cotta cladding which “imparts a mystical quality, conjuring something form of an ivory tower in a fairytale” . Also originating from Burnham’s classical renaissance influences, Beaux-Arts style, is the Flatiron building’s concept which is based upon the classical Greek column. This is seen through the

The two-story Victorian addition features a simple square porch. The porch attaches to a two-story pediment, which connects to the addition’s siding that consists of yellow painted clapboards. The western façade features three bays on each story . These bays consist of two windows and a single door. Erected of red brick the foundation contains a French drain at its base. Concrete runs along the right side of the addition’s foundation. Located on the right side of the structure’s foundation are two six-by-six maroon painted windows with wooden frames containing maroon moldings. Wooden maroon louvers flank the sides of the

The structure of the building is actually inherently modern, built using a conventional steel framing system inset behind the façade. Structurally, the building employs tube frames in its framework, with the tubular columns tied with trusses at the top and bottom. As with all architecture in the postmodern tradition of the “decorated shed, the superficiality of this signage not only fails to detract form its effectiveness but reflects a deliberate prioritization of architecture’s affective capacity.

The architecture of this building is really extraordinary. The use of a series of arches to support and sustain each part of the structure make it unique; there is no doubt that Romans mastered the use of the arch however you can also appreciate the utilization of columns showing Greek influence as well as the appearance of a rectangular