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    House was an established example of great modernist architecture of the twentieth century and interior design. It also one of his masterpiece and iconic design artwork. Philip Johnson took deep pleasure in his talent to put aesthetics at the centre of his design process, as his mention: The Glass House set out to change people’s way of life. My personal aim, and it was not the public’s nor the modern architects’ aim at all, was to show that modern houses can be beautiful. I only had one objective,

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    Progression of The Design Movement There are a variety of approaches in the history of interior design, whether it is the interior, architecture, furniture, design characteristic, concept, and history and social background. All of these approaches are a must to take it into consideration because they are the main principles of the art design. Moreover, one of the most important elements is the design characteristic. Design characteristic is what every single era is personalized in. It is also

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    Can modern architecture and traditional architecture concur? Nowadays, traditional ways of performing tasks are fading and very few parts of it still exists, now all types of machinery with the help of technology have been invented to make work easier for human beings. (7Ranchise 2011) Architecture has been divided into many categories to fit our life styles in a particular time at a particular place. (7Ranchise 2011) The main two well-known ways of recognising these are: Modern Architecture and

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    Starting a small business in Germany Abstract Small and medium enterprises are the vital part of Germany's economy and so the Government makes it easy for residents and non-residents to start and run a small business in any part of Germany. After considering whether a small business is perfect for you and your lifestyle, you can decide from the five different forms of business ownership. The next step is to choose an appropriate name for your business and then you can apply to the German Federal

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    Walter Ruttman

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    A secondary important figure in defining and examining the absolute film movement within Germany during the 1920s is Walter Ruttman. Unlike Richter he began as a student of architecture and graphic design, which shaped his identity as an experimental filmmaker and accounts for the prominence of shapes and lines within his films. He began his career as filmmaker directly after his release from a hospital in Berlin for treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by his experiences in WW1. His

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    of Warren Manning, While in Manning’s office, Dan learned a lot of European garden design. Dan was interested in designing in three dimensions and started to think in terms of volumes. He raised a thought that space which is often mentioned in architecture, could also be used and employed by trees hedges in landscape. In 1936 Kiley entered the landscape architectural program at Harvard University. Kiley and his classmates

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    Aesthetics Should Never Take Precedence Over Function From the early Greek temples of yesteryear, to the high-tech autonomous buildings of tomorrow, the question of whether the function of a building or its aesthetics qualities are more important has plagued the minds of architects around the world. Webster's II New College Dictionary (Please do not use the encyclopedia or the dictionary to open your essay--way too high school.) defines aesthetics as "The branch of philosophy that provides a

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    the Galerie der Künstler in Munich (1982) and producing his first works for a public space. Since then, Scheithauer with his art has been commenting on the legacy of minimal and conceptual art, greatly represented within collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Hünfeld, Museum of Concrete Art in Ingolstadt, the Forum Konkrete Kunst in Erfurt,

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    eye while Rotunda is built as an mulit-story architecture that the light source comes from the windows was in-built around the dome. Other examples are like San Antonio, Trieste, build by Pietro Nobile; Church of the Great Mother of God, Turin, build by Ferdinando Bonsignore; Church of San Francesco di Paolo, Naples, build by Pietro Bianchi. The similarities among these architecture is all was deeply influenced by Pantheon and have a similar architecture building,

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    one of the pioneers of now known as the modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland, and become a citizen of France in 1930. Career for five years, his buildings constructed in Europe, India and the United States.when he was young he love art so much,became older he went to paris learn architecture, but he had some disease,he had to choose another place to study, so he went to Germany, and meet a lot of famous person. And mention five point of ARCHITECTURE : 1:the pilotis elevating the mass off the ground

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