Essays on Architecture

Tadao Ando is a well-known Japanese architect born in 1941 in Osaka, Japan. He had a twin brother, and at the age of two, their parents decided to separate them making Tadao to dwell at his grandmother’s place (Tadao Ando, 2016). He labored as a boxer and a truck driver...

Architecture and Design: Evolution and Modernism Movements Architecture and design are some of the most evolutionary areas of human development. Analysis of modernism movements in architectural designs from Dada's Marcel Duchamp and DeStijl's Mondrian and Gerrit Rievelt concentrated usually on idealism in architecture, rather than objectivism which characterized preceding design approaches....

Details written about the cathedral to Santiago de Compostela is the pilgrim guide. Evidently, the guide gives a representation of different parts of the church. It aids the understanding of the readers of the church religious culture by representing verses of the bible in imagery. Most imageries used for the...

A non-inverting and inverting amplifier A non-inverting and inverting amplifier can be adjusted to have an approximate differentiator and integrator. Approximate differentiator and integrator circuits can also be used as high-pass and low-pass filter circuits (Huijsing, 2017). The purpose of the laboratory session is to analyze the operation of the differentiator...

Digital Architecture is a area of engineering which is embedded on the use of digital media in coming up with architectural designs. It is the believed to be the modern and distinct way of questioning and modeling in architecture. This technique uses laptop modeling, imaging, simulation, and programming in order...

St. Dennis Church: A Historical and Architecturally Significant Site St. Dennis is a Christian martyr and a saint in line with the traditions of Christians. He was said to have taken up his head after his beheading, and he paced six miles preaching salvation all the way. St. Dennis s head...

Gothic Architecture Gothic Architecture is a form of art in architecture that is gotten from church buildings that had been constructed before. But, Gothic architecture, unlike these church buildings, focused on the lighting and the height of the building. These church buildings focused more on the thickness and large of the...

Contemporary city life and space-saving furniture Contemporary city life needed the use of space-saving furniture. This type of furniture usually has two interchangeable features. For example, a chair that can be transformed into a table, and vice versa. Furniture of this type usually saves room and resources when you need just...

Profiling of the Material Environment and Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) A particular characteristic of a sustainable building is the potential to substantially minimize the environmental effects it creates. Such interventions include its potential to reduce electricity demand and to release other contaminants (Akadiri, Chinyio, and Olomolaiye 2012, p. 127). Furthermore, the construction...