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    1 Latin America after Independence: Building a Postcolonial Society Course: 3609 Uconn Stamford Spring 2015 Professor Ricardo Raul Salazar Rey Email: ricardo.salazar-rey@uconn.edu Phone: 310-619-0354 Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2:30 to 3:00pm and by appointment. Office: 3.74 Class Meeting Place and Time Monday 6:00pm to 8:40pm Room 216 Course Description This course surveys the social‚ cultural‚ economic‚ and political history of Latin America from the independence period to the present.

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    centuries‚ the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome has had massive impacts on the buildings of modern America. Many aspects of the structural elements used are used in famous American buildings. Great ancient buildings like the Pantheon or the Parthenon are paradigms of Greco-Roman architecture at its finest‚ and very similar layouts and buildings are seen every day in America. These beautiful styles have survived for hundreds of years and are now pristinely recreated at American Government buildings

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    culture‚ it is also no longer the expression of our culture”. This move‚ which separates ornament and culture‚ links Modernist architecture to the culture of modernity. Reading this now two things emerge. The first is a statement of intent – Modernist architecture clearly defines itself in relation to culture. The second is a question – how today can the relation between architecture and culture to be understood? Despite the clarity of the Loos’s definition‚ this contemporary question has a persistent quality

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    function of a cordon sanitaire‚ observed and controlled as no-connection-zone between the Orient‚ where Belgrade‚ as it were‚ marked its end point‚ and the Occident‚ of which Zemun was the‚ first‚ even if modest and marginal‚ port of call. In the short period between the World Wars‚ with the unification of the Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia‚ when the river Sava ceased being a state border‚ various planning strategies for the urbanization of this terrain were elaborated. Common denominator

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    The architecture of a country acts like a mirror for understanding the way of living and also the developments of the place that have led to the creation of the country as it looks today. The architecture of a country gives an insight into a country’s developments over the years. Many times architecture also helps us predict what type of traditions have been followed in the country over a large span of time. The thesis mainly deals with analyzing whether the direction of development of architecture

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    Architecture of Rajasthan From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Nagda temple Māru-Gurjara Architecture (Rajasthani architecture) originated somewhere in sixth century in and around areas of Rajasthan. Contents   [hide]  1 Etymology 2 Development 3 Images 4 References 5 External links [edit]Etymology The name Maru Gurjara has its genesis in the fact that during ancient times‚ Rajasthan and Gujarat had similarities in ethnic‚ cultural and political aspects of the society. Ancient name

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    AR2224 Ideas and Approaches in Design Copyright © 2013-14 by Department of Architecture. Mr. Tomohisa Miyauchi and Mr. Roland Sharpe Flores‚RA. All rights reserved. Eye Reflecting the Interior of the Theatre of Besancon Drawing Ledoux‚ Claude-Nicolas‚ 1736-1806 “Between the carpenter’s weight strings and marking lines [is something] close to government and enlightenment.” Li Hua‚ 715-766 Hanyuandian fu (Rhapsody on the Enfolding-Vitality Hall) Ideas and Approaches in Design presents

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    The building in Renaissance architecture[ Despite its history‚ the building is seen as one of the great examples of the new style. Its more notable features include: • the attempt to create a proportional relationship between nave and aisle (aisle bays are square whereas nave bays are 2X1. • the articulation of the structure in pietra serena (Italian: “dark stone”). • the use of an integrated system of column‚ arches‚ entablatures. • a clear relationship between column and pilaster‚ the

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    Greeks have more than enough to brag about‚ but there is one thing that the Greeks did best in my opinion. This is the field of architecture. Architecture is a way of expression that has been used by many cultures and civilizations over thousands of years. The Greek culture is by far the most beautiful and mathematically advanced culture in the field of architecture in the B.C.E. era. For a civilization thriving in the years of B.C.E‚ they were almost incomprehensibly advanced. The

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    Early American and Colonial Period to 1776 American literature begins with the orally transmitted myths‚ legends‚ tales‚ and lyrics (always songs) of Indian cultures. There was no written literature among the more than 500 different Indian languages and tribal cultures that existed in North America before the first Europeans arrived. As a result‚ Native American oral literature is quite diverse. Narratives from quasi-nomadic hunting cultures like the Navajo are different from stories of settled

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