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    Fallingwater House executed by Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater is as one of Wright’s greatest masterpieces History The house belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Kaufmann a wealthy couple from Pittsburgh that owned a fashionable department store. The couple loved certain spot in the mountains named Bear Run where they often escaped on weekends to be in touch with nature. They used to camp there until they finally decided that it was time to built a proper home. They were attracted to Frank Lloyd Wright organic

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    THE DESIGN PROCESS Faculty of Architecture‚ Delft University of technology Strategic Architectural Design Development (SADD) Msc 5‚ Chair of Materialization 1st Tutor (A): Ir. Maarten Korpershoek 2nd Tutor (BT): Ir. Huib Plomp External Examiner: Dr. Ir. Ana María Fernández Maldonado Student: D. Kaatee (1401475) Date: 07 March 2013 Preface This paper is part graduation studio SADD (Strategic Architectural Design Development). In this document the focus will be on showing the way of working

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    Insula In Ancient Rome the buildings referred to as Insula were as common as the modern apartment building. In Roman architecture an insula is a Latin word that means island. An insula was a kind of apartment building that housed most of the urban citizen population of ancient Rome‚ this included class types of lower or middle-class status. The wealthy families lived in an apartment called a domus‚ they were large and made for single-family residences. These two kinds of housing were intermingled

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    such as those in art‚ architecture‚ sports‚ government‚ and education. One accomplishment that the Greeks have made has to do with the art. Arts and architecture had become a way of living for ancient Greece. Because Grecian life was dominated by religion‚ Greek temples became the first of the Grecian architectural structures. They happened to be the biggest and most detailed temples of any other religion. These structures were built to worship the Olympian gods. The architecture of these temples were

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    Donald Summers January 13‚ 2013 AH1010: Shaw Modern Changes Brought in at Neolithic Times During the “New” Stone Age‚ also known as the Neolithic Period‚ art and life in general began to change drastically for humans. Many new onsets began to bloom‚ for example humans of this time period had begun to live in single locations versus before they were nomadic hunter-gatherers. This new life introduced new challenges and new opportunities. Within this paper I will discuss three Neolithic Locations

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    Systems Network Architecture (SNA) is IBM’s proprietary networking architecture created in 1974.[1] It is a complete protocol stack for interconnecting computers and their resources. SNA describes the protocol and is‚ in itself‚ not actually a program. The implementation of SNA takes the form of various communications packages‚ most notably Virtual telecommunications access method (VTAM) which is the mainframe package for SNA communications. SNA is still used extensively in banks and other financial

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    Sustainable Architecture for a Sustainable Future Our environment today suffers from many issues. The most important one from a constructor’s point of view would be the resources depletion problem. Freshwater resources are declining‚ the soil is loosing its fertility‚ and there is a crucial shortage in basic minerals such as zinc‚ copper‚ and phosphorus. These deficiencies would definitely lead to a slowdown in construction growth. According to Rehan Ahmed (2012) construction is the less sustainable

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    Kanghua Chen Dance 270 Baker‚ Janice A 2/18/2013 Modern Dance Summary Modern Dance is tradition of theatrical dance unique to the 20th century. Modern dance flourished in areas that lacked strong ballet traditions‚ such as in the United States where ballet companies were imported from Europe. Although modern dance originated in Europe‚ by 1930 the United States had become the center for dance experimentation. Many early modern dances were miniatures—solos of highly compressed effect. They

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    Pamphlet of Computer System Architecture (LO3) KEY SYSTEM COMPONENTS: Von Neumann architecture- Model for designing and building computers‚ based on the following three characteristics: * The computer’s four main sub-systems: * Memory * ALU (Arithmetic/Logic Unit) * Control Unit * Input/output System (I/O) * Program is stored in memory during execution. * Program instructions are executed sequentially. VON NEUMANN ARCHITECTURE MEMORY SUBSYSTEM: * Memory

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    Table of Contents Introduction 2 Physiologically–psychological Factors 2 Personality typology in traditional and modern temperament theories by Krechmer and Sheldona 2 Fluid in the Body and Temperament by Hippocrates 4 Features of the Higher Nervous System Through Stimulation and Deceleration by Pavlov 5 Extroversion and Introversion by Carl Jung‚ Diagnosis of Types of Temperament by Eysenck 6 Socially-psychological Factors 7 The concept and components of socialization 7 Leadership theorie 8 Approach

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