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This is a photo of a house that I pass on the way to class every morning. It is a private residence on Clark Avenue and it is unlike any of its neighbors, which were brick homes built in the 1930s and 1940s. The house is one massive rectangle made of…

This chair was designed by Eero Aarnio in 1963 and was presented at the International Furniture Fair in Cologne in 1966. The chair name is Ball Chair, but most people at NC State refer to these chairs as the Egg Chairs. These chairs can be found in…

This is a bank building located in Cameron Village, a shopping center located in Raleigh, NC. The building is situated on the corner of a busy street.

It is a one-floor building with columns on the roof. In a post-modern style, it is an eclectic…

This is a house that is down the street from my apartment.

One should note that this house looks very different from the other homes in the neighborhood, which are mostly all a more traditional style. While the house itself is very wide, it is…

A postmodern brick building. While reading the description and learning more about postmodern architecture I began to get the sense that buildings that were designed for a specific purpose and were renovated for another would be considered as such.…

This house is located in the center of a residential area north of NC State's campus and its architecture stands out starkly against the other houses in the area which are more traditionally styled. Where Modernism was intended to be sleekly…

This is a building in Prague I saw when I went last summer. I believe this fits into the postmodernist category because of the nonfunctional adornments on the facade and the stacked roof. Postmodernism was a rebellion against the uniformity and…

This photo is clear about the point it wants to bring across. The photo is quite haunting in a sense but is also showing a sliver of hope. First, let's bring some context to the forefront and shed some light on this subject:

These are the bumper…

Since this week was focused on graphic design and included Sturken & Cartwright's chapter on perspective, I chose to look at the cover designs of two video games that depicted different types of perspective. On the left is the original Star…

This outside scenery appears gloomy yet emanates beauty due to the presence of the rainbow in the background. Near the bottom of the photo, there are windshield wipers and surrounding cars nearby on the road indicating that this scene was captured…