Many ancient East Asian buildings are noted for their immense beauty and intricate design. We introduce a graphics modeling library based on a generalized procedural description we formulated to describe East Asian architecture. By setting the desired parameters, a user can create a building in any of the many different styles, such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean. Different building types, such...

From Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Disclosures: None. Received for publication March 26, 2008; revisions received June 5, 2008; accepted for publication Sept 1, 2008; available ahead of print Jan 27, 2009. Address for reprints: Prem Venugopal, MCh, FRCS, Department of cardiac Surgery, East wing, St Thomas’ Hospital, Lambeth Palace Rd, London SE1 7EQ, United ...

Middle Eastern countries are suddenly confronted with the problem of a severe loss of architectural heritage, which is the material manifestation of their own cultural inheritance and thus that of their identity, particularly under conditions of a sudden, rapid, radical and haphazard way of transformation as imposed over a society and its cultural geography by global impacts. This paper aims to...

During the latter period of the nineteenth century, developing industrial corporations attempted to bring order to their operations. These rapidly expanding companies, such as Pullman Palace Car, H.J. Heinz, Westinghouse, and Sherwin-Williams, saw the need to organize production, sales, and service in the competitive market place. They also showed some initial concern about employees’ disconten...

The legacy of ancient objects is the history that there was a civilization at time, such as kingdom which center social and cultural society. should be grateful kingdoms past can still appreciated today. As in architecture Keraton Sumenep Madura, it gets acculturation from various cultures, namely Madurese Chinese cultures. It possible palace carving art got touch China. Not only motifs are bea...