Problem The entering freshman engineering class, University of Detroit, fall, 1952, was given a number of tests which required a rather lengthy, sustained effort on the part of the students. The administration, scoring, ...

Detroit has always had a strong design heritage that goes beyond its architecture and into the fabric of everything it produces. This strong design sense has fallen off with the city, as it has fallen on hard times. Detroit ...

The struggles of Detroit’s most underprivileged citizens have been pondered by many, but truly understood by few. Some altruistic for-profit firms have taken steps to improve the standards of living for Detroiters suffering ...

The world is a heavily segregated place where we are first separated by the seven continents, broken down into many countries, then by cities, trickling all the way down to towns branching off into neighborhoods and ...

Jean Baudrillard begins to bring an arising situation to light when he speaks about the new modernism. The Pompidou Centre can be seen as an important example of an object or a building that has become purely an expression ...

Pre-Raphaelitism has a deeper significance and a fuller connotation in the field of art and literature than anyone thesis can hope to reveal and evaluate. Explanations concerning the word alone have been many and varied, ...

Urban boundaries exist in multiple forms. Interaction across these boundaries is typically unseen. Many forms of current architectural design reflect this isolated and individualistic feeling. Many contemporary buildings ...

Although seemingly contradictory, Nature and Culture are inextricably linked to each other, with modern culture wholly developing as a result of the natural physical world, which has in turn been affected by the culture ...