Weekly Forbes Contributor , Professor Larry Bell, founded and directs the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) at the University of Houston where he also heads the Graduate Program in Space Architecture.
Larry Bell is an endowed professor of space architecture at the University of Houston and the cofounder of several private space exploration companies.
For unlike basic space systems engineering, space architecture must inherently incorporate sociology, psychology, civilization, culture and aesthetics in its designs.
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Her images are inquiries into space, architecture, landscape and the medium photography entirely devoid of human subjects.
The US space agency is scheduled to retire its space shuttles next year, and has begun the development of a new human space launch "architecture" called Constellation.
The 747-8 Intercontinental applies interior features from the 787 Dreamliner that includes a new curved, upswept architecture giving passengers a greater feeling of space and comfort, while adding more room for personal belongings.
While the regal splendour of the pavilion (a classic of Victorian architecture) still dominates one end, the space-aged media centre hovers above the other.
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The stacked, shallow arches of the building set up a counterrhythm across the canvas, opposing the upward movement of the iron struts, while a descending arc of rectangular windows the darkest, most purely geometric and most precisely defined elements of the architecture thrusts Miss La La forward into space, emphasizing the instability of her position.
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The gallery basement is a black-box space filled with movable walls, where the architecture is meant to be invisible.
"It might sound crass, but I do think that the new architecture of the '90s, which conjured huge amounts of wall space, created a need for easily accessible pictures to fill the void, " he says.
He also called for a new European security architecture that would give Russia greater influence, particularly in the former Soviet space.
He was so admiring and covetous of the gifts of those who could produce the transforming miracle of space and structure that he went back to school to get his architecture degree, setting up his practice with a series of experienced and ever-changing partners.
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Pick up some milky sweets or eat a nice, hot curry off a banana leaf, and see some stunning examples of Tamil temple architecture at the Sri Mariamman Temple, whose four walls enclose both the holy space of worship and, to the faithful, the universe entire.
In the kitchen, large, granite-topped islands that seat four to eight people are popular, as are supersize showers with sitting space, says Jeffrey Lake, Standard Pacific's national head of architecture.
Foster is the founder of the London-based Foster and Partners architecture company which has recently won a competition to build Virgin Galactic's New Mexico Spaceport Authority Building for space tourism.
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