They conceived a structure with five stacks of staggered heights, resembling the long, slender fingers of a stainless steel hand.
Gaudí conceived a structure with iron pillars and marble and glass slabs, crowned by a large iron and glass roof, with a gas illumination system.
She conceived a nonhierarchical structure in which everyone would share jobs for equal pay, decisions would be collaborative, the collection would be temporary and the museum would be in a perpetual state of self-criticism.
Although formal mathematical theories about information only emerged in the 20th century, and one has to be careful not to interpret the Greek notion of a number in any modern sense, the idea that information was essentially a mathematical notion, dates back to classical philosophy: the form of an entity was conceived as a structure or pattern that could be described in terms of numbers.
Concerned with the development of housing in large cities, three architects at Aalborg University in Denmark set out to conceive of a structure that would address the needs of Rio's Favela Santa Marta, one the city's many underdeveloped slums.
| In 1988, Daniel Libeskind conceived a zigzagging sculptural structure he called "Line of Fire" to symbolize the persistence of the Jewish people through radically shifting circumstances.
The designer of Walt Disney Concert Hall has conceived a one-story office structure reminiscent of former industrial buildings common in El Segundo that are increasingly being repurposed as offices for businesses in creative fields.
A zealous, daring wire walker — the French word funambule is a more lyrical, as well as a somewhat more ridiculous-sounding term — he conceived a passion for the structures even before they were built.
The project included a church, hospital and school, and Gaudí conceived a quadrilobulate ground-plan floor structure, with catenary arches, parabolic towers, and hyperboloid windows.
Rather than conceiving the structure of our knowledge on the model of Euclidean geometry, with its basic axioms and derived theorems, these epistemologists favor a holistic picture of justification which does not distinguish between basic or foundational and non-basic or derived beliefs, treating rather all our beliefs as equal members of a "web of belief" (Quine and Ullian, 1970).
