The others were in vernacular Italian, and these were often ebullient, concrete, and dramatic — Neoplatonic, by Rowland's definition.
Making what are, essentially, spiritual events concrete and dramatic without resorting to allegory or mystical symbolism is, of course, fiendishly difficult.
As Brutalism, in particular, has reached the age at which its structures could be landmarked, advocates and historians have to articulate, in city after city, the charms of concrete and dramatic shadow.
Isn't this kind of thinking — worldly and personal, abstract and concrete, essayistic and dramatic — exactly what the novel is for?
The deliberate linking of concrete to these sudden and dramatic transformations of the 20th century has associated concrete with the politics of the left, rather than of the right.
Composed of strong, simple geometric forms, with unornamented concrete or wood surfaces and dramatic natural illumination, Kahn's grandly severe and intriguingly layered architecture masks the limitations of computer graphics that would be cruelly exposed in trying to simulate a curvaceous Rococo chapel swarming with plaster putti.
It's white concrete, 30 feet high, perforated, arching and dramatic.
Vygotsky's creative and dramatic journey is no less important than the concrete results of his research.
The bids came in 10 percent above the funds approved, with steel the most notable, but concrete and petroleum-based products also showed dramatic price increases.
The romantic and dramatic esthetic of structural power, as in the soaring concrete pylon of Eero Saarinen's 1864 Dulles Airport, is a recurring theme.
June 21 , 1891Sondrio, Italy January 9 , 1979Rome, Italy Pier Luigi Nervi, (born June 21 , 1891 Sondrio, Italy died Jan . 9 , 1979Rome) Italian engineer and architect, internationally renowned for his technical ingenuity and dramatic sense of design, especially as applied to large-span structures built of reinforced concrete.
