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  2. Metaphoric architecture - Wikipedia

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    Metaphoric architecture is an architectural movement that developed in Europe during the mid-20th century. [ 1 ] It is considered by some to be merely an aspect of postmodernism whilst others consider it to be a school in its own right and a later development of expressionist architecture .

  3. Mother to Son - Wikipedia

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    The mother in the poem uses a metaphor of a staircase to convey "the hardships of Black life" while also her progress and perseverance. [ 6 ] : 35 As the woman is climbing the stairs, she becomes almost comparable to a religious figure ascending into the heavens, yet remains simply human.

  4. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    An architectural term applied to a colonnade, in which the intercolumniation is alternately wide and narrow. Arcade A passage or walkway covered over by a succession of arches or vaults supported by columns. Blind arcade or arcading: the same applied to the wall surface. Arch

  5. Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 - Wikipedia

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    The song "Naked Girl Falling down the Stairs" by the Cramps. In the 1933 screwball comedy Three-Cornered Moon , when a struggling artist dating Claudette Colbert is evicted, his landlord slides a Duchamp-esque painting down the front stairs of the building.

  6. Missing stair - Wikipedia

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    A staircase with two missing stairs and a warning sign, where the structural problem has not been fixed yet. The missing stair is a metaphor for a person within a social group or organization who many people know is untrustworthy or otherwise has to be "managed," but around whom the group chooses to work by discreetly warning newcomers of their behavior, rather than address the person and ...

  7. Phenomenology (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The phenomenology of architecture is the philosophical study of architecture employing the methods of phenomenology. David Seamon defines it as "the descriptive and interpretive explication of architectural experiences, situations, and meanings as constituted by qualities and features of both the built environment and human life".

  8. Google Maps car captures man falling down stairs - AOL

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    The only person to see the incident was the Google Maps car driver. Ouch.

  9. Keystone (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The keystone (shown in red) of an arch Dropped keystone at Colditz Castle. A keystone (or capstone) is the wedge-shaped stone at the apex of a masonry arch or typically round-shaped one at the apex of a vault.