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  2. Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture - Wikipedia

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    Free design of the ground plan – commonly considered the focal point of the Five Points, with its construction dictating new architectural frameworks. [4] The absence of load-bearing partition walls affords greater flexibility in design and use of living spaces; the house is unrestrained in its internal use [2]

  3. Poster - Wikipedia

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    A poster is a large sheet that is placed either on a public space to promote something or on a wall as decoration. [1] [2] [3] Typically, posters include both textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly text. Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and informative. Posters may be used for many ...

  4. Load-bearing wall - Wikipedia

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    A load-bearing wall or bearing wall is a wall that is an active structural element of a building — that is, it bears the weight of the elements above said wall, resting upon it by conducting its weight to a foundation structure. [1] The materials most often used to construct load-bearing walls in large buildings are concrete, block, or brick.

  5. Mechanically stabilized earth - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the flexibility of MSE walls in design and construction, seismic testing conducted on a large scale shaking table laboratory at the Japan National Institute of Agricultural Engineering (Tsukuba City), showed that modular block reinforced walls, [3] and even more so geocell retention walls, [4] retain sufficient flexibility to ...

  6. Light reflectance value - Wikipedia

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    The Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design does not recommend a light reflectance value for contrast on signage with words or pictograms, but instead it provides that "characters shall contrast with their background with either light characters on a dark background or dark characters on a light background" in § 703.5.1 [3]

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  8. Stencil - Wikipedia

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    The holes allow the pigment to reach only some parts of the surface creating the design. The stencil is both the resulting image or pattern and the intermediate object; the context in which stencil is used makes clear which meaning is intended.

  9. Josef Müller-Brockmann - Wikipedia

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    Josef Müller was born May 9, 1914, in Rapperswil, Switzerland. [4] [5] He studied architecture, design and art history at both the University of Zurich at Gewerbeschule, [4] and Zurich University of the Arts (also known as Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich), where he studied with Ernst Keller and Alfred Willimann.