Mock, Blog Post 9, Theory IAR221

To the top left is Job Charnock's tomb in Calcutta in India, where the English East India Company was expanding. Even though the tomb has no relation the high rise building it is pointing to, it represents colonial expansion and the transferring of ideas. The tomb represents geometry and a sentence to describe it is "Repetition of geometrical and linear stacking." The dome and the stacking of this building represent power. The lines divide the space well as they climb up to the dome. These structures from India have influenced the US, the lines divide up the space of this giant high rise. The stacking represents power and technology. Of course their are many regional differences here, such as material and purpose, but the style of stacking is the same.

The top left is America's (and the world's) first skyscraper in Chicago, build in 1885. It's pointing to Hong Kong's tallest skyscraper, built in 2003. It's almost like an arms race to see who can be the first and the best. In this example, America was first and Hong Kong is trying to make it better. That's pretty much what colonialism was, the stealing of ideas and improving them.

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