Sentences with phrase «on a human scale»

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He sees a garden - like countryside built on a human scale disappearing before mass and machine.

For me, all of his sculptures, including the room - size installations, operate on a human scale.

... The family understood in this way remains the first and principal building block of society and of an economy on a human scale.

For larger objects, that collapse happens more quickly, meaning that on human scales objects don't show up in two places at once.

The four portfolio «entries» below, we hope, provide some of these needed images — of what is possible in schools that place learning on a human scale.

Your process takes place very much on a human scale.

Residents want buildings on a human scale, not high - rises that will yield quick returns to developers looking to make a buck and then leave town.

and charm in one of the most animated zones of Venice, the sevices and comforts of a large hotel on a human scale.

I see similarities between your work and hers, because you often work on a human scale, you incorporate materials like wood and metal, and, in addition to freestanding sculpture, you sometimes hang your sculpture on the wall or from the ceiling.

EBWS prepares children for the future with its uniquely vibrant and well - rounded education that blends the unconventional and the traditional, reconnects children with the world, and educates on a human scale.

Writer - Director Mike Mills imbues 20th Century Women with an indie filmmaker's respect for reality on a human scale.

Made of shiny stainless steel and featuring painted dots or dot - shaped perforations, these immersive works seem created on a human scale.

No matter how big or complicated modern business may get, video can preserve our connections on a human scale

Not necessarily, physics at those scales is far stranger than anything on human scale.

Why did God think it better, to facilitate communication among men and women, for them to live in small huts on a human scale, with windows and streets, rather than on information superhighways?

They seem to be looking for something that we've lost in our culture — the notion of a city as a place where the population is mixed and interesting, and where life is lived on a human scale.

Despite their quite trenchant criticisms of the free market, Daly and Cobb (1989) and Preston (1991) are not against the market as such, provided its decision - making is decentralized and that it operates enterprises on a human scale.

But as they operate at present, both the free market and the state fail miserably in maintaining community on a human scale and with a human face.

The Olympics, for all their bloat, are still on a human scale.

In the AlloSphere, it's as if Marth's researchers are standing inside blood vessels, visualizing data on a human scale that is normally too small to see.

A second way would be to find a new kind of force, unrelated to either the electromagnetic or nuclear forces known to science, which would provide repulsion on human scales.

Although enormous on a human scale, the LMC contains less than one tenth of the mass of the Milky Way, and spans just 14 000 light - years — by contrast, the Milky Way covers some 100 000 light - years.

Describing wildfire as «one of the most basic and ongoing natural processes on Earth,» the authors call for a paradigm shift in the way society interacts with it, changing to an approach that achieves long - term, sustainable coexistence that benefits the planet's ecosystems on the landscape scale, while minimizing catastrophic losses on the human scale.

-LSB-...] High Schools on a Human Scale shows the huge power of small schools, perhaps the nation's fastest - growing reform idea.

You can weigh large pups on human scales.

Being able to jump out on foot and explore the world using teleportation on a human scale is a whole new experience.

Simmons discussed her new body of work and exhibition «Kigurumi, Dollers and How We See», open March 7th at Salon94, that uses Japanese Kigurami dolls to explore these themes on a human scale.

As Perriand's biographer Jacques Barsac explains, «the Free - Forms themselves demonstrated a poetic functionalism on the human scale in which each form was rigorously tailored to its use and its production method, while retaining a freedom of composition.»

Reproduction only, Bloustein, Edward J., Education on a Human Scale: A Program of Development for Bennington College, 1967.

This research aims to challenge this imperial representation of the landscape and captured the day - to - day interaction with the land on a human scale

In the courtyard of the Pavilion is the sculpture of Carol Bove, whose cerulean blue works of vertical and dimensional abstracted forms stand upright and address the viewer on a human scale.

Since opening on McKinney Avenue in 1994 as the first venue in North Texas where contemporary art of all disciplines could be explored under one roof, The MAC has presented art on a human scale, striving to make the challenging world of contemporary art relevant and accessible to new and continuing audiences.

Kahn's compositions are also on a human scale, both as a way of augmenting the viewer's physical relationship to the object, and also of the artist to his work: nothing exceeds the limits of what can be created by the human hand.

Michelangelo Pistoletto, Casa a misura d'uomo (House on a Human Scale), 1965 - 1966, Wood and enamel, 78 3/4 x 39 3/8 x 47 1/4 inches (200 x 100 x 120 cm).

The Jakobshavn Glacier is a monster on a human scale, but in terms of getting rid of the Greenland Ice Sheet fast it's one of a small number of pretty tiny slots.

Using creativity to innovate, we engage artists for their ability to evolve and amplify a creative language, communicating on a human scale the urgency of the global climate challenge.

Thirty years to establish a climate state seems a long time, as within that period there may be notable shifts to a number of different prevailing patterns of cold / warmth / wet or drought that, on a human scale affects agriculture and horticulture by impacting on what crops may be grown successfully, may affect the tourism season, may cause a consumer to use more or less energy in their home, and also impact on nature by affecting the populations of wild life and vegetation.

Hotel Il Mercante di Venezia: set between the Grand Canal, the Ghetto, Venice Casino and the Local Market, it offers the guest who seeks tranquility... Read more and charm in one of the most animated zones of Venice, the sevices and comforts of a large hotel on a human scale.

Hunt found a unique way to bring the landscape into his work on a human scale.

East Bay Waldorf School prepares children for the future with its uniquely vibrant and well - rounded education that blends the unconventional and the traditional, reconnects children with the world, and educates on a human scale.

Writer - director Mike Mills (Beginners) comes from indie filmmaking and imbues 20th Century Women with an indie filmmaker's respect for reality on a human scale.

The paintings are created on a human scale.

God's being, himself in his entirety, is far beyond anything I can comprehend... but the things he's doing, on the human scale, I can comprehend.

On a human scale, that's a tiny number — less than a billionth of a billionth of a gram.