In an essay akin to the clean methodology he is in praise of that one has derived from advances in technology‚ Francastel states that there are three phases of how art and architecture as art has developed in light of advancements in technology. In the first phase‚ he details how people were generally reluctant to create new forms‚ instead using new technology to reinforce and recreate older styles. The second phase‚ he begins to contest Giedion in his thought that America was the one at the forefront
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Roberto Burle Marx was a landscape architect born in São Paulo on 4th of august 1909 to a Brazilian mother and a German father. Burle Marx first developed an interest in the landscape while in Germany studying painting‚ where he visited the Berlin botanical gardens and from there took an interest in Brazil’s native flora. Burle Marx returned to brazil in 1930 where he went to school at the National School of Fine Arts in Rio. Burle Marx started collecting plants and flowers around his home in Sao
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The notorious architectural style known as Brutalism grew out of the rigorous principles of European Modernism and dominated British architecture in the 1950s and 60s. Brutalism gave us the 1960s tower blocks and estates that are now so unpopular with the public. Britain suffered a large amount of destruction during the Second World War and its towns and cities needed rebuilding once the conflict had ended. Post-war reconstruction had to be achieved quickly and cheaply: this was not a time for esoteric
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The Einstein Tower: An Expressionist Landmark Introduction Erich Mendelsohn began his creative architectural sketches while standing guard in World War I‚ along with many other famous architects such as Mies van der Rohe‚ Gropius‚ and Le Corbusier. What was it about standing guard between life and death that enticed a certain creative architectural vision? Maybe it simply provided an ability to envision a world unlike the one being occupied or maybe it reminded these young men of the preciousness
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INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN Cohort 2010 - 14 Academic Year 2013 – 14 Name: SHREYA SETHI Date: 9 0CT 2013 Module: Research Paper 1. I want to study /investigate - Does the use of Traditional Styles in Contemporary Architecture still prevails or has modernism widely influenced contemporary architects? *NOTE:- As this is an argument concerning the whole world‚ so to narrow it down I can take a specific place like Delhi and can subdivide it into a specific part of Delhi like South Delhi
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Texture – the rose seilder house is a modernist architecture masterpiece‚ to which would cater to a relaxing lifestyle in a quite suburb‚ while maintaining a creative modernist design toward the house. Colour – the colour main colour of the rose seidler house is white with many creative pieces of its bold coloured palettes. Materials - laminate‚ stainless steel‚ large-scale glass panes‚ plastics and also natural and textural surfaces of interest such as wood panelling Scale – Dimensions
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How was Ames room invented?. In 1946 it was discovered by adelbert ames jr.who first constructed such a room wich he got the materials in around the 19th centaury. There are two illusions in this room. There is where it seems to be that he room is squared…and the other where one person seems to shrink at a tremendous rate but still standing at the same distance. How is that possible? When you look into an ames room (through the peephole) everything seems to be normal and cubic. But in reality
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Occassionally in the course of my research of buildings in our area‚ I come across a familiar name. Last week exactly that happened. In looking into the history of 35 East 9th Street‚ I found that it had a famous resident at one time‚ Hugh Ferriss. For those who aren’t familiar with the name‚ you probably are familiar with his work. Ferriss was the master draftsman of his time of the American metropolis‚ both real and ideal. In the course of his career‚ he rendered hundreds of buildings and
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Baur’s Pharmacy was a household name in Terre Haute for nearly a century. It was founded by John Jacob Baur‚ an emigrant from Zurich‚ Switzerland in 1866. The original business was located on the southeast corner of 7th and Wabash. It was a handsome three-story brick structure‚ 50’ x 120’‚ beautifully furnished and widely considered as one of the most attractive in Western Indiana. Especially noteworthy was Mr. Baur’s work ethic. In 1880‚ Samuel Barnes Gookins‚ journalist‚ lawyer‚ politician and
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Alvaro Siza designed great contextual architecture that is responsive to topography‚ light and the basic resources of the region with a strong deference towards local material and would create simplistic forms which were grounded in i the form of specific topographies. Siza commonly stuck to the roots of tradition of the Portuguese style and wished to explore an archaic and timeless sense of space‚ which had nothing to do with modernism at all‚ but which relied on ii geometrical schemata
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