Ever since I was little‚ I expressed energetic interests in architecture and art‚ ranging from my obsession with origami to countless trips to The Getty Center in Los Angeles to my admiration of the towering skyscrapers in New York City and classic Colonial homes in Connecticut. Additionally‚ I have been devoting a significant portion of my life studying classical piano since I was four years old‚ and I have earned many notable honors throughout my music career so far. Origami has been an integral
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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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and social justice. (Cradle) The architecture is an important part of our well-being‚ but if you take a closer look at the actual user of a dwelling compared with the studies Camilla Brunsgaard(Lecture 9) have researched in user behavior of the passive houses in Vejle‚ I also think that it is very important that users are briefed to use an energy efficient house so it will work as intended and through that be sustainable. So if you want to live in architecture where energy is one of the main things
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academic interests‚ purpose‚ objectives and motivation in undertaking this postgraduate study My decision to apply for the MArch at the Edinburgh College of Art is directly linked to my intended career plans. I wish to continue pursuing a career in Architecture‚ and I consider this degree to be indispensable as a means of acquiring those analytical‚ technical‚ creative and workspace skills and that theoretical and practical knowledge that will assist me with my ambition of achieving membership of the
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the city and you see all these amazing structures‚ but where did they come from. If you look at the some of the buildings in New York City‚ and look at the buildings from Ancient Greece you can see a pretty clear resemblance. The influence on the architecture in the world today came from those first major architectural accomplishments made by the Greeks. From the times of 600 BCE- 600 CE‚ classical civilizations have existed throughout the world. Classical civilizations are civilizations that had a
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Department of Architecture SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND ENVIRONMENT NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE AR1102 Architectural Design 1 Academic Year 2012/2013 Project 02 – The room and a ‘village’ Project 02 The room and a ‘village’ Understanding architectural language Using architectural language and Making architectural language Arguably the room or its approximation is the basic construct of an architectural space. How it is defined‚ enclosed and what elements are used to do this is the architecture
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Restaurant‚ Peter Eisenman’s Waxner Centre. This essay will explain the proportional system and deconstruction style of architecture‚ and fully discuss how proportional system may be used in deconstruction architecture through different examples of deconstructionist architect’s building. Proportional System Proportional system is known to be the ‘foundation of architecture’ (Frings‚ 2002‚ pg. 9). It can be defined as a system of measurement and scaling. The idea and principle of proportional
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If you are intrigued by buildings and architecture‚ a career as an architect may be a wonderful career option for you. Architects create‚ design‚ and construct the fabulous buildings that are an integral part of our lives. Architects are people that not only have a large amount of creativity and imagination‚ but a tremendous amount of technical knowledge as well. Training as an architect is a long process requiring extensive education but the results are well worth it. Becoming an architect requires
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appearance. (BJARKE Ingels Group ApS 2009 :23) This contemporary yet Modernist approach to urban housing is a result of the Modernist culture in Denmark that has been present since the second half of the 20th century where Denmark saw a rise in Modern architecture. In the 1960’s the state began to invest in industrial construction where precast and prefabricated building elements were used and as a result very high-rise housing blocks emerged to address the Modern Dilemma of rapid urbanization and therefore
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changed time and circumstance. These examples are the worthy resources to learn from them about their Spatiality (quality of timelessness)‚ Sustainability (resource management) as well as plurality (Sociocultural appropriateness). Why is it that architecture of yester year continues to inspire awe‚ even at times after functional obsolescence (i.e. step wells)? What are the spatial qualities that render them awe inspiring and experientially engaging across time? What makes them environmentally sustainable
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