around the country‚ but it was his visions for the ideal city‚ particularly as illustrated in his book The Metropolis of Tomorrow‚ that would earn him his fame and legacy‚ which still resonates today. Born in 1889‚ Ferriss earned his degree in architecture from Washington University (MO) in 1911. The following year‚ he moved to New York and worked for Cass Gilbert as a draftsman until 1915‚ when he set out on his own and worked as a free-lance delineator (an artist who creates renderings of other
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of its buildings were destroyed. The genesis of Washington architecture started with the McMillan plans which helped to restore downtown Washington and elect new buildings. Charles L’Enfant is a French engineer who was appointed by President George Washington to come up with new plans for the new city. Today‚ Washington dc is a force to reckon within the architectural domain. Washington is a combination of medieval and modern architecture. Change is inevitable. The dynamism of technology and the need
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The Bauhaus Design Movement The Bauhaus is one of the most important design movements in the twentieth century. It took place in Germany in the 1920’s and 30’s and is considered one of the birthplaces of the Modern Movement in architecture‚ design and art. The horrible experiences of WWI‚ poverty and inflation were strong influences. The movement known as Bauhaus was a reaction to social change and resulted in a purism approach with an emphasis in design on straight edges‚ smooth slim forms‚
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Allen) “A diagram architecture is not necessary an architecture produced through diagrams.... Instead‚ diagram architecture is an architecture that behaves like a diagram‚ indifferent to the specific means of its realization." (Par. 13) This paragraph points out the answer that beginners architecture students struggled to find. In the process of design‚ I try to find the potential through the translation from reality to the abstract diagram. While I wonder if the architecture should carefully be
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starring role towards urban transformation and revitalization of the site and the immediate extent area. Once the project was finalized‚ it turned out to be the emblem of the city of Bilbao in Spain. The structure is put together in Avant-garden architecture ordinarily an exemplification of the twentieth century. The structure forms a framework for the exposition of modern art. The architectural design is a masterpiece both domestically and abroad. The Museum building can be depicted as a masterpiece
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Do We Learn from our Mistakes? Architecturally speaking‚ I think we learn very little from our mistakes‚ as there are so many thousands of mistakes to make in architecture without repeating a single one. A child may learn not to touch a hot stove‚ but that is because the child receives an immediate response for doing so. This is not true with the mistakes we make as architects. Sometimes years go by before we learn the results of our errors; mostly our ethical errors. Most of the time this
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Geometry PJ Architecture and Geometry Architecture and geometry are perfect complements of each other they go hand to hand in so many ways let’s discuss some of these ways. Architecture has geometry written all over it if geometry never existed Architecture wouldn’t have existed either. First of all geometry is the reason that we can calculate and measure the sizes and shapes of certain structures for us to use. Geometry allows us pin point exactly how much more we may need or less ‚ without
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A proliferation of varying styles characterized the world of American art and architecture in the period between 1880 and the outbreak of World War 2 in 1939. In spite of the fact that these various styles often had little in common with each other‚ they are traditionally clusted under the label of Modernism. It is thus rather difficult to give a precise definition of modernism‚ one that encompasses all the characteristics of the aritists and architects who are commonly grouped under this
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| |Course |: |Integrated Building Systems | |Level |: |Bachelor of Architecture | |Credit Unit |: |2 | |Contact Hour |:
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Department of Quantity Surveying Mahallah Halimatus Sa’adiah‚ International Islamic University Malaysia‚ 53100 Gombak. E-mail: ain.nadiah@rocketmail.com Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the viewpoints of Kuliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design (KAED) students from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in regard to material waste generation in construction industry. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the factors for construction waste
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