HISTORY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE 310 TEST #1 October 3‚ 2012 ESSAY ANSWER DUE beginning of class! 10/10/2012 ______________________ NAME 1. A How windows fit into a wall. In the old traditions of the revivalist architecture of the past (pre -1850)‚ there were no windows on the buildings. Instead‚ what people made in order to let the sun light pass through and
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The Bauhaus was a German school of design from 1919 to 1933. It was a movement that was strongly influenced by the outcomes of World War One and rejected the ideals of the past and embraced the age of the machine. By focusing on the materials and the eradication of superfluous decoration‚ the Bauhaus established a new ideal‚ which was‚ form following function. Through their manipulation of established and new products this enabled them to emphasise the very ‘materiality’ of the items they produced
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KAIST Modern Architecture [HSS374] Review paper The way that I look at Architecture 20120659 Lee-Kanghee Nowadays there are so many fantastic buildings. Like wearing trendy clothes‚ buildings boast a gorgeous appearance using high-rise‚ glass curtain‚ curved‚ peculiar shape‚ and etc. As if wearing a slightly different uniform‚ Modern Architecture bubbled up with high technology and ostentation just for show. However‚ architecture is built on land‚ and human lives in architecture. The architecture
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Starchitect of Post-Modern Architecture Architecture was the first style to push beyond modernist values and shift to post-modern values. Modern architecture followed a uniform style that appears in the de Stijl movement; which preferred order‚ horizontal/vertical lines‚ simplicity‚ sameness‚ universal form‚ and purism; meanwhile‚ the Bauhaus movement used industrial materials and simple geometric forms. The international style or what can be termed as present-day architecture followed the modernist
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Ologunebi This was Bauhaus when was produced with pre-industrial methods which included woodwork‚ weaving‚ and stained glasses. This made Gropius worried that the Bauhaus was not good enough and good enough for the market so he decided that the Bauhaus would only create designs for mass production‚ simplistic designs that can be essential to everyone. This caused him to fire Itten and employ artists like Wassily Kandinsky. Paul Klee and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy‚ who reflected more modern styles in their designs
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The Bauhaus Dessau How does the Bauhaus became historical? Had there been any sustainability proofs? The Bauhaus occupies a place of its own in the history of 20th century culture‚ architecture‚ design‚ art and new media. It became historical because at time when industrial society was in the grip of a crisis‚ the Bauhaus stood almost alone in asking how the modernization process could be mastered by means of design. It represented a belief in the unifying power of geometry. The building
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The Bauhaus was a German Art school that operated in 1919 through to 1933 created by Walter Gropius. There was many positive aims to the creation of his school of fine arts and crafts of different sorts‚ Gropius believed that “Architects‚ painters‚ sculptors‚ we must return to crafts! For there is no such thing as ‘professional art’. (Walter Gropius‚1919). The Bauhaus focused on two things mainly‚ one being the coming together of all creative people and secondly a dream of creating a school that
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ESSAY 1 Le Corbusier and Mies van de Rohe were two architects influenced by the contemporary movements of their time period. Le Corbusier’s architectural ideology was derived from the multiple techniques and styles he had previously encountered through study. His early designs were expressive of the “youth style” which was introduced to him by his instructor‚ L’Eplattenier. New technologies‚ however‚ began to influence his philosophies. Le Corbusier saw potential in concrete building systems
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Bauhaus is a German school of design established in Weimar in 1919 by Walter Gropius. Its aim was to bring people working in architecture‚ modern technology‚ and the decorative arts together to learn from one another. Realizing that mass production had to be the precondition of successful design in the machine age‚ its members rejected the Arts and Crafts Movement. The school developed a style that was spare‚ functional‚ and geometric. Bauhaus designs are highly prized today‚ but when the school
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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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