object‚ inanimate or living‚ has an organic basis for its creation? Of course‚ the validity of such a grand statement should be questioned and so it shall be‚ through the deconstruction and analysis of the three given texts; ‘Living in a Jungle: Mies‚ Organic Architecture & the Art of City Building’ by Detlef Mertins‚ ‘The City and Geography’ by Volker Welter‚ and finally ‘The Social Architect and the Myopic Mason: The Spatial Politics of the Muséum d’Histoire naturalle in 19th Century Paris’ by
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Facts about this decade --- Population: 151‚684‚000 (U.S. Dept. of Commerce‚ Bureau of the Census)* Unemployed: 3‚288‚000 Life expectancy: Women 71.1‚ men 65.6 Car Sales: 6‚665‚800 Average Salary: $2‚992 Labor Force male/female: 5/2 Cost of a loaf of bread: $0.14 Bomb shelter plans‚ like the government pamphlet You Can Survive‚ become widely available Important Historic and Cultural Events 1950 - Pres. Harry Truman ( ’til 1952) approves production of the hydrogen bomb and sends
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thought to be most necessary and important things for ideas of human habitation to emerge. Therefore‚ those primal elements form the elemental foundation for all subsequent elaboration of thought. The German Pavilion was designed by Ludwig Mies van der rohe for the international exposition in Barcelona‚ represents architect’s attempt to reduce the constructions to simple and complex elemental principles. This building contains two horizontal planes which creates a space in between that is high
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Upon cross-examination and comparison‚ Le Corbusier ’s Villa Savoye and Frank Lloyd Wright ’s Guggenheim Museum have many similar attributes to them. Although Le Corbusier adamantly denied Frank Lloyd Wright ’s influence on his works‚ by examining the styles of the two architects‚ one can see similarities that cannot be justified by mere coincidence. However‚ since the Guggenheim was completed in 1959‚ after Villa Savoye‚ it could be also argued that Le Corbusier was the one who influenced Wright. Both
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Bulacan State University College of Architecture & Fine Arts City of Malolos TOA 123 [pic] 2nd Semester AY 2009‐2010 Arch. Godesil G. Lejarde Instructor TOA 123 Theory of Architecture 2 Arch. GGLejarde
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the representatives‚ who practiced with pragmatic response to the vernacular climate and geographic conditions of the Australian landscape. However‚ their works had alike implication of foreign movements‚ particularly the influence from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe‚ Jørn Utzon and traditional Japanese architecture. Sydney Ancher Grafting international characteristics from the visit of the 1931 International Building Exhibition in Berlin‚ adapted
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the Human Mind - condorcet 18. Nature… the anchor of my purest thoughts - wordsworth 19. Whatever was the beginning of this world‚ the end will be glorious and paradisiacal … - priestley 20. We can only hope for the absolute perfection of the human race. - condorcet 21. Encyclopedia : Education can…Wipe out all evils -diderot 22. I heard a thousand blended notes‚ While in a grove I sat reclined … - wordsworth 23. And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. - wordsworth
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with a new outlook. The aftermath of the conflagration caused Chicago to be one of the most popular cities. Tourist attraction and architecture are the main focus of Chicago. Later years from the Great Chicago Fire‚ architects Louis Sullivan‚ Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius hosted "World’s Columbian Exposition"‚ held in the White City of Gilded Age
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Coming to terms with modern architecture‚ we must read through such seminal statements through their sensibilities and societal myths which they exemplify. Now‚ we shall explore parallel themes to do with new myths of modernity‚ poetic expressions of technology‚ the reemergence of abstraction‚ and analogies between architecture and other realms such as minimalist sculpture‚ landscape art and nature. Architecture oscillates between the unique and the typical where the old and new may
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