Thesis Modern architecture is new ideologies of architectural that show up in many Western countries in the decade after industrial revolution I. It was based on the rational use of modern materials‚ the principles of functionalist planning‚ and the reject of what it is exists and miscellaneous decoration. This style has been generally designated as modern‚ although the labels International style and functionalism have also been used. In rudimentary architecture the human presence can seem subject
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"Architecture is the thoughtful making of space"‚ said Louis Kahn. What makes an architect is its ability to take a little bit of everything and create a beautiful of composition that blends with it’s surrounding yet stand out. Louis Kahn ‚ one of the great architects of all times showed us how a house can be harmonized with nature and united with the landscape. The fisher house by Louis Kahn is located in Hatboro‚ Pennsylvania‚ a small community close to Philadelphia. Hatboro was originally
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The exterior of the house is simple and looks like a house‚ and it is connected to the interior. For some elements outside of the house like the chimney‚ it is easy to tell where it is located. It’s usually on either sides of the house‚ but in the Vanna Venturi House’s case it is in the middle. There are different sizes of windows placed in the house‚ which are designed instead of having repetitive shapes of windows. Robert Venturi used the invention of having those asymmetrical windows randomly
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Alvar Aalto The figurehead of modernism and leader of bringing architecture back to the human scale that once was‚ Alvar Aalto is now an architectural inspiration to us all. Aalto did not use his architecture as a learning tool but more as a gesture toward the emotional and physical needs of man. His architecture was meant to enrich the lives of those it served. Aalto focused on context in site in relation to the human body. Forms‚ light and shadow were inspired by the Finnish forests Aalto grew
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As Michael K. Hayes comments in Architecture Theory since 1968‚ a typology to emerge in the mid eighteenth century was a return of architecture to its natural origins‚ an example of the primitive shelter. This return and respect of nature was interestingly enough occurring across art‚ literature and landscape design simultaneously and internationally. It was as if people were warily eyeing the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution and entered into a love-hate tolerance of the machine age with
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‘‘Design for the Real World’ is a book written by Victor Papanek and published for the first time in 1971. It has been distributed and translated into twenty diverse languages‚ it became one of the world’s most iconic and relevant book in design. The author approaches on his work‚ distinctive systems/strategies to create and develop a new item that responds to human needs and enhance our environments. Victor Joseph Papanek born in “Red Vienna” in 1927 and died in 1998 was an American architect and
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Kanvinde: Function With Feeling By arZan ⋅ April 7‚ 2010 ⋅ Post a comment Achyut Kanvinde passed away in 2002. He was in his time one of the giants of Indian architecture. As the principal architect of CISR he designed a vast body of institutional work over the decades. Kanvinde studies under Walter Gropius at Harvard in the Functionalist style of design. Himanshu Burte writes an interesting overview of Kanvinde’s work and thought philosophy in this article title “ Function with Feeling ”.
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Final Paper on the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum Formal System or Arrangement The museum was below the level of the city‚ which‚ given that it’s in the center of a geocultural triangle‚ makes it seem like the cultural foundation of the city. This idea is further supported since the museum was supposed to “let the inhabitants take their city back” and “get back their civic pride.” 1 There were steps that lead down to the entrance of the museum and in front of the entrance was an empty space called the
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Architect Patrick Hodgkinson‚ who worked for the likes of Alvor Aalto and Leslie Martin‚ designed the Brunswick Centre‚ often described as a ‘Superblock’ or ‘Mega structure’ located in the heart of Bloomsbury. Hodgkinson gained recognition for his completion of this building‚ which he inherited from Leslie Martin. The raw concrete bunker‚ built in 1968-1972‚ became one of the most controversial structures in London of the time. With Hodgkinson’s original design somewhat compromised‚ the project fell
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Lars von Trier propose that‚ beyond its traditional conventions of representation‚ architecture resides in the superimposition of space‚ movement‚ and events. The event‚ in particular‚ is the figurative origin of architecture itself‚ through which Tschumi proposes an architecture of difference and opposition rather than synthesis and totality. Narrative techniques—be they pictorial or cinematic—evoke the ability of fiction to produce an alternative form of critique. Bernard Tschumi was already widely
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