The Einstein Tower: An Expressionist Landmark Introduction Erich Mendelsohn began his creative architectural sketches while standing guard in World War I‚ along with many other famous architects such as Mies van der Rohe‚ Gropius‚ and Le Corbusier. What was it about standing guard between life and death that enticed a certain creative architectural vision? Maybe it simply provided an ability to envision a world unlike the one being occupied or maybe it reminded these young men of the preciousness
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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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Curtis‚ William J R.‚ Modern architecture since 1900. London: Phaidon Press‚ 1996. Carlson‚ Allen‚ Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature‚ Art‚ and Architecture. London: Routledge‚ 2000. Franz Schulze and Edward Windhorst‚ Mies Van Der Rohe: A Critical Biography‚ New and Revised Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press‚ 2012. central city. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International Press‚ 1985. Lehrer Steven‚ The Reich Chancellery and Fuhrerbunker Complex: An illustrated
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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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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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GEOFFREY SCOTT AND ARCHITECTURAL MODERNISM 2 3 Introduction In Geoffrey Scott’s book The Architecture of Humanism (1914) formulates a series of arguments against a number of theoretical positions. Scott identifies these theoretical positions as fallacies underlying architectural theory which is not proper to architecture. The four types of fallacy he distinguishes are the ‘Romantic Fallacy’‚ the ‘Mechanical Fallacy’‚ the ‘Ethical Fallacy’ and the ‘Biological Fallacy’. This paper is to
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The Industrial Revolution and The Bauhaus The Industrial Revolution‚ which began in England around 1760‚ led to radical changes at every aspect in architecture. The growth of heavy industry brought a flood of new building materials such as cast iron‚ steel‚ and glass with which architects and builders devised structures undreamed of in size‚ form‚ and function. New types of buildings such as rail road stations‚ warehouses‚ exchanges‚ shopping malls‚ exhibition halls were required in the rapidly
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Analysis of acropolis The significant recorded history of western architecture starts in ancient Egypt. Numerous of giant scale of figural objects stand along the Fertile Crescent. After Egyptian‚ around 5th century‚ the Greek began to construct their own city. When they took a look at what did their Egyptian ancestor did. Some elements were remained‚ some changes occurred. One of the most condense collections of all the dialects between Egypt and Greece happened in the capital of Greece - Athens
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