In a general sense, sustainability is about confirming that the quality of human life and the surrounding eco-systems will not be reduced in the short and the long terms, making sure that the capacity of [...]
However, it was during the 20th century that Australian architecture rose to a higher notch that led to construction of some of the most amazing building designs in the world today.
It is also obtained in the hill of the prehistoric volcano of Mont-royal.it is the mountain park in the centre of the Montreal City Hall.
Modern architects viewed the architecture of the 19th century as being severely bound to past styles which were one of the main reasons, they decided to invent architecture for the 20th century that expressed the [...]
Minimalism is a feature in architecture that calls for the use of the most fundamental features in the construction of an item or a building and should be seen in its design of it.
Built in the 1880's, the Eiffel Tower became the symbol of Paris and in the 1990's, the Spanish city of Bilbao became a centre of attraction because of the Guggenheim Museum.
This is because it abridges the meaning of an item and its being through the concepts of historical and current symbolism and realism while bringing out the in-depth socio-cultural aspects of the work.
Professor William Mitchell, a professor of 'Architecture and Media Arts and Science in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology', has written the book called "City of Bits", which deals with the relationship among internet, architecture and [...]
It is a fascinating, profound, based on thorough research book which main concern is the description of the movement of Situationist International whose main objectives were to undermine the conservatism of the Western world investigating [...]
The arts and crafts movement was formed to humanize the designs and the Australian architects were more bent on using English influenced materials.
The book concentrates on Safdie's vision of ideal cities based on the conventional practices of city planning and the revolutionary techniques of combining cities and suburbs, aimed at boosting mobility, flexibility and convenience.
This essay is devoted to the discussion of Hirst's analysis of architecture and power, specifically the scopic regime inherent in the panopticon and other modern buildings.
Unfortunately, upon the completion of construction, the Crown Casino faced much criticism due to the intent of the building and the external design as well.
Dwelling on the main prospects outlined in each source, all three authors influenced the modern shape of huge cities in America and overseas at present and with further implications for the city of the future.
He stresses the change of paradigm and the presence of violence that governs the dynamic, at times incompatible relationships within architectural objects determined by the human intrusion in them and reconsideration of function and form, [...]
As the style was widely spread, it is necessary to indicate its main features in order to be able to differentiate between this one and other styles and movements that existed in approximately the same [...]
People that came to the presentation of the Building and inauguration of Walter Gropius saw a tremendous cube made of light, glass, and regular forms which became a distinctive feature of the Modern design.
It means that "the rationalism of the machine with its aesthetics and the purity of mathematics with the purity of form" is the main formula of modern architecture.
All in all, it is vital to evaluate the features of the city in the 21st century, to work out the optimal plan for further movement toward the ideals of the city in terms of [...]
As a result, modernity is both a world of definition and one of ambiguity, full of static definitions at the same time that it's undergoing constant change, an appeal to the traditions of the past [...]
This information is moved from the camera in a digitized format to the laptop and eventually stored on the server for the engineers, architects, or project engineers to be used for determining the scope of [...]
Due to such works, a new concept, called California House, is appeared; the traditions of northern and southern California have considerably influenced the further development of the California House, and this is why it is [...]
Our task is to create the public setting for a global ritual of key quality of the middle of the twenty-first century with the involvement of different types of architecture. The sketch of the building [...]
John Ruskin is a well-known philosopher and architect of the Victorian Era who implemented a very interesting and picturesque vision of architectural trends in the book "The Seven Lamps of Architecture".
Dior building is one of the most splendid and designer houses in the world belonging to the fashion guru Christian Dior.
The major influence of Architectural Concepts and the construction methods have influenced the Residences and the lifestyle of the people. The different elements and design principles meet with the Puginesque Principle of design and interiors [...]
From the Stone Age era through to the end of the Gothic era, the beliefs, rituals, as well as cultures of societies, drastically changed thus affecting the area of architecture as well as architectural designs4.
As many of us perceive that digital architecture is a faction, however, it is a way that helps us know and understand and bonds various efforts to develop the benefits of computers in architecture, moreover [...]
It was the design of Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, who was considered one of the most celebrated and controversial architects of his time, yet the difference between when it was designed and when it was [...]
The arts and crafts done as well as the structure of graves and the accessories made all add to the information about the systems prevailed at the time of making of those cathedrals.
In the performance of their jobs, structural engineers are generally responsible for ensuring that the design achieves the goals of the project, guarantees a standard level of safety and that the project will creatively and [...]
The architectural profession in the future, regardless of the technological development and the tools used, is held by man's creativity. Undoubtedly, in the near future computer technologies will begin to play a bigger role in [...]
The church is named after Saint Francis, who was born and died there and was the founder of the Catholic branch known as the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. The floor and the pews of [...]
The raised platform is the foundation for straight walls leading to the golden dome, which is mentioned in the shrine's name and is considered the central element of the structure.
The emergence of the school is a significant event in the history of Chicago as it marks the rebirth of the architecture.
The essence of the savings is the use of modeling to organize a more productive exchange of information during the design process. With the BIM approach, the quality and efficiency of work will rise to [...]
Tribune Tower, which was designed in the 1920s by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, is one of the clear examples of works of the first Chicago School of architecture known for being a [...]
The emergence of the school is a significant event in the history of Chicago as it marks the rebirth of the architecture.
The building is aligned on a grid it shared with the rest of the campus. That serves to give the building a durable and functional presentation characteristic of modernism and brutalism.
Lever House capitalized on the provision that if the building occupied a quarter of its lot or less, the setbacks were not necessary.
The main idea, to which the article was devoted not so much, as the conceived construction project, lies in the desire of the creator to perpetuate the postwar architectural art.
The Colosseum is one of the famous examples of Roman architecture and one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Aqueducts were built in the City of Rome and in different parts of the Empire.
Many authors have brought out the issues of architect of the future in their books. These are the apparent incontrovertible governance of the market judgments and a rise of globalization and information society.
One rather outstanding theory is the one proposing the use of ramps in the construction of the Pyramids. In this theory, Herodotus proposes that the stones used to construct the pyramids were lifted using a [...]
At the center of the large building is a well that the Prophet dug a well to have a continuous source of water.
That of Lloyds bank is in capital letters while that of Northern Rock is in small letters. Semiotic analysis of the architectural aspects of these banks can help make clear how socio- economic relations and [...]
Clerestory windows were the most outstanding interior feature of this architecture, and had the effect of illuminating the interior of the building so that the entire expanse of other features was well highlighted.
It has been pointed out that the climax of the pyramid construction was at the beginning of the third dynasty up to the sixth dynasty.
Most of the structures made from this architectural style have wide and expansive space like that of the Egyptian pyramids. However, the term "Gothic" is used to describe styles of masonry and architecture that assumed [...]
The book provides the extensive and detailed explanation of the history of architecture that is featured with the extensive development of architectural principles and traditions.
The Green Lake Branch is one of the libraries built in the Mission style of architecture. Another element that makes us think that the Green Lake Branch is performed in the Mission style is the [...]
He has rather an ordinary background, not the one of a millionaire's heir, and neither poverty that rose from the ashes to the top of the modern world.
This place is the reflection of cultural and religious values; it is the mirror of the spiritual treasure of humanity inspiring every tourist and opening the greatest symbols of ancient and modern culture.
The Turkish tiles and ceramics came up in the Uighurs of the 800s and 900s. There was as well a difference in the forms of these tiles.
According to the history of this building and the transformations of the last one, it is clear that Durham Cathedral fits into the context of every time period it existed.
The movement of the wind is very difficult to predict and modern architects take this factor into account when they develop structure of the building as well as ventilation system.
This building is the heart of the city designed by Brunelleschi and di Cambria in 1462; the towers of the cathedral could be seen above the city being a king symbol of Florence during the [...]
As the most prolific work of architecture, the National Air and Space Museum is considered to be one of Washington DC's most important displays of the current modern architecture.
In aspiration to achieve new blossoming of aesthetics of architecture and in poetizing this major sphere of human activity lies the key to disclosing the creativity of Le Corbusier - the great master, whose life [...]
It is considered, that chaos does not have the center, that is why the existence of the centralized system is associated with the global order and ideal arrangement of the cosmos.
There are quite a number of similarities cited before the feature of the 2 building that is the temple of Zeus and the Djoser Pyramid.
But generally, it is significant to define enterprise architecture as the logical organization for business processes and Information Technology infrastructure that signifies the relation and standardization requirements of the operating structure of the firm and [...]
The structure of the temple is relatively simple and was designed to serve the purpose of being a permanent showcase of the medium of sculpture used during the time of its construction.
Gopnik and Varnedoe were returning from a lecture by the late critic Reyner Banham, who had spoken on the way in which the "low" construction of American grain elevators and factory buildings had been taken [...]
The assumption is that the more rationality, the more order there is and the more order in society the better it will function.
In 65-75 AD, a temple was constructed by the king's springs for the Roman and British goddesses, this was before the development of the bath and it had a lead-lined reservoir, but this was built [...]
History reveals that art has not limited itself to a particular form i.e, music and paintings, instead, its awareness of the lack of stylistic and expressive homogeneity in works of the period has developed in [...]
One of the major causes of the abovementioned twists has been the commencement of Buddhism in the country, which was greatly influenced by the socialism from China."Beasley believes that "by the eleventh century the Chinese [...]
Another challenge that skyscraper architects have to face is the peoples need to have a sense of place in a building.
This was symbolic of the reverence and fear attached to the actual perception of a cathedral As the oldest and one of the most important features of Christianity and medieval England, the Canterbury Cathedral has [...]
Modern architecture was given the upper official hand resulting in the architecture of the twenties. This was the period of the revival of architecture and was developed in Imperial Russia.
There is no denying the importance of the fact that architecture is not only the aggregation of a given level of techniques, engineer capacities, approach to design, materials and form but what is more important [...]
In general these improvements correspond to the agenda of the Rethinking Construction report and demonstrate signs of willingness to make changes in the industry's culture, identify and exchange best practices, as well as improve competitiveness [...]
The individuality of every element present in the building was one of the main ideas developed by Renzo Piano and reflected in Stravinsky's fountain and Pompidou Place which attract the majority of tourists and ordinary [...]
The Forum of Trajan building architecture forms the structure of Roman city building construction/ The Forum of Trajan in Rome, built at the commencement of the second century AD, is one of the most remarkable [...]
Actually, the process of thinking takes place when the author is working over his or her work, whereas when the architect looks at the work, his or her rich imagination starts to work.
The Williamsburg warehouse is simple and sublimity at the same time; the grandeur of its scale strikes the viewer and makes the Williamsburg warehouse a zest for tourists. The building of the Williamsburg warehouse was [...]
The influence of the Nazi regime on the Avant-Guarde art in general and on architecture in particular with the style of the architecture the Third Reich implemented that distanced itself from the modern style that [...]
This paper will try to analyse the role streets and squares, plazas or piazzas have played in the cultural life of cities, provide the importance of 'shaping the site' and room-like spaces in 'traditional' city [...]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art which is located at the 5th avenue in New York is one of the biggest museum with a many different types of paintings ranging from American Decorative Arts which has [...]
The floorplan of the church takes on the basic shape of a Latin cross, with a rounded upper end and two short transepts that make up the arms of the cross. The doors of the [...]
The Brooklyn Bridge stretches over the East River connecting the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The plans to cross the East River date back to the beginning of the XIX century.
To understand the extent to which the construction of the dome was important for the citizens of Renaissance Florence, one should start with the description of the social and cultural background of the time.
And the assumption of the "humiliation" of symbolic buildings in nineteenth-century eclecticism has shaded them to the assessment of the representative building along freeways.
In addition, the creation of a museum incorporating critical elements of the Assir architecture will help the Assir region to promote the principles of culturalism as the idea of learning about other cultures and developing [...]
Over the past few decades, the decrease of ecological state and the level of pollution forced the global society to revise the conception of modern construction.
During their career, they managed to contribute to the development of diversity and pluralism in the world and Australian architecture5. Curved forms along with lines and squares contribute to the creation of a new image.
The duo of American architects created a number of buildings that remain a part of the city to this day, including the Newman College and the Capitol Theatre.
In the world of architecture, it means that we will be seeing fewer small firms on the horizon and more loners in the face of designers, who chose to be independent.
According to Petermans and Pohlmeyer, subjective well-being is an emerging topic of research in the field of design, although, no consensus has been reached in the scientific area as to what represents the essence of [...]
The building of Newman College is one of Griffins' creations that perfectly reflect the peculiarities of their style. The building of Newman College has numerous unusual forms and shapes that contribute to the creation of [...]
There are three unit types: single-orientation unit, where all windows are looking in the same direction, double orientation unit, open-ended, and the double-orientation unit, 90.
As the net-to-gross ratio measures efficiency in speculative buildings to weigh initial costs against future income, the author demonstrates a need to find a better equation to combine added value and the efficiency factor with [...]
This decision preconditioned the future of the whole project and contributed to the appearance of the unique view of the Salk Institute that is now recognized as an outstanding example of modern art.
The key to a successful public building in the form of its design, and the more thoroughly the concrete form and purpose of a particular construction are, the higher the chance is that the population [...]
The Gothic style came in the stead of the Romanesque style in the middle of the 12th century. The cult of the Virgin emerged in the Middle Ages and influenced Gothic society by shifting the [...]
The essay goes further to analyze the architectural attributes and uniqueness of the artwork. The conclusion gives a succinct summary of the paper and the relevance of this building to contemporary society.
Therefore, in Boston, one of the main approaches in support of retrofitting existing buildings can be the identification of the first targets and soliciting the opinions of the population about the importance of the chosen [...]
No structure can be designed and built without the help of architecture engineering. In recent years, architectural engineering has become the epitome of design and functionality.
During the trip, it became evident that the architectural styles and general artistry reflected in the creation of churches and mosques, as seen in France, Italy, and Istanbul, are a direct reflection of how religious [...]
The best disposition for architecture is to engage in a social project by referring to the rich heritage of this discipline and rediscovering the values that underpinned the practice of architecture.
The place has been designed in an Islamic style and it is easier to tell the functional aspect of the place just from the design.
The purpose of the construction of most of the pyramids was that they were to be used as tombs. The pyramids of Egypt refer to the stratification of the Egyptian social classes.
Therefore, this response will put less criticism on the article other than attempting to give an extension of the work to compromise more rich reading with texture as the value shifting and methods that inform [...]
The main idea of this introduction is to provide the reader with background information about the situation which has happened with architecture in the modern world and to inform the reader about the peculiarities and [...]
Coming through the palaces, I was surprised by the emptiness of the first floors of the buildings, however, I was told that water and dampness were the reasons for this.
The bifurcation of scholarly opinions on the place of modernity in traditional Islamic building design is a testament to the complexity of the issue.
The first thing a visitor driving up to the Ohio Statehouse for a tour will notice is the vastness of the estate.
The bifurcation of scholarly opinions on the place of modernity in traditional Islamic building design is a testament to the complexity of the issue.
Nevertheless, it is possible to say that muqarnas design is created with the help of a limited number of geometric elements that are simple and uncompounded.
Hence, the essence of the paradigm's conceptualization of the creative process, in general, and the role of a designer, in particular, "The artist had to function as a sort of mediator between formal invention and [...]
Viewing architecture as an art form, Loos took Sullivan's principle to its extreme and stated that "the building's identity resides in the ornament".[2] Despite the fact that Kantner Bar and Steiner House, which are two [...]
In this light, it is crucial to examine the extent to which the role of the architect failed to the extent of leading to the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
Regarding the goals and essence of sustainable architecture, it is possible to say that architects want to investigate their possible contributions to the discussion of environmental challenges and changes they could offer.
The Mark Twain House, built by Tucker in 1873, is a clear example of the Gothic Revival architecture, popular in the second half of the nineteenth century.
The inside of the building was created by Loos, who at the time was disenchanted with the style of other contemporary architects and wanted to present a modern look different from the popular trends of [...]
For instance, the architecture of numerous banks reflects the atmosphere of the times it was built in, and allows to trace back the history of the construction.
One of the assumptions is that architecture is socially emancipatory and not just one that responds to the needs of society.
The house was occupied by the late businessman who lived in Indianapolis in the 1920s, thus the name of the architectural work.
The trend, which Reel criticizes in her quote, is the traditional architectural elements that have been popular in the re-invention of cities in the Middle East.