The Third Coast‚ Thomas Dyja writes about the leading persons like Mies van der Rohe with the new hope and love
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Cultural context In this essay I will be discussing the architectural qualities of the ‘Farnsworth House’ by ‘Mies Van Der Rohe’. Mies Van Der Rohe was born in Germany in 1886 and died in USA in 1969. He managed to complete projects such as ‘Commonwealth Plaza’‚ ‘860-880 Lake Shore Drive apartments’‚ Crown hall’ and ‘Seagram Building’ in which the structure for all was out of steel and glass. (Franz SCHULZE 2004:294) It could be said that architectural qualities can be the set of qualities
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PROJECT: Chicken Point Cabin LOCATON: Chicken Point‚ Idaho‚ U.S.A. OWNER: Unknown ARCHITECT: Olson Kundig Allen Architects CONSULTING ENGINEERS: Monte Clark Engineering CONTRACTOR: Doric Creager‚ MC Company‚ Spokane FUNCION: Residential Architecture PROJECT COMPLETION: 2002 The Chicken Point Cabin is Located in the North Western area of the states‚ Idaho. In Idaho the climates are similar to its neighbor state Washington where it is much cloudy and precipitates almost
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What is Post-Modernism? The aim of this essay is to explain how Post-Modernism has influenced our contemporary built environment and explain what other movements have derived from it. I would argue that Post-Modernism is a worldwide movement in all arts and disciplines. A definition of postmodernism will provide a better understanding of the trend that would show how it is relevant to contemporary culture and important for the future. Postmodernism became an important movement right after
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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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Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe became the cornerstone for modernism architecture in 20th century. Until today‚ it is still the foundation for the development of architecture throughout the world. However‚ these two architects found their distinction in expressing their own modernism. Villa Savoye and Barcelona Pavilion are the landmarks in the success of Corbusier and Mies‚ also the discrimination in architectural styles of the two. Villa Savoye of Corbusier encountered Barcelona Pavilion of Mies in the
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From Embodying Ornament to Functional and Aesthetic Space in Early-20th-Century Architecture. "If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." Despite the risk of sounding cliché by opening with a Ludwig Wittgenstein quote‚ this is where we shall begin. It is something that relates back to a basic human instinct that is so deeply rooted in our DNA. Why do we yearn so intuitively for ideas that are silly and nonsensical? The answer is balance. Everything in the universe
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HISTORY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE NAME: ARCHITECTURE 310 TEST #2 THE FOLLOWING ESSAY QUESTIONS ARE DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS April 18th‚ 2013‚ AFTER THE SLIDE I.D. 1. DISCUSS SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GROPIUS’S BAUHAUS SCHOOL AND AALTO’S PAIMIO SANATORIUM BAUHAUS PAIMIO SANATORIUM A. Bauhaus - Use rectangle shape to divide the area for different function. Paimio Sanatorium - Different angle to separate different
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imitated many times and became an icon of North American corporate design. Mies is known as the father of the steel and glass structure. Mies designed many buildings during his life however none of the would be as popular and famous as the Seagram Building. In real estate and architecture‚ some dreams need a lot of staying power to get realized. The Seagram Building is the realization‚ some three decades late‚ of Mies van der Rohe’s dream of a glass-covered‚ high-rise office tower that would provide
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The Bauhaus Design Movement The Bauhaus is one of the most important Design Movements in the twentieth century. It took place in Germany of the 1920s and early 1930s‚ the period of the Weimar Republic‚ an area considered one of the birthplaces of the Modern Movement in architecture and design. The impact of the horrible experiences in the First World War‚ poverty and inflation created a new consciousness‚ which influenced strongly Design‚ Architecture and Art. This was the age of the Bauhaus
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