Department of Architecture SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND ENVIRONMENT NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE AR1102 Architectural Design 1 Academic Year 2012/2013 Project 02 – The room and a ‘village’ Project 02 The room and a ‘village’ Understanding architectural language Using architectural language and Making architectural language Arguably the room or its approximation is the basic construct of an architectural space. How it is defined‚ enclosed and what elements are used to do this is the architecture
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The Tugendhat House was a private villa designed by Mies van der rohe‚ which located in the Brno‚ Czech Republic. In this building‚ Mies used steel frame structure and glass material to create a unique flowing space‚ which connected the interior space and exterior space and also guaranteed the privacy of the residence at the same time The Tugendhat house sits on a hillside with two story floor plan and a semi-underground room which looks as if it were insert in the hillside. The first floor is a
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for all future generations. Gropius was director for nine years in two separate cities; Weimar and Dessau. However he was not the only leader‚ Hannes Meyer continued on from Walter and was in charge from 1928 – 1930. Following from him was Ludwig Mies van der Roche‚ who was director for the last three years where the school was moved from Dessau and lastly Berlin before it is was closed down by pressure form the Nazis. This being said the Nazi’s never directly closed Bauhaus but rather shifted it
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MODERNISM Question: To what extent did the ideology of Modernism reflect new sets of values in architecture and design in the period between 1919 and 1960? Answer this question with examination of works of 3 architects/designers of the time analyzing how Modernism was manifested in their works. ANSWER Bauhaus’ Walter Gropius said in Germany‚ 1919‚ “Today’s artist lives in an era of dissolution without guidance. He stands alone. The old forms are in ruins‚ the benumbed world is shaken up‚
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MODERN ARCHITECTURE De Stijl Architecture De Stijl architecture was formed by a group of young artists who created the new movement in 1917; calling both the movement and the magazine they published De Stijl. The group promoted utopian ideals and group members believed in the birth of new age in the wake of WWI. They felt it was a time of balance between individual and universal values. The work was completely abstract as well. The goal was total integration of art and life. GERRIT THOMAS RIETVELD
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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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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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mainly notes‚ needs a little work but ideas are all there and has great opening - What impact has technology had on architecture of the 20th century? Throughout the nineteenth century‚ architecture refused to have anything to do with industry; it had been concerned solely with monumental projects glorifying the state and giant civic structures expressing the pride of its people. This however‚ all changed with the dawn of the twentieth century. Industrial production became an integral part of modern
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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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"K-I-S-S" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Kiss (disambiguation). KISS is an acronym for "Keep it simple‚ stupid" as a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960.[1][2] The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complex; therefore simplicityshould be a key goal in design and unnecessary complexity should be avoided. The phrase has been associated with aircraft engineer Kelly Johnson (1910–1990).[3] The term "KISS principle" was in popular
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