"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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Rakhshaan Qazi-‐ Modern Architecture‚ Essay two Four of the leading architects of the modernist period were Adolf Loos‚ Frank Lloyd Wright‚ Ludwig Mies Van der Rode‚ and Louis Kahn. These architects drew significantly from each other and explored similar ideas in their establishing of a new standard
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The Starchitect of Post-Modern Architecture Architecture was the first style to push beyond modernist values and shift to post-modern values. Modern architecture followed a uniform style that appears in the de Stijl movement; which preferred order‚ horizontal/vertical lines‚ simplicity‚ sameness‚ universal form‚ and purism; meanwhile‚ the Bauhaus movement used industrial materials and simple geometric forms. The international style or what can be termed as present-day architecture followed the modernist
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The Post Modernism period just came after the Modern period but it is not clear or impossible to be said when it came. In other words the modern Period was the time when the world was recovered from World War 2‚ which started globalization. The Post Modernism is a concept that arrived an era of academic study about in the mid-1980s. There is a variety of concepts‚ architecture‚ music‚ literature‚ fashion‚ art‚ film etc. In the 1980’s the political climate changed. During that time Post Modernism
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rederick smith The Golden Ratio March 31 2011 1. The introduction: Hello my name is Frederick Smith‚ I will be speaking you about a fascinating thing that is in everything‚ it’s a part of you‚ it created you & its not just in you‚ its all around you. Its also in all plants and in all animals. Take for example an octopus has eight tentacles hence the name “octo’~pus‚ each one of its tentacles has the exact number of suckers on it and each tentacle is the same length pretty amazing right...
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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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