Designing For Many Architects And Designers

In A Home Is Not a House, Reyner Banham starts by arguing that the main function of the typic American house is to cover its mechanical structure. In fact, he states that the use of mechanical services in architectural practice varies constantly because mechanical services are considered to be new in the profession, as well as, a cultural threat to the architect’s position in the world. To show his argument, Banham states that American houses are basically large single spaces divided by partitions inside that give a relative importance to the use of internal mechanical services, causing a threat to the need of architectural design. Similarly, American cultural characteristics, like cleanliness and hygiene, also foster the use and need of mechanical

Interior Design is a misunderstood profession. Interior Design can be defined as the art or process of designing the interior decoration of a room or building (Oxford 2017). It is often undermined by a related profession known as Architecture. Architecture is the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings (Oxford 2017). From this misinterpretation and mistaken identity, Interior Design is assumed to be Architectures’ “other”. Much literature has been written on the subject of Architecture versus Interior Design. Three main points dominate the discussions: Masculine versus feminine stereotyping, superior versus inferior and Interior Design versus Interior Decorating.

The intention is to make occupants feel physically ill and all of its effects. Precast and cast in-place concrete are customized in tube-like structures which slope variably to resist lateral loads stabilizing the vertical elements. At some strategic locations with severely angled walls, pre-stressed steel reinforced concrete is an absolute option. Steel is used to bear compressive loads as well as tensile loads. The vertical elements are tied together with beams and slabs which prevent them from cracking. The monolithic appearance and the complication in opening positions and dimensions require a high level of difficulty in pouring concrete, which make this museum become the first model project of its kind to test the new concrete-handling method. The challenge is to avoid segregation in pouring concrete. Timing is the key. The exterior walls are molded with in-situ concrete; the advantage it offers is that the apertures can be made in any shape and size, width and height. It also allows a less amount of columns used, and an expansion for larger, uninterrupted spaces. The extra strength the reinforced concrete gives grants Libeskind the ability to make the concept practical.

The Sydney Opera House is an enormously iconic building and sculpture which captures the eyes of many architects to this day. Its outstanding design has enrolled it into a World Heritage Site in 2005. The sculpture at the time of construction was thought to be a daring and impossible design but after years of close planning, it became a possible concept. The building is of outstanding universal value for achievements and structural engineering brilliance. It is one of Australia’s main icons, along with the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Australian War Memorial, but the opera house shows its significance as an architectural object of great beauty which inspires many young architects.

This essay will show you the development of architecture over the years, and the influence it has had on modern day design. The influence this design has had from 2000 years ago, on our modern day designs is shown in the follow extracts. We will also look at how the design and architecture of the pantheon had an influence on the buildings that were built at a later stage through time.

Question 1. Choose an architect or practice whose work is covered by or relevant to this course and discuss critically one or more of their design projects or drawings or urban proposals as precedent case-studies. Selectively situate this work in relation to their body of work, and against the practices and concerns of the period. Focus on the architectural qualities of a specific key aspect of the design of the projects. Selectively consider how they might relate to the historical situation, cultural values, theoretical concerns and design practices of the time. This may involve a selective analysis of compositional design practices, material fabrication production and the experiential reception of built outcomes of the projects.

Gehry’s deconstructive style has stretched the boundaries of non-traditional building materials, space, movement, and elevated architecture into a unique art form. The three buildings that I chose were the Rouse Company headquarters, built in the 1969 Columbia, MD, Vitra Design Museum 1987 - 1989, Weil am Rhein, Germany, and Weisman Art Museum completed in 1993, University of Minnesota, Minnesota. These building show an evolution in Gehry’s architectural style. The buildings move from the spare organic Prairie style, reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright, to the fluid energetic movement he is known for.

There are many great architects in this world but there is only a hand full of

Material displacement, absurd formation and facadism, creates discussion, challenges the viewers and provokes polarised opinions. Architects within the current era, are expressive, artistically driven, technologically aided and therefore experimental. These factors have encouraged outrageous designs and statements. The outcomes have provoked controversy, which are expressed through various mediums, such as media, articles, debates and lectures. An architect that has created many controversial buildings, is non other than Frank Gehry. The individual whose works are considered between pragmatic professionalism and radical experimentation. One building that will be further articulated and examined, is the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, University of Technology Sydney (UTS). A building spawned from a sketch, and an idea of a tree house and as Gehry himself said “A growing, learning organism with many branches of thought, some robust and some ephemeral and delicate”. The intention of the design was to develop it inside-out, which has undoubtedly shaped the branding and marketing efforts of the school. The greatest controversial statement made towards the building, is its absurd and somewhat organic display of a ‘fabric’ like, brick facade. A facade that has been sculpted in a way that has never been attempted quite like that before. All to achieve the concept of ‘movement’, a fabric like quality with a

The human body is the ultimate tool for discovering the environment. Human anatomy is considered to be nature’s peak of perfection and certain features serve as inspiration for many architects. To study the relationship between the human body and architecture, one must not be limited to human body parts resemblance to architectural works but to a larger extent consider human emotions, sensory nerves, the mind and general human psychology. In essence everything that makes us human. In its simplest definition Architecture can be described as an art or practice of designing buildings. It is practiced in a way that accomplishes both practical and communicative or expressive requirements. To relate it to human body then Architecture can widely define the place, the site, the energy, the systems, the building, the flora and fauna. These components that bring aesthetic property to humanity apart from the utilitarian purpose it serves. The perfect balance of a normal human body and the proportions are incorporated into architecture from a point of view of imitation, idealized allusion and the actual human use. Evidence of such human incorporation into architecture is seen from the Ancient Greek Architectures where it was common for tower columns to take shape of a human being like in the colossus of the Ancient

Homeowners faced design choices that federal agencies, corporations, builders, architects, research and development organizations, and media outlets honed down into a smaller list for the masses. I frame the design options that homeowners had with two themes access, and science and technology. The theme of access addresses the social, cultural, and political structures that dictated design options. Science and technology encompass the construction processes and materials, interior materials, and objects within the house. In some instances, the theme of science and technology impacted access. I will illustrate how these themes frame and narrow the design options available to homeowners when purchasing or renovating their homes.

DesignIT is a graphic arts company that is expanding business and has recently purchased a new building 56’*36’ space for the purpose of housing two full time designers and a receptionist. The new building has four cubicles, one office, one server room, one reception desk, and a conference room. DesignIT has already relocated one Web Server (Microsoft IIS Server), one File Server (Microsoft Server 2008), and one more Server 2008 (Small Business Server). As a network design consultant, I have been charged with the task of designing and configuring the network for DesignIT. The small company has

Frank Owen Gehry is a Canadian American architect that was born in 1928 and now resides in Los Angeles California He is known best for his post modern designs which includes the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles which is the new home for the Los Angeles Philharmonic which Gerhy designed to be one of the most acoustically complex concert halls throughout the globe. Gehry also has other well known architectural creations such as the Vontz Center for Molecular Studies at the University of Cincinnati, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto Canada and the MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center in Cambridge Massachusetts not to mention Gerhy’s own private resident in Santa Monica California that utilizes unconventional building materials such as corrugated aluminum sheets and chain link fencing that is clad to the exterior of his home in the deconstructivism style. Frank Gerhy has also been chosen to be the architect for the future Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial.

Today technology allows us to construct structures that we would never have been able to make in the past. Some of the creations are impressive based on what they accomplish but others are masterpieces in themselves. Man’s capability to build such tall buildings, as the skyscrapers we are familiar with covering our cities today, is a major expression of the advancements we have made as a culture. The power necessary to build such tall structures inspired competition between architects to see who could build the tallest one. One skyscraper that has inspired many and served as a model, for high rise buildings that were created after, is the Chrysler Building. The Chrysler Building serves as an identifying mark to anyone that

Le Corbusier, inspired by modern painting, the floating floor and transparency in his design is an echo of what was modern painting. In 1915, he drew six reinforced concrete pillars that held three horizontal slabs, which were connected by a staircase (fig.1). Ferroconcrete in his hand was like a sculpture’s clay used to express his ideas. Le Corbusier transmuted the concrete skeleton developed by engineer to a means of architectural expression that no one before him had tried.