How Architecture Has Changed The Creation Of The Country As It Looks Today

An architect’s intention on how his or her design is to be viewed can be misconstrued in a variety of different ways. For example, dissecting the compositional and formal design of a building, with or without knowledge of the architect’s actual intent, is completely up to the interpretation of the person or persons researching or viewing the design. In my own research about the compositional and formal design of the Margaret Esherick House, designed by Louis Kahn, I have come to realize, with the help of scholarly resources, the direct intention of Louis Kahn’s design; in which this paper will come to analyze and explain. While compiling research about the Esherick house, I came across a very informative book, The Houses of Louis Kahn, written by George H. Marcus and William Whitaker. The Houses of Louis

Ancient Near East has always been one of the major themes studied within Western Art. Many impressive constructions characterize this culture: temples, gates, palaces and sculptures pieces. Architecture and the development of large cities, such as Persepolis Palace, is a widely interesting matter. This type of design provides the essential information on who build it, why it was build, for whom and what it signifies to the people; it offers information of the communities ' thoughts, beliefs and form of living. It was around 520 BCE when Darius I began the construction of the ambitious Persepolis Palace, covering a 125.000 square-meter. The construction of this, located in the Plateau of the Zagros lands or Fars Providence, Iran, made the workers acknowledge many international styles. To the people, it was a constant reminder of an entrance of all people. While grey limestone was the main material used, other supplies found around the whole empire also helped with the construction: cedar coming from Lebanon, yaka wood coming from Gandhara and Carmania and bricks coming from Babylon. With great material used, the structure came to include courts, halls, and columns. The Persepolis Palace, constructed by the great Darius I, expresses an internationalist style that establishes the respectable knowledge of a powerful leader who depicted hospitality and the centralization of the nation’s government within the palace. By also tracing a historical and cultural background of the

“The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built” (Frank Lloyd Wright). Throughout the centuries, architecture has fascinated everyone. History is inscribed in buildings and they can express the political and economic power of a nation. Although time has gone by, buildings have not. You can still idolize ancient Egyptian and Greek architecture and see how the events that occurred at that time influenced them.

“Learning to read architecture-an ability that centers on a kind of visual and spatially oriented analysis-is not easy” (Carter & Cromley, 2005, p. xvi).The short history of the field makes this guide a valuable tool for emerging scholars as it introduces the field, guides them to conducting research on vernacular buildings, and invites them in participating in shaping the field by adding their own scholarship. What is significant about this guide for young researchers is that is explains how fieldwork lacks categorical clarity and can be messy, and it is in this confusion that researchers can reveal the priorities, values, and lifestyle of the users. Renovations and additions are part of the built form and it results in making it difficult to categorize material, roof type, and windows resulting in the struggle to categorize as the field work becomes more descriptive than prescriptive. It can and does indicate social hierarchies and power dynamics within the culture, by reading this guide young scholars can begin to understand how to read buildings and understand what they tell us. Material culture and vernacular architect explores the relationship between objects and/or buildings with people, and both

the International Style, it would be more suitable to be describe as a further development from the draft “Farnsworth House”, with rich historical and critical exegesis upon the style, combined with an objective disengagement, an appropriation influenced and developed from the Farnsworth House and the historical architectural principles. (Jacobus, 1962, p.24 ) For example, Henry-Russell Hitchcock has claimed that one difference between the Glass House and Farnsworth House is, the living space is not the interior in daytime for six months of the year deal to the positioning of the house and the reflection of the glass-wall created. The living space in the period of time will be re-defined as the surrounding grassed terrace, as well as the valley

These buildings have many differences as well as similarities which will be discussed in detail throughout the whole essay. They are very different in the sense that they both have their own characteristics starting with that they both have different styles. Even though they are very different they also have their similarities. They are similar in the sense that they served help for many people.

Mies van der Rohe is one of the most prominent figures in modernist architectural history, the man who popularised some of the most influential phrases of the era, e.g. “less is more”, and strove to push his ideas and philosophies, not just on what he thought a building should be, but of what he thought architecture itself was. He changed the cityscape of America, showing the world a style that was simple and elegant, with such a controlled palette of expressions that shone through in its geometric beauty.

This book was written by Juhani Pallasmaa with regard to ‘Polemics’, on issues that were part of the architecture discourse of the time, i.e. 1995. It is also an extending of ideas expressed in an essay entitled “Architecture of the seven senses” published in 1994.

Art and architecture can be traced back to several years ago where the designs and styles of today's buildings have gone through a transformation. Famous architects were involved in modifying the styles to suit each period and in most cases, they were dictated by the leadership of the day. Although architectural designs were carried down from one period to another most of them were modified and better than the former. The paper will, therefore, describe the Altes Museum and the lever house. Besides, it will draw similarities and, or differences between the two architectural designs.

Throughout the years architects have been able to display their artistic abilities by showcasing their different styles and capabilities in structures that still stand from thousands of years ago. This essay will provide an explanation of my preference for this image, a short history of its construction, a brief analysis of the buildings function, as well as the style of the amazing archaic Parthenon of ancient Athens.

The historical processes of any artistic movement are carried out under the certain community background, which is inseparable from the social political, economic and cultural environment impact. "De Stijl" is form by a Dutch genre painting, it had the huge impact on the design community. This movement in the design world is the beginning of the modernist art in Dutch, it is also an important part in the early modernist design movement. Design style definition of Stijl movement is showing material in a very simple way, its designers used extremely simple and orderly style of painting, colour and form lines applied on the architecture, clothing, furniture and other aspects of design. This paper is focus on exploring the long-term influences of De Stijl architecture in modern architecture design and also the specific application in the interior decoration. It will in-depth discuss about many different aspects of the movement from philosophy, concept of space and form, structure, etc; spanning more than 90 years of history.

This essay focuses on the development of hybrid colonial architecture in early 20th century in Southeast Asia. The essay investigates the different styles of buildings in different locations and explains how these types of architecture combined both European and local origins. It explains the Dutch style in Indonesia and the British style in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia while giving an example building to these styles.

It was the 1917 a period after the World Wat I when the De Stijl art movement in Netherlands was born. It was a period where in the art and in the design communities were changing and things starts to get the forms of the machine-like. It was also the period of the Cubism which was influencing al the new designs. Thanks to being neutral during the World War I, Netherlands’ artist were able to focus on art that didn’t reflect the dark moments of the war. The Schroder House and its furniture are one of the best and true example of the De Stijl Architecture. They were designed entirely by Gerrit Rietveld between 1919-1924. He was the main exponent of the movement. This paper will present an analysis on how Rietveld was able to create a new

“ Architecture organizes and structures space for us, and its interiors and the objects enclosing and inhabiting its rooms can facilitate or inhibit our activities by the way they use this language”(Lawson pg.6).

Architecture can be viewed with two different types of properties. Properties that can be seen like shapes, their composition, the spaces they create and, the colours and textures that make up their appearance. These properties are considered to be visual while other properties are considered to be abstract. These properties can only be described using words; the meanings behind the architecture and the stories that can be told about it. The context, its cultural background and its function also affects how we view architecture. The question is, what