Statement Of Interest In Architecture

As I went to William Floyd Estate, I was aware of how to appreciate the historical person’s house. Not only the houses, I could appreciate the landscape surrounding the houses and imagined how actually lived there. Not only William Floyd Estate and Sagamore Hill, but also other historical houses are not just physical buildings. They contains history of that time period and lifestyle how they lived. Therefore, as they have been being preserved well so far, we need to be responsible for good and let more people visit there. Moreover, we need to preserve it with minimal repair and

Cahokia Mounds, located near St. Louis, Missouri is the site of a thriving city that was inhabited centuries before Columbus’s arrival on the continent. The ruins, designated by UNESCO as a world heritage site in 1982, are preserved and protected to visitors can learn about how pre-Columbian people lived in North America. Cahokia is one of more than 900 world heritage sites. Funding these properties cost a small fortune and some people think it isn’t worth it. However, I believe that it’s essential to protect sites such as Cahokia Mounds so they won’t last forever.

Ching, Francis D., Jarzombek, Mark M., and Prakash, Vikramaditya. Global History of Architecture (2nd Edition). Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, 2011. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 21 October 2015.

Whether you love the building or hate it, people respond to it. It’s a dynamic piece of architecture that captures people’s attention. … In fact, I think in many ways it was because of the Crystal and what it conveyed to me about the museum and what the museum’s leadership wanted to do that I ended up coming to the ROM…”

“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.

In this compelling book talk, Andrew S. Dolkart, the Director of the Historic Preservation Program and Professor

The aim was to preserve the architectural integrity of the ex-isting building (Stott, 2014). The proposed design hides underground beneath the existing footprint of the museum, which acts as a landmark for the ar-chitecturally conservative city. Ashley Hahn says, “the expansion is by excavation, and removing ob-structions inserted into the museum’s original de-sign, which allow for major improvements to light, circulation, and exhibition space.” These are the main design requirements of which the project is based. In other areas, Gehry added simple sand-stone-clad stair enclosures to accommodate mod-ern safety regulations (Hahn, 2014). He began by studying the DNA of the building. He then looked at the significant assets that the original architects provided to create a strong entry sequence and cir-culation pattern. The aim of this is to connect the new to the old giving the impression that the mu-seum was of one harmonious design (Stott,

The Heritage Assessment tool is a very useful tool. It appears simplistic in its development and use. There are twenty-nine questions on the tool that provide for a very natural flow in

Have you ever trace back to your childhood memory? When you walk through the National Museum, Independent Hall, or Lincoln Memorial, how many of you have actually found yourself stopping and looking up admirable at the building. The modern design has knocked down your own memory about the beautiful park and historic theatre. If you do not stand up and speak out to preserve historic building, you will miss and never gain back what you truly like in your childhood. I am here today to persuade you to stand and fight to preserve historic building.

As writer, interior designer, educator, and American architect Frank Lloyd Wright once said, “The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization” (BrainyQuote). The purpose of this paper will deal with the description of...

Architecture should be nurturing, responsive and alive, dynamically shifting spatial balances, organically expressive forms, subtly luminous colors and biologically healthy. To achieve such life-enhancing architecture, it has to address all the body senses simultaneously and fuse our image of self with experience of the world. By strengthening our sense of self and reality, architecture serves its all-important function of accommodation and

Stone quarrying leads to eroded hills, like this picture showing the site of maharani marble quarry, brick kilns in the fringes of the city lead to denudation of topsoil, dredging for sand damage the river biodiversity etc.

Before the end of my second year at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture, I began to ponder on the possibility of quitting architecture. It was a convoluted time of uncertainty; I wasn’t sure whether I was prepared to become an architect and take on the responsibility and commitment to better the built environment. Nevertheless, I decided to give myself one last shot at architecture before giving up – I accepted the internship offer from MAD Architects in Beijing, China. There, I got to meet many young architects

“ 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