Postmodern architecture

Introduction Does black architecture exists? If so, why has it been ignored for so many centuries? I will be defending African-American architecture by discussing many black architects from the past to the present. I will show and discuss their architectural work by describing the appearance, the year it was built, and as well as if its still standing today. I believe we all know that there are black architects today but centuries ago it was like they were non-existed because they were never

Post Modernism and Architecture If one were to walk around and casually ask five people what post modernism was they would probably get five different answers or none at all. It is one of those indefinable academic terms that applies to many different fields of study. Most people seem to understand what it means individually but few agree collectively. To make matters even more complicated, it is often used in discussions about deconstruction. "To some Post Modernism is an excuse

change in culture, art, and architecture which took place in the fifteenth-and sixteenth-century Italy, and then left its mark on the culture of the whole of Europe. During the Renaissance there was a significant shift of universally recognized values. They began to appreciate and recognize the creative possibilities of a human mind, which entailed a lot of consequences. One of them was the spectacular development of the architecture, and the new role of architecture and the architect in society

Problems of Green Architectures According to Stauskis (184), there has been a raging debate as to whether green architecture has actually achieved its original goal or not. To answer this question, it is important to understand how green architecture works. It is the responsibility of the architects to meet the needs of their clients in a way that does not threaten the environment. Green architecture involves designing and developing structures that do not

Table of Contents I History Background 2 II technology detail 3 Contour Crafting (CC) 3 -Concept 3 Building Procedure 3 Automated Reinforcement 4 Automated Plumbing 5 Electrical Network Installation 6 Material 7 III Compare with Conventional House Construction. 8 Conventional House Construction 8 Contour Crafting Vs. Conventional 8 IV Application 9 NASA project 9 Winsun 10 V Future Outlook 10 VI Conclusion 10 I History Background 3D printing technology was start in the mid-1990s, this

resulting in the architect processing more scope than depth of knowledge. Yet the significance of the professional title plays a crucial role in ability to for clients to identify what they want and need, especially in the service sector that architecture falls within. This brings up an interesting situation for the profession that is shifting in responsibly; if architects change the way that they participate in the building industry then is their any need for the title architect? The architect

Waste in the UK Tianyi Shi Abstract: The main purpose of this report is to highlight the issues of waste in the UK by giving three relative and reliable figures. As environmental problems are becoming more serious, how to reduce and dispose of waste has increasingly concerned the government. This research, based on the Direct Material Input and Domestic Material Consumption in the UK from 2000 to 2013, the comparison of waste arising in different sectors in the UK from 2004 to 2012 and local authority

The harm directly reflected in, if the living condition of a certain area is too bright at night, it can be difficult to sleep, disrupt the body 's normal biological clock, leading to daytime work efficiency fall, resulting in psychological stress. 2. Environmental pollution harm has two main aspects: 1. Heat island effect from the perspective of the geographical circulation of heat, because the night lighting caused unnecessary energy loss (including generating heat loss and lighting loss), is bound

Did Le Corbusier herd cats: Totalitarian design in Post War Architecture 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

I would like to go into architecture when i graduate from high school. It can be a hard and long time to learn to draft it can even be a more and hard time to design a building to what the employers want. Unlike some jobs architecture is a solid job and has a comfortable income. An architect in one year could make anywhere between $30,000 - $500,000 and more depending on what level of architecture they are on. An architect does not have to work for a large or small architectural firm they can also