Space Age

Stop Where You Are and Start Moving Forward - Or How Busy-Ness Is Blocking You From Real Progress Are You Too Busy to Live? Don 't you just hate it when you always seem to find yourself running out of time? Oh yes, I 've tried the to-do list. I try to do this every night before I go to bed, although I must admit that there are days when I can 't even do this. But yes, I do the list. Some days, if I 'm not careful, I 'd have a whole list ready to pop onto that page - my mind is that full of things

Central Beheer, a stack of perfect cubes on the outside seems like it might be quite simple on the inside, but in fact Herman Hertzberger intercut spaces and created the complete opposite of a bland open plan office. How does this building perform socially? Well, the main idea Herman Hertzberger had behind creating Centraal Beheer was for that exact reason, so that it can perform socially. Hertzberger created a work place where anyone would want to work. “symbol of a new way of combining work and

while the walls of each room close in on your very being. Yet there are spaces that inspire healing, that transcend the bounds of our everyday life. Faith is a strange thing, some depend on it for guidance, others for healing. What happens when the buildings you frequent start to inspire your mental wellness rather than deter from it? Architects have known for awhile the power light embodies. It has the potential to compose space. Transporting individuals from the physical world to a place of

While living and serving in a Chiang Mai prison in Thailand, I met with a radical Muslim man named, Ali, who was serving a life sentence in the Thai prison because, he murdered a Thai woman. As growing up in Pakistan, it is very challenging to love those who persecute and hate you. Initially, he didn’t want to do anything with Christianity. But after meeting him for at least six months, with difficult conversations, he decided to accept Jesus Christ as his personal savior. From that point on,

spontaneous than using the western entrance on level zero when I first visited the building. The sense of arrival was not the same as the other entrances; I had to work harder to orientate. I very quickly found my self on the Turbine Hall Bridge, a dead-end space with not much purpose to it. When the new building opened, the arrival experience on level one dramatically changed. Lots of improvement were shown and the river entrance become more of a way finding route. It now has a comparable sense of arrival

Having a Home People cannot be fulfilled without a home, because a home is a place people can go back to, a place that gives them stability, where people can have their own privacy, gives them comfort, and can symbolize something different. Without a home, people cannot be fulfilled, there are only places in which they can rest, but never sleep; there is no place that they can call their own. People with a home always have a place to go back to, they know that no matter what happens that place

The goal of an architect is to design accordingly to the time with an understanding of the relationship between space and activity. In his essay Space and Events, Bernard Tschumi says, “There is no space without even, no architecture without program.” He then continues with, “Architecture cannot be dissociated from the events that ‘happen’ in it” (Tschumi, 139). Spaces have always been assimilated with past references, which create a type of familiarization and attachment to the past that prevents

Globalization defines practically all facets of modern life. The jobs available to the public, the cultures people embody/emulate, the relationships individuals engage in, are all continuously altered by the profound forces of the globalizing process. Capital, people, images, commodities and ideology transcend national borders, and information races around the globe at accelerating speeds (Inda 4). The theme of globalization has emerged generating considerable amounts of controversy in its wake,

know what land is but new land that was unknown to him/her is a satisfying development in the person 's understanding of everything that is real. The modern practice of this behavior includes, but not limited to, an astronomer using space telescopes to look deep into space where light from an ancient universe is arriving at earth or an experimental physicist when smashing particles together in hopes to find new and smaller part that makes up the fundamental building blocks of the universe. Descartes

Steven Hawking’s A Briefer History in Time tells a simplified story of the universe. Hawking’s starts out the book by going over the different type of cosmology that was held throughout history. He mentions the beliefs that Aristotle, Copernicus, Galileo and other notable individuals held about the universe. This discussion is used to segue into a brief description of the different theories, laws, and ideas concerning the universe held by people today. Newton’s laws of motion and gravity and Einstein’s