Essays on Modern Architecture

The influence field of a building goes beyond its volumetric limits. In this sense, therefore, buildings are not merely placed outdoors, but they actually affect outdoors. The experience of understanding the environment involves a perception of the volume of air that surrounds the observer. The...

Introduction This text will discuss the success of Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain (1997) and argue why it is not only a structure with great aesthetic properties but has also had a profoundly positive impact on the surrounding city’s economy and global perception. This...

The architecture of a country acts like a mirror for understanding the way of living and also the developments of the place that have led to the creation of the country as it looks today. The architecture of a country gives an insight into a...

Etienne Louis Boullée’s was commissioned to expand the Royal Library in 1780. Although his designs were never executed, his perspective drawing of the Royal Library makes a strong statement about Enlightenment ideals, the importance of regularity and effect of lighting in grandiose designs. Boullée’s design...

Introduction The paper is trying to understand the impact of technology in the making of architectural wonders such as Guggenheim Bilbao museum. Established in 1997, the museum offers swirling facades and complex geometrical shapes that was almost impossible to build accurately due to the complexity...

Known for practicing a deconstructive style with his works, Frank Gehry has steadily become a household name in the world of contemporary architecture. The world of architecture has changed its style significantly over the course of human existence ranging from ancient pyramids, gothic cathedrals, to...

Frank Gehry is a de-constructivist and one of the most recognizable figures of postmodern architecture. Postmodern architecture is an architectural movement which has shown in the mid of the twentieth century, as a reaction against the strict rules, formality, lack of variation, and ignorance of...

Introduction Burj Khalifa, which is also known as Burj Dubai, is one of the tallest buildings in the world with a length of 828 Meters. It was established in January 2004 and opened in January 2010. It is located in the UAE in the center...

When you are being most local that you become more universal. Learn from the land. The way we speak shows we paid attention to the particulars in the world. Authenticity in the articulation of their own existence. Real relation to the places around them. To...

There is often a very close relationship between a building and the body that occupies it. I picked the Therme Vals designed by Peter Zumthor to analyze this concept and took into consideration the views of architects Vetruvius and Le Corbusier. Therme Vals, located in...

The Cloister La Tourette, a monastery designed by the Architect Le Corbusier is not only a building, but it is an emotional journey that you take walking through this spiritual environment created by simply using space and “Architectural forms” to evoke serenity and calmness. This...

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Hoist is the material handling component which comes in use to transport the constructional materials and passengers vertically to the different floors. Generally the hoists gets the power from the electric motors and diesel engines which are coupled with the drum which is rolled with...

Architectural representations are powerful tools in communicating and conveying the overall concept of the design, the architect’s intentions and ideas. Moreover, representations are useful in projecting and reflecting the circumstances and positions of that particular society, in this case, the social constructs and other political...

The author says that ‘the purpose of architecture is to design buildings’ is an unsatisfactory definition. Why does he say so? In that case, what is he suggesting as the real purpose of architecture? Explain. ‘The purpose of architecture is to design buildings’ is not...

A simple question like this has the ability to turn heads and arise foggy thoughts that puzzle one’s mind, and – strangely – an exact answer to it has never been agreed upon to this very day. However, most people do approve that it is...

I do acknowledge the fact that many of these beliefs are a product of naivety and general lack of experience in the politics of architecture. But what I lack in experience in architecture, I make up with an outside perspective in the subject. We often...

The concern of ethics is our relation to ourselves, others and to the world, and these relations are articulated through architecture. To understand the ethics of architecture we must consider various factors such as culture, structure, material and means of construction. Truth in architecture can...

Marielys Delgado ARC5744 Questions on Turn-of –the-century Modernism Hermann Muthesius wrote that objects should express a ‘will-to-form’. What does that mean and what is the role of the designer in creating them? Give an example. Herrmann Muthesius believed that the only problem that modern architecture...