American architecture

Prefabrication has been used since ancient times. We can see that The Romans use prefabricated building elements to build their forts quickly and efficiently in newly conquered Britain in AD 43. But, as Herbers describes; the prefabrication as a word that describes building typology was not considered important before the 1930s. After that, it started to gain a seat in the building typology when the business of making building components show up in the substantial industry, and prebabrication…

History of Construction: Cobblestone Cobblestone houses are one of the most identifiable structures. These types of houses date back to the early 1800's when many of the towns in the area of New York were being founded. For example, even when driving down many of the streets you can easily find houses like this scattered all across. They're marvelous to look at, yet can also be strange because there are only some of these houses that are built out of stone and not lumber. At first, these houses…

century. One such writer-artist was Dan Graham, who consistently published various written works related to his artistic production over more than four decades, tracing his journey through curation, performance, photography, video, installation and architecture. Graham’s work is based within conceptual art, an example of this being his ‘Schema’ (1966), which was a work he staged entirely…

Henry Van de Velde in Modern Architecture Henry Van de Velde existed during the movements of Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Modernism. He is said to be the father of both Art Nouveau and Modernism and the ideals and theories of design that belong to each movement. Van de Velde was a painter and architect obsessed with the activation of the line. The curve was a true form of organic expression and became an idea that accompanied the work of Van de Velde. Another desire of Van de…

and Hilla Becher were born in 1931 and 1934. They were german conceptual artists, first meeting at their college, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Collaborating on their first project in 1959, the pari photographed disappearing German industrial architecture. These works would be only done on 8x10 inch film. Always shot objectively, on cloudy days, to avoid shadows. They favoured early morning light as well. They arranged the photos in rows, helping to display the similarities of the different…

Cloud Gate’s qualities of “presentness” as lamented by Fried functions as a precursor that introduces elements of site and duration typically suited to an outdoor context or public realm. Rosalind Krauss notes that sculptors working in the minimalist idiom did so as they “had no faith in the ideals classical sculpture as founded on, and the only means by which they could explore the medium’s possibilities were to introduce the situational elements of placement and temporal duration” . Such a…

Building that are built today can reflect the value and attitude of today’s society. The first thing a person who is curious about the aspect of the building is to figure out its purpose whether it is a historical landmark or just there for the designs or decoration. These building should have a meaning behind them it also can teach the upcoming generation what happened and get them interested in their history, it can be very beneficial to their learning experience. Montgomery has Selma to…

Was it possible that the paper that I wrote about the newsletter from intermediate computer class that was associated with my career has a rhetorical choice? The paper does have a rhetorical choices for the content about the important lesson that I learned from the intermediate computer class and the lesson was useful for my major in architectural engineering. The paper was created for the audience of the reader that was associated with architectural engineering like college students and…

Government House across the street to the west; Customs House its square facing the quay; the Lands Department, the broad Macquarie Street and the General Post Office, Martin Place. This pairing is demonstrative of the contribution of Barnet’s architecture to civic order and indicates that perhaps Barnet’s civic institutions play some role in creating the open space itself. In particular, journeying from Customs House, along Macquarie Street, passing the Lands Department and through to the…

Professional Practice 2_Assignment 02 Pro Bono According to Owen. C, it has recognized pro bono work as a responsibility for legal profession to be undertaken as a main part to facilitate the legal practices. Mandatorily, firms are required to commit at least five percent of the value of the total hours within the contract to pro bono work by Victorian Government (Owen, C, 2012). Should architectural profession follow the similar rules? What are the benefits and challenge for architectural…