American architecture

Postmodernism is a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism. Postmodernism was a movement in architecture that rejected the functionalist, modernist ideals of rationality and also used to describe a dissatisfaction with modern architecture. Postmodernism is characterized by the return of ornament and symbol to form. The aims of the postmodernism was look back to the past for inspiration of history and tradition, ideas of…

reconstruction and the arrival of post-modernism in British architecture. The recent popularity of post-war British architecture, amongst architects and non-architects alike, unravel threads of lesser-know continuity between the post-war neo-avant-gardes and the post-modernists. This research will focus on a relatively well-known yet under-examined figure, Theo Crosby, to fill in the gaps and to expand the existing historiography of post-war British architecture. Crosby’s significance had been…

visual. As it is a continuously evolving phrase, there are obvious clarities of meaning and articulations to be made of this notion of ‘image’. From this, many architects have insisted many of their own opinions and declarations on the Brutalist architecture. Banham describes his conditions of ‘the image’ as an instantaneous comprehension of the visual entity to be justified by the form’s experience through the eye. This idea of ‘an image’ has the ability “to describe anything or nothing.” In…

The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture. The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture by Pier Vittorio Aureli is very subjective. Architecture makes sense within the social, political and cultural dimension. It is represented through the ideal appearance of the built environment. In the title he has used the word absolute which refers to the marked boundary of a city. Urbanization for most architects is interchangeable, but for him it is a fundamental phenomena which is the division and…

influenced the development of architecture and modern graphic design in immense and subtle ways. Frank Lloyd Wright should be given more credit for his influence on graphic design not only from his several digital designs but through his fine arts work as well, because of his unique style of experimenting with nature in his design and architectural background. His creative style brings life to the straightest, strong, and bold structures. Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect and…

In early 20th century Chicago, the established ideas of functionalism and historicism manifested themselves in the conflicting theories of organicism and classicism. Although there were prominent classical resurgences during the City Beautiful movement and the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, these revivals did not align with what the Prairie and Chicago school had initiated – to conceive a modern, commercial metropolis.1 Because of the automation of the construction industry, these…

just the manifestation of superficial nostalgia?”.1 Postmodernism came as a protest against the sterile emptiness of ‘late modern’ architecture, which lacks the satisfactory reference to everyday world of things. Modern architecture was always abstract and drew away from reality. It became non-figurative, as it abandoned ‘figures’ that constituted the basis of architecture of the past.2 The referred ‘architectural figure’ was a term coined by Paolo Portoghesi in the late 1970s to describe…

Frank Lloyd Wright believed that organic Architecture was the new style of Architecture, he wanted to represent a new way of designing, his own style which best represented his believes. Nature for Frank was like God, he believed that the building itself should not be included on top of the landscape but it should be introduced within the landscape. Frank Lloyd wright took his believes from his mentor Louis Sullivan with whom he’ll design many houses. The idea of including nature within the…

There are many basic elements of the house resist standard modernist architecture elements. An enclosure ground floor set consistently on the ground, rather than glass walls which open up the ground floor. And a non-structural applique arch reflects a return to mannerist architecture. The use of wood, which is a nature material, make it looks more ambiguous or noncommittal. In addition, it has a gabled roof rather than the flat…

concept as “a deeply encouraging one—that a new model of metropolitan development may take the place of the automobile-oriented sprawl that has covered our landscapes since World War II.” (Wheeler p 3). He refers back to Calthorpe’s book “The Next American Metropolis” and how that was the initial platform for Calthorpe’s idea of multi-land uses, mainly between transit and the pedestrian(Wheeler, 2001 p 2). Though Wheeler (2001) believes in much of Fulton and Calthorpe propose, he also states…