Ancient Roman architecture

• Urban growth machines were developed by John Logan and Harvey Moltoch. This concept was supposed to help institutions like realtors, local banks, politicians. Though it only reflected the self-interest of themselves its purpose is to show the economic competition with alternative investment opportunities and competing locales. • Both painters wanted to depict what was going on during the mid-nineteenth century. The Impressionists on Paris wanted to show the transformation of Paris through its…

element — as a trinity to comment on the structures. Due to this, architects would commission Stoller to “Stollerize” their buildings for his photographical technique to manifest in their architecture. Stoller’s iconic images are typically shot in crisp black-and-white to extensively define modernist architecture (in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s) and reduce the subjects to their geometric essentials. This is accompanied with the expressive massive thanks to the profound use of shadows and…

Born on 5th March 1910 into a wealthy Taiwanese family in Kagi Country, Japanese Taiwan, Momofuku Ando was raised by his grandparents after the death of his parents. His grandparents inspired him to follow their path of business and start a textiles company. In 1933 he travelled to Osaka to study economics at Ritsumeikan University. He became a Japanese citizen following the Second World War. Ando lost his textile company to bankruptcy, following being convicted of tax evasion in 1948. He later…

Katherine Herrera Prof. Lange ARTH: Contemporary World Art October 14, 2015 Reading Journal 2 In the essay Grids from The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths by Rosalind Krauss, she focuses on grids and how they represent modernity of modern art. Krauss talks about how there are two ways that grid art is modern art. The first is because it is spatial, meaning its flatness is what makes the work of art unnatural and completely acts separately from the realm of art. The…

Response Paper 1: A Comparison between The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau and The Spaces of the Modern City by Gyan Prakash and Kevin Kruse. The Spaces of the Modern City and The Practice of Everyday Life are two works dedicated to understanding the modern city. Though both de Certeau and Prakash engage with same ideas, contrasting the ‘imagined’ or constructed vision of the modern city, with the ‘real’ or experienced city (exemplified by the everyday life of its inhabitants),…

significantly devote their lives to humanity and the environment through architecture. When an architect receives this award, they also receive $100,000 and a bronze medal. Foster also received one of the prestigious Princess of Asturias Awards. Awards are given out for those who have made scientific, cultural, and humanistic advancements in the world, and Foster has definitely done that. These are only a few of the extremely prestigious awards and honors that Norman Foster has received in…

A Pentadic Analysis of the John M. Pfau Library Introduction One way for humans to express their selves is through buildings because buildings could represent the values of the people who built them as well as the people who use them. For example, the pyramids in Egypt where built by king Kufu to serve as a tombs for the ruling dynasty of Egypt at that time as well as to express the greatness of this dynasty by enormous size of the building and the placement of gold and jewelry inside. Thus,…

This is the where the great works of Spanish born artist Antoni Gaudi, usually considered to be the epitome of architecture in Catalan modernism, recognized as the face of Barcelona architecture. Gaudi’s was born in born in 1852, and his upbringing was not easy. He was the youngest of five, and two of them died because of different types of health related illnesses. The hardships of his youth give us…

To look at the fundamental ideas of the theory of folding and to help understand the theory in context, explore it amongst the features of post modern architecture. look at works by architects such as Peter Eisenmann and see how he has interpreted the theory of folding as an alternative interpretation of conceptual design. in which one building has a continuous form (folding), and one has a fragmented form (deconstructivism) - two buildings in relation to deleuzes theory through discussion and…

Architecture in East Asia has been profoundly affected by globalization. Since 1980s, because of the deregulation of the London market, the company of architectural practice has followed the same pattern as other business organizations, created the “building boom” and attracted the American’s investors and architects. The well-established corporations in America started to open the branch in London; subsequently they expanded branch office rapidly in the other global regions. “The liberalization…