Architect

Leonardo da Vinci Have you ever heard of a person that was an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer all at the same time? Well I sure have! His name is Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, “at the third hour of night” in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, in the lower valley of Florence. His father was a notary and a landlord named Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da…

A Closer Look at Gender Contraceptives "Let 's talk about sex, baby/Let 's talk about all the good things/And the bad things that may be," so, let 's address the "bad things" society does not "talk" about, such as the responsibility women must take to prevent pregnancy and STDs (Kalveit 1). The role of women in this case seems unjustifiable; education and accessibility to birth control was almost non-existent until 1916 and have been closely regulated or restricted since then, compared to…

On the Shays' Rebellion Website, I thought it was very interesting to find that ministers in New England churches believed that the quality of singing by their congregations was not good enough. Today singing is considered a way of expressing one's joy about God's love, and all noise is considered joyful. It seems that the New England churches were worrying more about their image than people having the freedom to express their joy. I really like the Architectural Style Guide because I was able…

In Eugéne Green’s “La Sapienza”, a zippy camera guides us through architectural views and details before introducing us to Alexandre Schmidt (Fabrizio Rongione), a respected French architect who's being awarded for a lifetime work. Lyrical music floats around and Alexander’s speech, which referenced the human progress and praised the environmental consciousness, despite routine, pleased his wife, Aliénor (Christelle Prot), a dispirited psychoanalyst who still suffers in silence with the early…

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Hagia Sofia vs. Al-Azhar Mosque In this writing i will compare two structures, Hagia Sophia which is in Istanbul,Turkey and Al-Azhar Mosque it is in Cairo,Egypt. Hagia Sophia was built by Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the old city center of Istanbul's historic peninsula between the years AD 532-537.Hagia Sophia is a masterpiece of Byzantine architecture although,is a structure that influence the synthesis of Pagan, Orthodox, Catholic and Islam.First and foremost , it has an…

MONDAY This morning I received a call from the subcontractor who is to provide the floating floors for the project. The subcontractor asked about how to view the most recent construction documents. I directed him to our file transfer protocol (FTP) site, which houses all of the documents that have been issued, approved requests for information (RFIs), and submittals. After checking the site to make sure the subcontractor was set up on the site, I was able to give him the information he needed to…

Globalized Issue: Pollution With the escalation in its severity in recent years, society is increasingly gaining understanding on the global issue of air pollution. Air pollution is the contamination of the air as a result of smoke, dust, and essentially, harmful gases mixed into the atmosphere. People from all around the world are growing more concerned with the issue of air pollution each day, thanks to the emphasis the media has placed on it. As society develops awareness and grows…

difference between the White City and the Black. The fair was merely a temporary cover-up of the reality of Chicago; it put a brief mask over the poverty and violence happening on the outside. Using irony to his advantage, Larson writes that the architects decide to “make it [the fair] all perfectly white”(pg. 255). White is a symbol of purity and innocence, something Chicago has always longed to obtain. Creating a city composed entirely of white buildings, the exposition is clearly an escape…

The Architecture of the City (MIT Press, 1984), Aldo Rossi Aldo Rossi, an Italian architect, was also an influential architectural theorist in the 20th-century. The Architecture of the City was published in 1984 which was his major work of architectural and urban theory. In the introduction, Rossi points out that the embodiment of artistic intentions and the creation of a better living environment are two eternal features of the building. The building gives the community a particular image…