Architect

1920s is a period of time in which architects were trying not only to create a piece of art, but also a whole new lifestyle. There are three great examples that reflect this evolutionary movement in the history of architecture, which are Schindler- Chace House, Le Corbusier’s Maison La Roche, Rietveld’s Schroderhuis, located in Los Angeles, Paris, and Utrecht respectively. In this essay, I am going to compare the similarities and differences these three houses have in terms of function, form,…

A Gothic arch is a curved structural device, usually of masonry, used to support a structure, as well as to expand an opening. The Gothic arch is one of the main components of medieval Gothic architectural design. The architects discovered the incredible strength and stability that was created by the use of pointed arches. The walls of Gothic buildings could be thinner because the weight of the roof was supported by the Gothic arches instead of the walls. The use of the…

the last argument is that the existence of evil when the God is known to be all good. One of the example Hume used was, if we see a house then we know that there is an architect behind it although we have never seen or told that there was an architect who builds this because of our prior knowledge of having been seen to architects structuring and the results are the houses we live in. But, to compare the example to the universe is impossible because of its greatness and its complexity. Humans…

well, for example, he used the methods that were described by Vitruvius to construct and detail the Piazza del Campidoglio. Vitruvius’s methods were used by the most historic artists during the Renaissance, which would inspire more artists and architects use his strategies in…

The depth at which these calculations led architects gave the building an organic quality that no other Greek construction could match. In a temple vertical lines should not be so in reality, if we want to appear as such. Horizontal or horizontal for the same reason. To find the perfect illusion…

Big business was on the rise, America was experiencing vast economic expansion, however, poverty still affected millions of Americans. Larson communicates the essential features of the Gilded age through his novel by showing the struggle that the architects and investors faced to make the world fair a success in the struggling economy, while also using the story of H.H Holmes as an analogy to depict the false perception of what America was during the Gilded age. The 1893 Chicago world's fair…

starts by asking the question of what happened in the time between the heroic period of post-war 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…

Within the UK, female architects convey marginalization arising during higher education where the ideas from the masculine body are perpetuated through competitions. Studies reflect that female construction workers have been bespoken to have an increased risk of stress-induced…

architecture to come. Frank Lloyd Wright’s early life was essential to him becoming a famous architect in his later years. Wright was born on June 8, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin (“Frank Lloyd Wright”). He was described as having an “unshakable optimism, messianic zeal and pragmatic resilience” (Lubow). His mother was from a family of Welsh immigrants…

Howard Roark in the book, “The Fountainhead”, is portrayed as a unrealistic hero. Many facts in the book as well as Ayn Rand's essay, “The Goal of My Writing”, support this proclamation. The first piece of evidence is the epoch (1920’s & 1930’s); throughout, the book the odds were always against Roark, also Ayn Rand wanted Roark to be seen as an unrealistic hero, in which she explains her reasoning for it in her essay, “ The Goal of My Writing.”. The Fountainhead takes place in the 1920’s & 30’s…