Architect

The greatest architects of the renaissance include Filippo Brunelleschi, Leon Battista Alberti, Giuliano da Sangallo, Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Palladio. The renaissance was a the time of religious art this means that there were lots of cathedrals and churches being built. The renaissance movement started in Florence, Italy, with Filippo Brunelleschi. He was the first architect to design a dome and come up with a way to build said dome that would go on the Florence Cathedral.…

Florence Cathedral. The main motivation for the discovery, aside from the lack of a roof, was a combination of popularity and fame along with a generous monetary prize that would be given to the person with the best design plans for the Dome.Many architects came from all over the world to attempt to win the prize and the fame. Many failed in bringing the right type of design for the Dome, only one had the crazy idea to build not one but two Domes which would support each other. Brunelleschi had…

Pennsylvania, he worked for The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Harper’s. Clearly, Erik Larson is a highly decorated and accomplished writer. The Devil in the White City simultaneously tells the stories of the architects who designed the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, and a serial killer who took advantage of the World Fair to kill several unsuspecting tourists. Larson contrasts the brilliance of the fair’s…

Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie’s life embodies the true American rags to riches story. Andrew Carnegie was the son of a man with many struggles to find jobs. Due to his father’s struggles, Andrew Carnegie began to work at many different jobs; he worked in two factories before he found a stable job at a railroad company. Andrew Carnegie rose through the ranks at the company until becoming the secretary for the superintendent. His many trips to England brought his eye to steel which would later…

continued to document the evolution of buildings today. 2. How did the photographs and houses illustrate “modernism” and the “new world” utopias of the 1950s and1960s? Provide examples. Architects believed they could improve the quality of life through progressive designs. It was through his images that the architects message could be read. 3. How were these housing styles promoted to average Americans in the mass media? • Why are the images and design of the Case Study House #22 so famed…

Egyptian architecture was one of the most technologically advanced building systems of it's time. They were capable of constructing elaborate and stunning structures out of nothing but stone. A lot of highlights of Egyptian architecture and style would be their dedication to the afterlife which is seen on many walls and inside burial chambers and other artifacts found in excavation sites. Also a key feature of Egyptian Architecture and design was their use of large columns that were both…

Hieronymus Fabricius, a progressive and driven man, sat anxiously at his University of Padua desk flipping through stacks of notes. Fabricius had been up all night rehearsing and defending his dream. Another hour went by until, ready to face The Senate of Venice, Fabricius stood abruptly, folded a few select notes, and took off for the meeting room. Fabricius walked briskly and with intention, he was about to enter a meeting deciding the fate of his hopeful architectural endeavour. Fabricius, a…

and during the restoration a building mason discovered that the massive brick walls concealed an internal wooden structure. This wooden structure was a frame made out of intricately tied thin studs that ran the entire height of the church. The architect liked the look of a brick finish, so they used the bricks as a decorative finish on both the inside and outside wall. When the construction required a stone wall, they used a brick-like painted pattern over the stone to resemble the look of a…

Education Education in architecture has changed drastically after the rise in credential architects that begins in the 1880s. Before this, architecture education was based on apprenticeship system where student will learn first-hand from a mentor that they chose. They will learn from that one mentor everything about architecture for the next 10 to 20 years. École des Beaux Arts, in the early 19th century was established by the French state to create a new method of reproduction for architecture…

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter, architect, inventor, and student of all things scientific. He is known as the “Renaissance man.” Today he is best known for his art, including a couple of paintings that are still a few of the world’s most famous and admired, The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Art, da Vinci believed, was connected with science and nature. Self-educated, he filled dozens of secret notebooks with inventions, observations and theories. The concepts expressed in his…