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Maya Lin is an American designer, artist, and architect, most known for her historic memorials. One of her goals in design is to focus on elements and demonstrate naturally occurring phenomena’s in nature which can even be seen right here in Grand Rapids at Rosa Park Circle. Using water as her inspiration for the park, she demonstrates each form that it takes right here in Michigan. Her designs have an incredible ability to encourage people to gather together in open spaces while teaching them…

haven or refuge for those fortunate enough to reside within. To quickly summarize, the village mayor is the ‘first’’ owner of the property with his four daughters. Unfortunately none of his daughters marry thus dividing the land in the 1930s. An architect purchases the property…

Abraham’s sacrifice of his son Isaac. (Bishop, 7th edition, 196) Afterwards, I went to see Brunelleschi’s Dome at the Florence Cathedral. The dome was massive in size and Brunelleschi was the only architect that could make the dome happen. The dome was the beginning of Brunelleschi’s career as an architect.…

forever. It also was for Djoser’s eleven daughters so they could live in the afterlife. Djoser also made a wall to surround the area his tomb was in which was called Saqqara. Saqqara also had the tombs of Djoser’s family members and workers like, architects, children, and more.…

“When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.” He indicates that the intelligent people who knew about law gave…

World renowned British Architect, Richard Rogers was a modernist who integrated his concern for advanced technology in his work. He described his high-tech approach as “celebrating the components of the structure”. He is well-known for his part in the Centre Pompidou in Paris (partner Renzo Piano) and the Lloyd’s of London Building in London. Richard George Rodgers was born July 23, 1933, in Florence Italy. Before studying at the Architectural Association School in 1953-1959, Richard severed in…

ultra-contextual architecture, has defined ARM’s practice so far and has shaped its own influence to Australian architecture.27 Reflecting from Philip Goad, Lyons build pictures while ARM pictures building.28 Both Lyons and ARM as contemporary architect firms show a dense, sustained level of experimentation and production of knowledge and ideas in this figurative path. Postmodernism supported a return to ‘meaning in architecture’, it aims at the re-establishment of typical and significant…

In the late 19th century, another famous American architect — Franck Lloyd Wright, who was an employee of Sullivan’s studio, inherited Sullivan’s idea about relationship between form and function. Wright thinks that architecture should be loyal to not only structure and purpose of itself, but also time, site, and the environment. Based on the idea of organic architecture, combining his practice in “Prairie Style,” Wright had further developed Sullivan’s idea forward it to a more throughout…

GRAPHIC ANALYSIS BUILDING: ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL Background The St. Paul’s Cathedral is built on 18911. It is located in the eastern corner of Flinders Street and Swanston Street, which is near the Federation Square and Town Hall. Moreover, the location was originally the first Christian Service for public in 18362. And at last decided to be the site for St. Paul’s Cathedral after a debate from various suggestions places, for instance in Fitzroy Square, Flagstaff Garden etc. The condition for…

how to build the city. Then Thomas Jefferson proposed a design competition on the designs of the Capitol and the President’s Mansion. An amateur architect named William Thornton won the competition and his design was approved and was the first Architect of the Capitol. The design was later modified by Benjamin Latrobe a famous British-American architect and then Charles Bulfinch. The capitols was partially burned after the British torched it in the 1814. The reconstruction began in 1815 led by…