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and practical aspects. Design a 1 bedroom eco-lodge. The cliens are a young couple who are environmentally consious and artistic. The area is a rectangular shaped block of 12m x 6m. The design needs to reflect the designs of either a well-known architect or era of architecture. The American Radiator Building (also known as The American Standard Building) was built in Manhattan, New York City in 1924. Being Raymond Hood’s first construction in New York City as well as his last work in Art Deco…

work by Victorian Government (Owen, C, 2012). Should architectural profession follow the similar rules? What are the benefits and challenge for architectural practices to provide pro bono services? It is said in the ‘good deeds in design’, that architects doing pro bono services are aimed to meet professional obligations to provide a public service and to help architectural profession achieve more social values…

Mustang; Engineering and Agriculture dominate the pages. This shows the lack of focus given to the Architecture program at the time. The next mentions of activity in the Graveyard is on April 3, 1964, in which an article talked of a group of senior architects that built a “Shell House” in Poly Canyon using a fast and cheap alternative to wood. This Shell House played an important role in the popularization of the Graveyard, because come Poly Royal, mentions of it are made again. In the April…

A Finnish architect, became a Phenomenologist in 1957 when he was inspired by one of his mentor, Professor Aulis Blomstedt. A quote from the man, Juhani Pallasmaa, Buildings are not abstract, meaningless construction, or aesthetic compositions, they are extensions and shelters of our bodies, memories, identities and minds. Consequently, architecture arises from existentially true confrontations, experiences, recollections and aspirations (The Thinking Hand. Existential and embodied wisdom in…

Architectural influence of the culture does not occur on its own; Architects across the world are always influenced by their culture through their knowledge, skills, behavior, experience earned in their country through their own education system and every education systems is created based on their society needs and through…

words, a building should function as a beneficial change. Using sculptures as a comparison to architecture, Price stresses on the requirement for flexible design in preparation of future uses of the same volumes. Also, the writer believes that the architects’ purpose in design includes the…

2 Objective Architecture in the 21st century, a world conscious of environmental limits and cultural diversity, towards a technological globalisation. What strategies could enable the potential for manifesting an ethical intentionality inherent in the architectural profession and how is this ethical intentionality affected in Public Architecture, where the individual client is substituted by civil society? This research paper aims to investigate a theoretical supposition in the fields of…

building still in use. Being a former brownfield site, the LEED Platinum building gives bright company for the dark structures surrounding it. The team chose for the project were Centerbrook Architects and Planners, as Executive Architect, collaborated on the project with the Design Architects, Hopkins Architects out of London,…

metaphysical, observed, perceived. It is for example, like our favorite song, it goes much deeper than just lyrics and melodies it creates a connection between us and the feeling, experience, or memory we link that song to when we hear it. “When an architect thinks about space, he or she is thinking about a relationship, not an objective phenomenon - human space, not scientific space.” The United States Bankruptcy Courthouse is a historical building located in the Park Avenue Historic District…

strong appeal is mainly because of his quest for freedom in architecture. In my point of view, along with the society’s advance, minimalist architects from new generation, for instance, Kazuyo Sejima from Japan, are able to walk further than the functionalism in the past. From her point of view, architecture is a medium for a person…