Architectural design

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Discuss how these buildings compare to others of the same times period. At a quick glance, the Gamble and Lovell homes could not be more different and for the most part that is a correct evaluation. There are however some similarities. The designs take advantage of Southern California’s climate and their natural environment. The Gamble House with a sleeping porch and transition spaces from indoors to outdoor patios, garden and pond while the Lovell House has open transition space to the…

Looking at sculptures and paintings in person or in a museum rather than looking at them on a flat screen can drastically change the way you take in the artwork in many different ways. One good example is the Ladder for Booker T. Washington by Martin Puryear, which, in person, was vastly larger than I expected. When looking at an artwork in the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, you get to observe details and witness different focal points that you would most likely miss looking at a computer. In…

One of the most waited for events, in an architectural sense, was the completion of Paul Rudolph’s Yale Art and Architecture building in 1963 a postwar American Architectural event. Also known as the A&A it was considered Rudolph’s master piece as it promised to be the solution to solving modernism’s major unsolved problems. As New York Times critic Ada Louise Huxtable said, “it asks and answers some of the major questions facing the art of architecture today, at a time of crisis and transition…

Commentary Campus Richie Riches Need Archies March 01, 2002|BOB SHIREMAN | Bob Shireman, program director for higher education at the James Irvine Foundation, served as an education aide to President Clinton. Web site: www.irvine.org. Email Share Perhaps you have seen USC's advertisements playfully objecting to the "University of Spoiled Children" moniker that some had given the institution in years past. The ad made me wonder: If the spoiled children aren't at USC, where are they? They must be…

Think Piece #4 Wordcount: A few months ago my mother and I took a trip to St Augustine and while we were there saw many beautiful buildings. My favorite in particular was the Hotel Ponce de León now known as Flagler College. Built in 1888 by Henry Flagler it was used as a hotel until 1967 and then turned into Flagler College. This beautifully intricate building is made of sand, coquina shell gravel, and cement. The building itself is a gray…

½ years later the Gateway Arch has become one of America’s iconic symbol of growth and prosperity. The Gateway Arch is located in St. Louis Missouri, it’s also on the east side of the Mississippi River. Eero Saarinen an architect came up with the design and won a contest from it. The Gateway arch is a fascinating historical structure built through the hard work of American men, linked to Lewis and Clark Westward Expansion and intended to remind us of our forefather’s committee to America. II.…

architecture to describe designs as a response to the site; correlating the built form with the landscape as a strategy to persuade the public to accept ambitious designs. Heymann asserts that few architects create designs that are a true response to the unique characteristics of a site (like Glenn Murcutt); rather, most architects use elements of the site to generate an abstracted…

02 | ROLES The Design The emergence of diverse interests has separate the former unified role of the demand as the property’s owner, financier and prospective user hence adding complication in the construction process. To accommodate the rise of diversified role, architectural services also need to have variety in producing a better built environment. The provision of services which includes detail designs, visualizations, specifications, energy calculations, cost planning, regulations consent…

The sections we read were part of a larger study by Toby Huitson into the uses and purposes of the upper spaces in Gothic Cathedrals. Throughout the text, he looks at many possible uses for different spaces based on surviving texts and architectural cues. Huitson looks at why we don’t know their specific uses at the time of construction along with what they were used for later on as a possible window into the original intention of the spaces. In his research, Huitson looks at old writings…