Colonial Revival architecture

There seems to be an assumption that architecture has to be grand, but could architecture be a mundane structure? However, what comes to mind when someone thinks of architecture? Architecture is such an obscure term, that people determine the definition of architecture is various ways. Is the Eiffel Tower? How about the Great Wall of China? Or what about a Barnes & Noble? The last question could throw someone off. This essay considers texts from Rybczynski and Goldberger to look at Barnes &…

Jackson Coale Gott was born September 10, 1829 in Lake Roland, Baltimore County. He studied carpentry as a child and later studied architecture in the offices of several prominent local architects, while apprenticing with an unnamed carpenter and master builder while studying under private tutors. After his apprenticeship, he worked in the building industry for several years and in 1863, Gott opened his architectural office, according to the Baltimore City Directory. Gott was later elected an…

Sean Marcano 4 April 2016 History of Graphic Design Formal Writing: Designer Biography The innovative genius of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) has influenced the development of architecture and modern graphic design in immense and subtle ways. Frank Lloyd Wright should be given more credit for his influence on graphic design not only from his several digital designs but through his fine arts work as well, because of his unique style of experimenting with nature in his design and architectural…

Prefabrication has been used since ancient times. We can see that The Romans use prefabricated building elements to build their forts quickly and efficiently in newly conquered Britain in AD 43. But, as Herbers describes; the prefabrication as a word that describes building typology was not considered important before the 1930s. After that, it started to gain a seat in the building typology when the business of making building components show up in the substantial industry, and prebabrication…

There are many basic elements of the house resist standard modernist architecture elements. An enclosure ground floor set consistently on the ground, rather than glass walls which open up the ground floor. And a non-structural applique arch reflects a return to mannerist architecture. The use of wood, which is a nature material, make it looks more ambiguous or noncommittal. In addition, it has a gabled roof rather than the flat…

History of Construction: Cobblestone Cobblestone houses are one of the most identifiable structures. These types of houses date back to the early 1800's when many of the towns in the area of New York were being founded. For example, even when driving down many of the streets you can easily find houses like this scattered all across. They're marvelous to look at, yet can also be strange because there are only some of these houses that are built out of stone and not lumber. At first, these houses…

century. One such writer-artist was Dan Graham, who consistently published various written works related to his artistic production over more than four decades, tracing his journey through curation, performance, photography, video, installation and architecture. Graham’s work is based within conceptual art, an example of this being his ‘Schema’ (1966), which was a work he staged entirely…

Henry Van de Velde in Modern Architecture Henry Van de Velde existed during the movements of Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Modernism. He is said to be the father of both Art Nouveau and Modernism and the ideals and theories of design that belong to each movement. Van de Velde was a painter and architect obsessed with the activation of the line. The curve was a true form of organic expression and became an idea that accompanied the work of Van de Velde. Another desire of Van de…

and Hilla Becher were born in 1931 and 1934. They were german conceptual artists, first meeting at their college, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Collaborating on their first project in 1959, the pari photographed disappearing German industrial architecture. These works would be only done on 8x10 inch film. Always shot objectively, on cloudy days, to avoid shadows. They favoured early morning light as well. They arranged the photos in rows, helping to display the similarities of the different…

Cloud Gate’s qualities of “presentness” as lamented by Fried functions as a precursor that introduces elements of site and duration typically suited to an outdoor context or public realm. Rosalind Krauss notes that sculptors working in the minimalist idiom did so as they “had no faith in the ideals classical sculpture as founded on, and the only means by which they could explore the medium’s possibilities were to introduce the situational elements of placement and temporal duration” . Such a…