Colonial Revival architecture

What is Postmodernism? According to Merriam Webster dictionary ,Post-Modernism is “of relating to or being any various movements in reaction to modernism that are typically characterized by a return to traditional materials and forms by ironic self reference and absurdity “ (Webster, Merriam). The very term "postmodern" was, in fact, coined in the forties by the historian, Arnold Toynbee (Felluga).Postmodernism cannot be historically a specific year, and however, its ideas are around the…

Check the Architect 's Work Experiences. A good way for you to see how good an architect is by looking at his previous work. This will allow you to determine an architect 's forte. Familiarizing yourself with the style of an architect allows you to look for an architect that understands your personal style. This is important when building your dream home. Looking at an architect 's previous works allows you to see the quality of his works. Referring to an architect 's previous creations will not…

Interior Design Theories: Meaning of Place, Place Attachment, and Artifact Attachment What is design theory? Design theory is the understanding of strategies, methods, research and analysis of the practice of design. What design theory does is: act as a frame work for analysis, facilitate development, application to real-world problems, provide criteria to judge and evaluate, and is the critical pillar of foundation in knowledge. In this paper we will be examining the theories meaning of place…

A volcanic earth was discovered in vast quantities around Rome called pozzolana (“The Architecture of”, 2008). This building material was used in conjunction with rock and broken brick to make concrete. Concrete was a much stronger building material than what Rome had been using before, and concrete became the answer for Rome’s engineering…

In the excerpt “the Four Books on Architecture” Palladio develops a numerical and logical system organizing spatial relationships among the elements involved in any building. This system is a guidance for architects when designing such buildings as villas and houses. As well this system includes detailed rules to be considered when an architect arranges building rooms, when he specifies the proportions of spaces, when he makes decisions about the dimensions of halls associating the height of a…

as “attention to or treatment of a subject in individual or minute parts”. The architectural detail starts off as a constructive or technical problem, but the detail can and should be able to indicate the architect’s design intent. Detail is architecture at its smallest scale. Even though detail is a minute part of the whole, it is able to intensify the intended quality of space. Details can both resolve construction problems as well as help one’s understanding of the building and help it…

1 INTRODUCTION Vernacular architecture may be described as an architectural style that marks the architecture of a place. It originates rendering the local needs, climatic & geographic factors, socio-economic and socio-cultural background of a place there by making it unique, identified and strong in itself. India, a country showcasing great cultural and geographical diversity, each part of which is having its own cultural identity and geographic…

According to arcology the principle idea of paolo soleri, his works are based on combination of ecology and architecture. His ideas were based on planning cities with integration of nature and built environment in which human interacts in sustainable way. His idea of arcology integrated aesthetics, value, compassion . The arcology principle mades its way to understand the growth of cities, urban sprawl which leads to expansion of city and rather reformate he reformulated from the base of the…

The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture. The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture by Pier Vittorio Aureli is very subjective. Architecture makes sense within the social, political and cultural dimension. It is represented through the ideal appearance of the built environment. In the title he has used the word absolute which refers to the marked boundary of a city. Urbanization for most architects is interchangeable, but for him it is a fundamental phenomena which is the division and…

One precipitant arts that belong to the phrase that architecture is the mother of the arts of those arts which is color I think what characterize the architecture are the compact components with each other and the make up of the architectural layout and the physical structure , Starting from the surface of the components of texture and color and the end of its components in the form of mass and vacuum. We will illustrate the physical structure of the work of the architect of during one of the…