Craftsman

Joints is a key for tectonic, tectonic is a key for construction. The idea of architecture design in this exhibition will be different. Comparing to typical design strategies, which means analysis programs need or volume operation, this exhibition starting from smallest component, joint, to face the architectural discourse. How to apply or face the joints of architecture will show the difference attitude we face to our spacial design. Tectonic is a way to connect components, is a kind of…

In the 19th century Karl Marx, a university educated philosopher, started a job as a journalist. He was forced into writing about economics and popularized the term capitalism, which in his point of view was very negative. When he began to collaborate with Friedrich Engels, a German radical, his theoretical ideas of capitalism really started to take shape. Engels had observed and studied some of the factories that his father owned in England and was horrified by the working conditions of the…

The Great Lyre from Ur The Great Lyre with Bull’s Head is the oldest stringed instrument found by an archeologist Leonard Woolley in the 1920s. This valuable historical relic is now well-preserved in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The lyre was created between c. 2600 BCE and c. 2500 BCE during the Sumerian Period. It was discovered in a royal tomb from an ancient Mesopotamian city named Ur and its contemporary location is Muqaiyir, Iraq. The lyre looks…

Prolific French philosopher Henri Lefebvre once wrote that the tendency to reduce space ‘to parcels, to images, to facades that are made to be seen and to be seen from’, is a tendency that degrades the very notion of it. Architecture inhabits space, the concept of which, albeit difficult to grasp is made possible through the interpretations of those who populate it. It is even possible to say that there are as many places as people in a space. This concept is central to the discourse of…

sincerely serious and every now and again dubious movies that characterized American film history and mainstream culture. Kazan, who discovered first accomplishment on Broadway in the 1930s, had a striking capacity to reevaluate himself as a craftsman—turning splendidly and easily from stage to screen and, in…

betrayed the democratic principles on which he rode to power, which is showcased in Animal Farm as Napoleon has very little interest in the farm itself, but rather his power over it. Napoleon can stand for any of the great dictators and political craftsman in world history, even those who arose after Animal Farm was written, “George Orwell takes into account the problem of being human in the modern world surrounded by the concurrent risks of world wars. Orwell’s generation was the first which…

This was not a planned demonstration of the craftsman, as sweeps show that initially she was given both. It is conceivable that the shading color utilized for these facial elements has subsequent to blurred or been incidentally evacuated amid cleaning. The Mona Lisa epitomizes Leonardo's…

William Shakespeare was their oldest living child, as they had two daughters that did not live beyond infancy. He had three brothers and two sisters. William’s father John was a prosperous business person, he was a glove maker, a craftsman, he sold wool and traded general goods and products needed for farming. He married Mary Arden, she came from a prominent family, and with this marriage he gained land. With his financial success he was able to but a house on Henley Street, and eventually…

Once the ideas have reached their final form the craftsman comes into play, as they have to expertly translate their own thoughts into something tangible. Through ink, line and texture an idea becomes translated, and everything has to be considered for it to become fully realized as intended. The texture…

What do you think of when you hear the expression “The Dark Ages”? Many historians were led to believe that the Middle Ages was a time period in which people did nothing and nothing was accomplished. Yet, after studying artifacts and writings, they realized that this time period was not “dark” in that sense. The question that could be asked then is this; "Is ‘the Dark Ages’ an appropriate term to describe the Middle Ages?" I will provide information on why the Dark Ages may not be an appropriate…