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be unconsciously emulated in modern design. Van de Velde still influences young architects and designers today. He has been a force in architectural theory since the 19th century at the Deutscher Werkbund; influencing minds like Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Mies Van der Rohe, who ultimately shaped the architecture of the modern style. Today, the ideas of Van de Velde have helped to dictate the vision of Starchitects like Zaha Hadid and her office of parametric magicians…

9 Palms Manifesto Bernd 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…

The struggle between good and evil is a powerful theme in the book. The most prominent example of this is Valjean's battle to transform from an immoral, miserable convict to a truly good man. The candlesticks are a very powerful symbol of love, that drives Valjean through his transformation. Misery is represented at the very beginning of the book, with the imagery of the protagonist and his interactions and dialogue with other characters. He has just gotten out of prison and is looking for…

In movies and books, the most intense moment has to be the plot twist. Usually this occurs when the audience's attention is grabbed, and the author or director changes the story for what could be better or worse. In Les Miserables, the movie based on the book by Victor Hugo, we find a huge plot twist right at the very end of the movie. Throughout the film we watch Javert and Valjean interact with each other and by watching the movie once the viewer loves Valjean’s kindness and compassion for…

twenty foot wall where there is no hope for survival; only darkness awaits. The flower tries to reach the sun, but the wall keeps on growing and allows no light to shine through. Fantine is the flower, and society is the wall and the water. In the novel Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, society is more to blame than Fantine for her fall. For instance, Fantine suffers because society does not accept her, since she is unmarried with a daughter. Also, society is unsympathetic causing her to fall.…

Did you know that the most appealing number to the eye is 1.618? This number is known as the Golden Ratio. In fact, our brains are seemingly hard-wired to prefer objects and images that use the Golden Ratio. The Golden Ratio is the limit of the ratios of successive terms of the Fibonacci sequence. The Fibonacci ratio is very close to the Golden ratio. The mathematical ideas the Fibonacci Sequence leads to, the Golden Ratio, and the Golden Spirals. As the number increases, the ratio becomes…

Published in these works, Le Corbusier declared that “a house is a machine for living in” and “a curved street is a donkey track; a straight street, a road for men.” He started to imply that a new architecture, one that would be defined over many generations, would fulfill the…

foothold in South America, with focus mainly on creating an appropriate image of modern architecture for their non-affluent tropical setting. The completed Brasília offers reflectance of both the acceptance and rejection of this European modernism. Le Corbusier was one of the forerunners of European modernism. He built City for Three Million back in 1922, which appeared to play a clear impact on the design of Brasília.…

Introduction This essay seeks to analyse the theoretical reasoning behind Louis Kahn’s approach towards non-details in his built work based on the definition of details as set out by Edward R. Ford in his publication, “The Architectural Detail.” and how it can be adapted to suit the design strategies of a multi-generation apartment. Detail is defined as “attention to or treatment of a subject in individual or minute parts”. The architectural detail starts off as a constructive or technical…

The twentieth century was an exciting period in European architectural history, it was a period of Modernism development. The early part of the period was focused on an approach by a group of architects who desired to reflect historical precedents and develop something completely new during their time. Instead of focusing on the traditional architecture such as ornaments, the architects during that time created a new aesthetic look using new materials and new structural approaches. This time of…