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    Held at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, was the first annual ACM Party for A Cause music festival. The two-three-day music festival is an outdoor charitable music event, that leads up to one of country’s largest music award shows. The Academy of Country Music awards. Party for A Cause is a charitable event that raises awareness and funds for a variety of charities. The festival includes, live music from top country artists, food trucks, and fan interactive experiences. Most importantly, the…

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    The Expression of Architecture The language is the capacity of transmit and receive some information and understand this message, giving it a signification. It is the base of all communication and exchange in human being interaction. This pattern is not only speaking or texting, all human act have meaning and can transfer some idea – architecture, by it forms and shapes, can express a lot. After The Second Word War a new aesthetic, called Modernism, made architecture and all society to change…

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    By Le Corbusier aiming to remove these features his design shows that it was aimed to improve social standards and it therefore has a sense of social morality. His belief was that architecture has an important part to play in helping social change and development which illustrates the fact that the Radiant City is “but a social work of Image 3 art” (Hawthorne, 2013). The design of The radiant City also features social morality in its…

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    The Bauhaus was an art school in Germany Dessau, it was built with the idea of generating an overall work of art in which all arts, cultures, and architecture be unified and modernized. The Bauhaus style is considered one of the most influential masterpieces in the modern design. The school was developed in the 1900's under the hands of three different architects. The founder and the creator of the Bauhaus was Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer took the lead after Walter from 1928…

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    Linearity and Organic Architecture Modernisms - AR548 Jed Cracknell Word Count: • Introduction o Nature in modern architecture o Leading to organic architecture Linearity is a theme seen throughout architecture from the modernist era. It is present in many different styles such as Frank Lloyd Wrights Prairie School Style of architecture seen around the 1890’s to 1920’s. Following this Frank Lloyd Wright’s Textile style of architecture is seen to have strong links to…

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    Design a 1 bedroom eco-lodge. The cliens are a young couple who are environmentally consious and artistic. The area is a rectangular shaped block of 12m x 6m. The design needs to reflect the designs of either a well-known architect or era of architecture. The American Radiator Building (also known as The American Standard Building) was built in Manhattan, New York City in 1924. Being Raymond Hood’s first construction in New York City as well as his last work in Art Deco style, this 23-story…

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    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 in the development of the…

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    Modernism In Latin America

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    Successful modern architectures have been survived throughout the world. Those architectures were adapted themselves to new circumstances so-called ‘region’ Since First World War, global modernism had a big impact on the Latin America. Modernism has become the dominant global movement. Not only modern architecture appears European cities and United States, but also a lot of Latin America cities have started have modern style of architectures. It was not familiar to area where they have their own…

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    Le Corbusier

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    grandfather’ of modern architecture. In this essay, I will be discussing how Le Corbusier’s work in painting and in architecture, was breaking traditions of the past and embracing new ways of doing art. When Le Corbusier moved to Paris, he met Amédée Ozenfant, a painter and designer who introduced him to Cubism. A purely modern movement, created with the intention of presenting elements…

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    “form follows function”, as quoted from Louis Sullivan, the famous Frank Llyod Wright’s mentor. Wright was one of the pioneers of Modern Architecture and his masterpiece, the Fallingwater, was perhaps his best interpretation of Modernism. Located in rural Southwestern of Pennsylvania, the Fallingwater is so popular that it is often mentioned in many architecture books regarding its application to the site. B.B. Pfeiffer mentioned the concept of Fallingwater in the book “Master Builders”. “Let…

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