Landscape architect

Italian Renaissance (ital. Rinascimento-"rebirth" or "born again") – a period in the history of European culture, which replaced the culture of the Middle Ages and the previous culture of modern times. Renaissance art emerged based on humanism-- currents of public thought, which originated in the XIV century. In Italy, and then during the second half of the XV and XVI centuries spread to other European countries. Humanism is proclaimed the highest value of man and his benefit. The followers of…

Have you ever wondered why you remember graphic description more than textual description? It is because graphics expedite and escalate the level of understanding more than text. Randy Krum, a designer and author says, “people love using pictures to communicate because its hardwired into the human brain.” Information is poured out daily; the digital age has made it accessible to all. We lack the time to go through copious data; infographics represent the same boring data in an interesting and…

The artists were also involved in finding solutions for visual problems and perspective of mathematics was developed in that time. The painted picture was thought to be the window to nature and painters painted many natural types of scenery like landscapes, flowers, trees, mountains, plants and skies etc. Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most famous artists of renaissance period and he introduced a whole new idea of art. There are many other scientists and artists but Leonardo is my favorite…

Different from all architects at his time, Frank Lloyd Wright, Sullivan's disciple, treated rules as something to be broken when needed. Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture was rooted in nature; he called it organic. How did he make his organic architecture apply to time, to environment and to man? How did he merge environment to urban and rural buildings with the use of different materials? Wright chose the word organic to describe his architecture and first used the term in a public address in…

Pui Tak Center: 2216 S. Wentworth Pui Tak Center was once the On Leong Merchants Association Building where the On leong group used to be. The society also once resided in Mott Street in New York's Chinatown. The Chinese started coming to Chicago in smaller numbers after 1870, After the 20th century less than 1,200. Until the 1940s when federal laws only allowed men to enter with only a few exceptions, chinatowns over america were populated with chinese men. Groups called Tongs were formed…

being the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Athena. The temple of Athena was designed by Pytheos (or Pythius) who was the architect of the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halikarnassos, regarded as one of the seven wonders of the world. The structure was likely one of the first buildings constructed at the newly founded Priene and is situated at a natural rise in the landscape with the acropolis looming above it. Like most of the architecture still standing at Priene, the temple was constructed…

conception of architecture, begin the design and planning of the city with the profile of the landscape in order to emphasize the vertical aspect and elements with the development of the most important and representative buildings in the Ottoman Empire such as the mosques, the madrasas, the baths (hamams), the caravanserais, the kulliyes, the bazaars…etc. With Mimar Sinan, one of the most important architects of the Ottoman Empire, this concept further developed to a point that the mosque became…

1 Dedek The history of Rome is a fascinating and an extraordinary one. During its existence, the city has gone through multiple transformations, and it has experienced a variety of captivating events and phenomena. While the history of Rome is remarkable and unique, it can, interestingly, be compared and analyzed against a modern version of a great metropolis, which is Chicago. In evaluating the Roman culture in the relationship to the American cultural system, one can point out many…

any of these buildings by Frank Gehry, it takes… 60 to 80 percent more metal and steel and construction than it would to enclose that space in a normal way…” said architect James Wines (Hosey, 2013). Frank Gehry’s design might be compelling, but it failed to be a good design because it is negligent. Yet the irony, some sustainable architects have created far worst buildings. Although they might have claimed and justified their work to be sustainable in a way that it is saving the environment, it…

Time’, ‘space’, ‘place’ are some of the frequently used (sometimes misused) terms in literature, and they have been defined in different ways and from various theoretical perspectives. In the colonial discourse, in particular, the concept ‘place’ was closely related to knowledge and power in so far as the process of mapping the ‘other spaces ‘ was deployed to reproduce dominant world view. While the tenants of imperialism are teleological, its practices have always been geographic. As Edward…