Les Misérables

analyse Le Corbusier’s The Radiant City (La Ville Radieuse) by looking at the unbuilt city scape’s historical, theoretical and philosophical background as well as how it was received and reviewed. Greenhalgh’s features of the Pioneer phase (such as Social Morality, Technology and Anti-historicism) will also be looked at in relation to how and why The Radiant City was conceptualised and designed. As the idea of The Radiant City was conceived in the 1930s (and by Modernist architect and artist Le…

Value Oscar Niemeyer's Modernism goes beyond the established principles of Le Corbusier and Mies, although it shares their essential qualities. Some of Niemeyer's work that defines both the International and Modern Styles are the structures of light based system and glass walls. However, there are relevance in culture and expression…

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…

There was also an increasing drive to create a more relevant architecture that was fueled by social purpose, as opposed to the overly ornamented, irrational, and out dated architecture that reigned throughout the 19th century, Ching (2007). The works of Le Corbusier, Peit Mondrian, De Stijl movement in the Netherlands, and the Bauhaus in German, contructivists in the Soviet union, pioneered the creation of an authentic, simple style of architecture that empasised; interpenetrating volumes,…

The primary case study used to fuel the design for our equine was La Llena. It is a beautiful example of architecture that functions well on multiple levels. Its concepts and ideas have played a large role our design and philosophy we would like to carry throughout the project. La llena is an equine center located in La Llacuna, outside of Barcelona, Spain. It functions as both an equine center and family home. It was designed by Vincent Sarrablo and Jaume Colom and finished in 2015. The…

John (3rd person) John has always wanted to be a soldier. To be a hero; a savior of lives that do not concern him. Yet he is lanky. With a skinny figure and a bent back he walks with shame in each step as he knows he will never achieve his dream. He also gets bullied at school. How could a victim, a poor excuse for a boy, ever be someone so great and so heroic when he can't even tell a man just a few months older than him with a better posture to back off. His clothes fit loosely around him as…

In the manor, Aalto brings out his knowledge about nature forest through the following ways of using materials: by using big glass windows to have an open view to the garden and by using the continuous pine-strip through the ceiling. There was various types of materials and textures were used for the floor. At the entrance he chose red slate tiles; Flooring materials at garden room and fireplace was natural stone. Alva Aalto brought the owner’s art passion to the house by creating an open…

• Urban growth machines were developed by John Logan and Harvey Moltoch. This concept was supposed to help institutions like realtors, local banks, politicians. Though it only reflected the self-interest of themselves its purpose is to show the economic competition with alternative investment opportunities and competing locales. • Both painters wanted to depict what was going on during the mid-nineteenth century. The Impressionists on Paris wanted to show the transformation of Paris through its…

Born on 5th March 1910 into a wealthy Taiwanese family in Kagi Country, Japanese Taiwan, Momofuku Ando was raised by his grandparents after the death of his parents. His grandparents inspired him to follow their path of business and start a textiles company. In 1933 he travelled to Osaka to study economics at Ritsumeikan University. He became a Japanese citizen following the Second World War. Ando lost his textile company to bankruptcy, following being convicted of tax evasion in 1948. He later…

“Functionalism – by all means is a strictly modern phenomenon but actually originates in classical antiquity” Giving the prodigious sense of a security but very different from that which is attained by the seeming immobility of the mass and weight of masonry. Concluded as one of the dominant successes of Woolworth, all will agree, it is an accomplishment of ‘scale’. Which assuming that the help of transformation the skyline of the city can be somehow added to the functions presumably from the…