Oh My Gosh

interrupted the nostalgia I was feeling from lying on my bed appreciating the array of star wars posters and memories plastered on my walls. There were only a few weeks until I started university and reach one step closer to reaching my dream of being an astrophysicist. I answered "Coming!" and began to make my way downstairs, as I was walking down the stairs something in the atmosphere felt different, as if something had changed and I couldn 't quite put my finger on it. Regardless, I kept…

case bigger than life. Athletes are plastered everywhere wearing of course the same clothes and brands an average person can buy. The first thing people see is the brand. The next thought being if I wear that brand I can be like that person. This in my opinion is Dick’s idea behind sales. That is why they have those posters of athletes hanging up around the…

steel members placed fairly close together. This is unlike the Mies’ house, which is supported by heavy steel members placed further apart, once again giving the Farnsworth…

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…

its traditionalists. Nothing in popular culture exemplifies this like the 2002 film “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.” In this film you see a traditional Greek father pressure his daughter into maintaining Greek values and expectations and in the process you observe various aspects of Greek culture including their values, symbols, and language which reflect some of my own personal experience with the Greek culture. “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” offers interesting…

Art deco’s elements are applied in the modern popular architecture and furniture The World War 1 is occurred between the Art Nouveau and the Art Deco. Both of two movements affected by the World War 1. They are two different style. The big difference of them is Art Nouveau is asymmetric while Art Deco is geometric. Both of two movements has affected our architecture and furniture, but for the effectiveness of the modern popular architecture and furniture, the role of Art Deco is bigger than Art…

As an activist, a thinker, and a writer, Jane Jacob observed patterns in the way cities were constructed in both physical and social aspects of their environments. For the first time in American history, a fresh and innovative, at the time radical, movement sprung up due to the observations and claims that Jacobs proposed in her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. During the 1950’s, modernism had already become an established (and universally accepted) ethos in American city…

Designer is clothing that present the recognition of a fashion designer. The founder of the company does not always create designer clothing. For example, the actual designer of Chanel is not it is original founder and designer, Gabrielle Chanel, but German designer. The quality of the clothing and degree of its resemblance, designer's work vary some terms may limit the number of garment styles that may be produced, allowing the designer to veto any designs he or she finds unappealing.…

The Architecture of the City (MIT Press, 1984), Aldo Rossi Aldo Rossi, an Italian architect, was also an influential architectural theorist in the 20th-century. The Architecture of the City was published in 1984 which was his major work of architectural and urban theory. In the introduction, Rossi points out that the embodiment of artistic intentions and the creation of a better living environment are two eternal features of the building. The building gives the community a particular image…

Appendices Appendix 1 ‘The Manhattan Transcripts’ by Bernard Tschumi “The Manhattan Transcripts is a theoretical project of drawings, they differ from the most architectural drawings insofar as they are neither real projects nor mere fantasies. They propose to transcribe an architectural interpretation of reality. To this aim, they use a particular structure indicated by photographs that either direct or ‘witness’ events (some would say ‘functions’, others would call them ‘programs’) At the…