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Efficiency in Architecture
It happens that a traveler returns from distant lands completely unrecognizable. This also happened to the skyscraper in its paranoid-critical journey across the Atlantic.
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Analysis of trapezoidal city squares
On the larger side of the trapezoid, along the axis of movement and symmetry of the square, the main dominant building of the ensemble...
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Examples and features of constructing perspectives of various architectural objects
The perspective construction was carried out from the same observation point in the plan by the method of projections to the vertical, along with...
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Architectural elements of the composition
In high-rise structures consisting of various volumes in the form of stepped, tiered and other compositions, when viewed from below, significant closures of the...
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All treatises talk about the need for self-knowledge, reading the "scroll" of one's being and the world. In other words, the process of cognition is presented as a constant search for similarity relations and connections between man and the...
Conquered by the Arabs in 711-713. In the 11th century. the Christian states of northern Spain returned part of the conquered territories, including Toledo, in 1085. 1212 - the defeat of the Moors in the battle of Las Navas...
Futurism
Italian futurism began as a movement of artists and writers and spread to architecture in the visionary work of Antonio Sant’Elia. Although he built...
The Terra Amata Huts
Unlike clothes, buildings cannot be squeezed into the back of our closet or taken to the local charity shop when no longer in fashion;...
Features of the style of architecture of Russian architecture
What are the features of this style?
The traditions of the cross-dome system are preserved.
Local limestone is used, from the blocks of which...
Architecture takes control. Inventing Interior Space
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, panoramas were particularly popular in large European cities. Panoramas were specially built circular halls, which received their...
The magic of the city. Igmil-Sins’s House
Today, one in two people live in cities in a world shaped by the civilization created within them. Most probably, all readers of this...
Perspective
An understanding of perspective is essential in order to gain a full appreciation of the aesthetic quality of towns, and is necessary in order...
Categorizing the Architectural Utopia in the Genre of Science Fiction
First of all I would like to start with a definition what science fiction architecture is, and more importantly what it is not. I...
Verbal Text in Architecture – A Text within a Text
From the semiotic viewpoint, architecture is not only transmedial (in which case its specimens in their constitution can be likened to verbal texts that...
Architectural Drawings New Uses in the Architectural Design Process
Architectural drawings role as a source of inspiration as well as a means for interpreting the past has always been key within the architectural...
