Barbican Center Housing, London, Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, 1965

An architecture for ordinary people? Modernism

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Richard Rogers mentioned in a lecture in 1979 that the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris—the Beaubourg, which had just been completed—is erroneously considered to...
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What is architecture? If we ask ten people, we get ten different answers based on the demographic disparity like education, culture, chronological age, the...
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Architectural objects

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Heritage

Le Corbusier Skyscrapers

Le Corbusier Skyscrapers

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Architecture of the second half of the XVI -first half of...

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Since 1569, after the formation of a single Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Ukrainian lands subject to Lithuania were included in the so-called crown lands, i.e....
Trompe l’oeil

Baroque

Burnham and Bennett, new plan for Chicago

The City Beautiful

Welwyn Garden City

Garden city

Schröder House, Utrecht

De Stijl

Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

Sequential sketches

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Rococo

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Archigram

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The British group Archigram formed in the 1960s as a forum for architectural discussions and ideas. Its projects existed mainly on paper, but its...
Welwyn Garden City

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Vitruvian proportions

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Pavilion at Drottningholm, Sweden

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Attempts to catalog all possible variants of planning solutions for individual residential buildings of mass construction have been made repeatedly. In particular, in England in the 1960s, annual catalogues of recommended planning solutions for small residential buildings were published with accompanying schemes that make it possible to understand the features of numerous layouts.

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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...
Monument to the Third International

Constructivism

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The Russian constructivist movement flourished briefly in the 1920s and 30s. Constructivist architects produced breathtaking modern designs, often glorying in unusual and innovative structures....
Deutsches Architekturmuseum

Architecture of Central Europe

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There are hardly any general works devoted to architecture on a pan-European scale. Even Pevsner's book, contrary to its name, cannot be recognized as...
Features of the style of architecture of Russian architecture

Features of the style of architecture of Russian architecture

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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...

Aalto and Japan: Towards an Architecture of Meaningful Envi- ronmental Integration

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Tokyo Skytree tower
The route of ideas and idioms is not a one-way journey, but (ōfuku, Japanese) – round trip. In contemporary Japanese architecture, we can find...

Japanese Traditions among the Inspirational Sources of Aalto’s Style

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Villa Mairea in Noormarkku
Aalto’s projects (particularly, Villa Mairea in Noormarkku, Pori and its own house in Riihitie, Helsinki) attract particular attention of architecture critiques investigating how these...

Knowledge in architecture: draughtsmanship or craftsmanship?

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Architectural draughtsmanship
What are draughtsmanship and craftsmanship in architecture and what is their relation? This question represents, of course, what could be called two distinct fields...

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Eurozone
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Spy Technology
In today's technologically advanced world, the business of spy technology is experiencing an unprecedented boom. From covert surveillance devices to high-tech gadgets, the industry...