Architect
Genesis and context of the modern movement
Modernism in architecture emerged at the beginning of the 20th century. It was a natural consequence of the growing feeling in avant-garde circles that...
Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright
The outstanding architect and theorist Louis Henry Sullivan (1856–1924) and, following him, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) blazed the modernist trail on the American continent....
Spiral Village-Australian village of the future
Climate change occurring on the globe motivates the search for innovative solutions in architecture. An interesting concept was presented by Italian work Valentino Gareri...
Sun Rock – self-sufficient energy building in Taiwan
The MVRDV studio presented the project of a self-sufficient energy building called sun rock. The facility will be built in Changhua coastal industrial park...
Architecture – dissenting opinion
Architecture (at least, the area in which we are currently interested in) is part of the "art of life". Ideas expressed by architectural means...
What is Architecture?
What is architecture? If we ask ten people, we get ten different answers based on the demographic disparity like education, culture, chronological age, the...
Architecture in Southern Gaul
Written sources of that period of time tell us that in Southern Gaul (as in Gaul in general) there were icons painted on wooden...
Architecture of apartment buildings of the modern era
The general structure of apartment buildings of the modern era was quite stable, its evolution was slow. This architectural type, unlike mansions, is constrained...
Mystical interpretation of Light
Which came to the medieval theology of Western Europe in translations of the works of St. Dionysius the Areopagite ("Pseudo-Dionysius") John Scott Eriugena, had...
Symmetry breaking
In such a clear violation of symmetry, so beloved in early and high scholasticism, one can see the "Occam" dilemma of empiricism, visually confirming...
