Architect
Progress in engineering as a challenge for architects
The innovations and the development of engineering that gave an impetus to the Industrial Revolution also prepared the ground for revolutionary changes in the...
Dissonance between the engineering potential and the academic tradition
The development of innovative technologies opened up undreamt of possibilities for the creation of space and building in architecture. However, despite the enormous transformations...
Modernism. Definitions, characteristics, leaders of Modernism
Just as the concept of modernity can be understood in different ways, there have been many definitions of modernism in the literature and art...
Concept of elementary composition
The academic textbooks from the turn of the century also confirm the isolation of academic circles. Professor Julien Guadet emphasizes the importance of composition...
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...
