Architect
Architects and Creative Work
"You could not help getting this sense of hope that architecture was ultimately poetry and art, transcending accommodation, shelter, and program." This statement...
Speyer Cathedral*
The beautiful Speyer Cathedral belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage Site and is almost the only representative of the old Romanesque style in architecture...
Green architecture
Architects are responding in different ways to issues surrounding carbon emissions, energy consumption and climate change. The resulting green architecture is partly about adopting...
Deconstructivism – an architecture of fragmentation
Many buildings of the last two decades of the 20th century seemed to make their effect by means of fragmentation—they were structures that seemed...
From Vitruvius to Green Architecture
The ancient Greek writer Plutarch records an incident from the Spartan king Leotychidas’ visit to Corinth. The king was led to a room for...
African and Oceanic Art, Picasso and Le Corbusier
In 1906, various Parisian artists individually claimed to have “discovered” important artistic attributes in African sculptural artifacts. Who made this discovery and how it...
Alternative architecture
The search for sustainability takes people on long journeys. For some, the only way to live is to build outside the normal constraints of...
An architecture for ordinary people? Modernism
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...
High-tech
Most people are familiar with the term “high-tech,” a combination of words that is used widely to describe the type of design that uses...
Contemporary classicism
Frustrated by the limitations of most contemporary architecture, a few architects have returned to classicism. Although they have suffered criticism and charges of pastiche...
