Architecture

Severn River in Coalbrookdale

Progress in engineering as a challenge for architects

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The innovations and the development of engineering that gave an impetus to the Industrial Revolution also prepared the ground for revolutionary changes in the...
L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris

Dissonance between the engineering potential and the academic tradition

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The development of innovative technologies opened up undreamt of possibilities for the creation of space and building in architecture. However, despite the enormous transformations...
Architect Alvar Aalto

Modernism. Definitions, characteristics, leaders of Modernism

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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

Concept of elementary composition

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The academic textbooks from the turn of the century also confirm the isolation of academic circles. Professor Julien Guadet emphasizes the importance of composition...
Modernism in architecture

Genesis and context of the modern movement

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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

Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright

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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....
Architecture

What is Architecture?

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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...
Architecture of apartment buildings

Architecture of apartment buildings of the modern era

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The general structure of apartment buildings of the modern era was quite stable, its evolution was slow. This architectural type, unlike mansions, is constrained...
Architectural fantasies

Architectural fantasies

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The term discreteness characterizes the space-time limitation of the elements and states of the object. Continuity is understood as the relationship of elements and...
Architecture is an extraordinarily multifaceted phenomenon

Architecture is an extraordinarily multifaceted phenomenon

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To understand the true essence of architecture, it is necessary to consider it from different sides, to determine what role it plays in society,...

Architecture of Moscow at the beginning of the XVII century

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At the beginning of the XVII century . there was a struggle with the Polish-Swedish intervention, there was economic ruin, so almost no monumental...
Houses of strict classicism

Houses of strict classicism

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The most common type of house of strict classicism is a prismatic compact volume with a central hall and rooms bypassing it around the...
Architects and their work

Architects and their work

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Adopting some techniques of its compositional activity from architecture, environmental design conceptually changes its priorities - from the construction of formal spatial subordinations to...
Architectural and design components of modern urban ensembles

Architectural and design components of modern urban ensembles

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A specialist working in the conditions of dynamic transformation of all types of urban environment should be well aware of the objective trends and...
Patterns of architectural composition

Patterns of architectural composition

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The patterns of architectural composition - the artistic subordination of the "fixed" elements of the spatial whole - are replaced by others. First of...
the London Barbican

Defance is a typical environmental ensemble

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In the colossal territorial exposition, construction and design ideas and solutions, engineering and landscape systems and works of monumental and decorative art are presented...
Early Renaissance Architecture

Early Renaissance Architecture

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When, after the "Gothic reaction" of the second half of the XIV - beginning of the XV century, architects and artists again turned to...
Architectural and artistic solutions in the city space

Architectural and artistic solutions in the city space

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In the urban interior, the relative independence of the spatial structure from the development of those elements of which it consists, acutely poses the...
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...