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....
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 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...
Architectural fantasies
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
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
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
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
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
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
The patterns of architectural composition - the artistic subordination of the "fixed" elements of the spatial whole - are replaced by others. First of...
Defance is a typical environmental ensemble
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
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
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
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...
