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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...
Minimalism
One of the most familiar interior design styles of recent decades is minimalism—plain walls, surfaces uninterrupted by ornament or moldings, zero clutter. Fashionable as...
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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...
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Knowledge in architecture: draughtsmanship or craftsmanship?
What are draughtsmanship and craftsmanship in architecture and what is their relation? This question represents, of course, what could be called two distinct fields...
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Attempts to catalog all possible variants of planning solutions for individual residential buildings of mass construction have been made repeatedly. In particular, in England in the 1960s, annual catalogues of recommended planning solutions for small residential buildings were published with accompanying schemes that make it possible to understand the features of numerous layouts.
All treatises talk about the need for self-knowledge, reading the "scroll" of one's being and the world. In other words, the process of cognition is presented as a constant search for similarity relations and connections between man and the...
Conquered by the Arabs in 711-713. In the 11th century. the Christian states of northern Spain returned part of the conquered territories, including Toledo, in 1085. 1212 - the defeat of the Moors in the battle of Las Navas...
De Stijl
Dutch architects were in the vanguard of modernism from 1910 to the end of the 1920s. Their De Stijl movement, which produced stunning white...
Architecture of buildings
A building is a ground structure that has an internal space designed
and adapted for a particular type of activity.
Requirements for buildings:
Functional expediency –...
Architecture of villas on Koh Phangan island*
The island of Phangan, nestled in the Gulf of Thailand, is renowned not only for its pristine white beaches and lush forests but also...
Beyond the Slides: Comprehensive Services Offered by Pitch Deck Consultants
Alright, let's get down to brass tacks. When you hear 'pitch deck consultants', you might think it's all about jazzing up a few PowerPoint...
Rhetoric of the image of architecture
The application of a research on rhetorics means the focus of the researcher is on the persuasive nature of the image, in this case...
Programmed spontaneity in spatial design
The conception that something is “formal”, in general terms, refers to the idea of protocol, of behavioural rule or social etiquette. The term “informal”,...
Rocamadour*
The "vertical village" is often called the small medieval town of Rocamadour. It is located in a picturesque place in the south-west of France,...
Aalto and Japan: Towards an Architecture of Meaningful Envi- ronmental Integration
The route of ideas and idioms is not a one-way journey, but (ōfuku, Japanese) – round trip. In contemporary Japanese architecture, we can find...