Library, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

Contemporary classicism

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Frustrated by the limitations of most contemporary architecture, a few architects have returned to classicism. Although they have suffered criticism and charges of pastiche...
Glenn Murcutt’s Ball-Eastaway House, Glenorie, NSW

Minimalism

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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...
Vitruvius and the orders

The orders

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...

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Architectural draughtsmanship

Knowledge in architecture: draughtsmanship or craftsmanship?

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What are draughtsmanship and craftsmanship in architecture and what is their relation? This question represents, of course, what could be called two distinct fields...
Vitruvian proportions

Renaissance

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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...
Schröder House, Utrecht

De Stijl

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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

Architecture of buildings

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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 –...

Regionalism

Galician Center for Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostela

Neorationalism

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...

Architecture of villas on Koh Phangan island*

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Architecture of Thailand
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

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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

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Old Town
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

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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*

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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

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Tokyo Skytree tower
The route of ideas and idioms is not a one-way journey, but (ōfuku, Japanese) – round trip. In contemporary Japanese architecture, we can find...