Contemporary Architecture

The Tower of London

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The Tower of London has a very interesting story behind it. It was begun by a man who was not even English, William of...

Postmodernism

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Postmodernism is the term used to describe the brash, diverse, witty and colorful architecture that emerged in the late 1960s as a reaction to...

Regionalism

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A number of architects have felt the need to counter the “international” aspect of modern architecture. They prefer their buildings to express or respect...

Guarino Guarini: the First ‘Baroque’ architect

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In her contribution to the conference Guarino Guarini e l’internazionalità del barocco of 1968, silvia bordini presented a historical overview of the criticism of...

Architecture and oblivion. The Great Temple of Tenochtitlan

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The majority of the Mayan cities, including those of the Classical period (roughly 250–900 CE) were rather dispersed settlements, adapted to a lowland tropical...

Composition

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An appreciation of composition is particularly important when drawing buildings and cities. The abstract nature of architecture means that sketches have to be well...

Line and shade

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Sketching the outline of objects can lead to rather featureless and abstract drawing. Although one may recognise the shape of a house, its value...

Perspective

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An understanding of perspective is essential in order to gain a full appreciation of the aesthetic quality of towns, and is necessary in order...

Categorizing the Architectural Utopia in the Genre of Science Fiction

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First of all I would like to start with a definition what science fiction architecture is, and more importantly what it is not. I...

Verbal Text in Architecture – A Text within a Text

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From the semiotic viewpoint, architecture is not only transmedial (in which case its specimens in their constitution can be likened to verbal texts that...

The Giza Pyramids

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Most likely responding initially to practical needs—such as restoring landmarks destroyed by the Nile’s annual flooding, estimating the volume of a stone block, or...

Mesopotamia: The Oval Temple

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Without humans settling down more or less permanently at specific locations, the erection of large and complex edifices would have been an unimaginable feat;...

The Terra Amata Huts

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Unlike clothes, buildings cannot be squeezed into the back of our closet or taken to the local charity shop when no longer in fashion;...

Structuralism

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In the 1950s a group of architects broke away from the mainstream modernist organization CIAM and began to take architecture in new directions. These...

Townscape

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The townscape movement emerged after the Second World War as a way of looking at how towns grew organically and how planners should respect...

Metabolist architecture

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The Japanese group known as the Metabolists proposed a new kind of architecture based on values of adaptability and change. Their visionary designs included...

Archigram

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The British group Archigram formed in the 1960s as a forum for architectural discussions and ideas. Its projects existed mainly on paper, but its...

Why draw?

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There is an undisguised air of evangelism running through this book, for it seeks to encourage students of architecture, craft and design to forsake...
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