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Guarino Guarini

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...
The Great Temple of Tenochtitlan

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

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

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...
A grasp of perspective

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...
The Giza Pyramids

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...
Temple, Göbekli Tepe, Anatolia, Turkey

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;...
Grotte du Lazaret, France

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;...
Montessori School, Delft

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...
The Concise Townscape, Gordon Cullen

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...
Nagakin Capsule Tower

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

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...
Drawn with a black felt pen

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...
DRAWING TODAY

The benefits of drawing

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The act of drawing is an important starting point for the intellectual process we call ‘design’. To be able to draw a chair or...
Galician Center for Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostela

Neorationalism

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The Italian movement known there as la Tendenza explored a way of building that was at once new and responsive to the shapes, forms...
Yale University Art and Architecture Building

Brutalism

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The style known as brutalism was a bold, distinctive version of modernism that became popular in the 1960s. Typified by extensive use of concrete...
Historic buildings

Heritage

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The way we have looked at historical buildings has changed greatly over the past 150 years. From being all but ignored by the authorities,...
Park Hill Estate, Sheffield

Segregated planning

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Mass car ownership and the increased traffic it brought posed a major challenge to architects and planners. For decades, the obvious solution seemed to...
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...