Tag: Architect
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...
Zaha Hadid Strategy Of Design
When noticing the complex presentation of Hadid’s works from the early 1980s to mid-1990s, anyone might face a difficulty to understand her way of...
An architecture for ordinary people? Modernism
Richard Rogers mentioned in a lecture in 1979 that the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris—the Beaubourg, which had just been completed—is erroneously considered to...
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...
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...
Hindu architecture and Architecture in Islam
If we ignore the similarity of the structure of the Hindu temple with the structure of the body of the Purusha and look at...
Architecture in Ancient Egypt
Not so far from Mesopotamia, in North Africa, at about the same time, another great civilization appeared - the ancient Egyptian. It is also...
Soft modernism
Before the Second World War, there was a clear distinction between future-oriented architecture and one that expressed "here" and "now". But after 1945, this...
Internationalism in Architecture
Nowadays internationalism dominates to a much greater extent than ever, this was the result of the globalization of society and the unification of Europe....
Symbolic architectural understanding of space
The overlapping of several binary oppositions in the model of the world of ancient man could lead to four-membered complexes, for example, to the...
