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...
Spatial axis and rhythm, metric, variations
The world is created - traditional philosophy teaches - and everything that is created by human hands is created like the world.
This idea, which...
Architectural theory of the first half of the XX century
In the book "The Crisis of European Humanity and Transcendental Phenomenology" written in the mid-30s of our century, the greatest philosopher, idealist of our...
Renaissance Architect
The modern profession of architect originated in the Renaissance. In the changed historical conditions, an unusual type of customer first appeared. The new rulers...
Architectonics of the concept of architectural symmetry
Escher depicted lizards, different in color, but not distinguishable in shape, placed on a plane according to symmetry transformations.
Thus, the symmetrical ones include such...
The Latest “Mind Architecture”
Scientific ideology and "intellectual control", according to the Italian critic of modern architecture Bruno Dzevi, can be called as analogies between the rationalism of...
Features of the style of architecture of Russian architecture
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...
