Tag: Architecture
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...
Dissonance between the engineering potential and the academic tradition
The development of innovative technologies opened up undreamt of possibilities for the creation of space and building in architecture. However, despite the enormous transformations...
Architecture is an extraordinarily multifaceted phenomenon
To understand the true essence of architecture, it is necessary to consider it from different sides, to determine what role it plays in society,...
Architectural fantasies
The term discreteness characterizes the space-time limitation of the elements and states of the object. Continuity is understood as the relationship of elements and...
The main styles in architecture
Architecture has always reflected periods of human existence, fashion and aesthetic ways. At the present stage of the development of civilization, a completely new...
Symmetry as a visual, visible harmony
The symmetrical compositions of French gardens of the XVII century, the "architecture" of greenery (geometric shapes of trees, shrubs and curtains) were a continuation...
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...
