Tag: Modern
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...
Streets, lanes and footpaths
Our movement through towns is normally along streets and roads, and hence our perception of the quality of place is shaped by what we...
Towns, townscapes and squares
An appreciation of landscape – the aesthetic quality of the countryside – has been part of our culture for at least two hundred years,...
The Art of Fine Line Tattooing: A History and Evolution*
For centuries, tattooing has been a way to express oneself and artfully decorate one's body. Nowadays, an incredible range of techniques provide endless possibilities...
Architects and Creative Work
"You could not help getting this sense of hope that architecture was ultimately poetry and art, transcending accommodation, shelter, and program." This statement...
Brutalism
The style known as brutalism was a bold, distinctive version of modernism that became popular in the 1960s. Typified by extensive use of concrete...
Modernism in Architecture between the two Wars
Since modernism is considered here in a strictly defined national framework, little attention is paid to the cultural network of the dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy,...
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...
Architecture of Central Europe
There are hardly any general works devoted to architecture on a pan-European scale. Even Pevsner's book, contrary to its name, cannot be recognized as...
