Tag: Organic architecture

Barbican Center Housing, London, Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, 1965

An architecture for ordinary people? Modernism

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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...
Jacobs House, Middleton

Organic architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright

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For thousands of years writers on architecture have compared the creations of builders and architecture to the natural world. The great American architect Frank...
The Grosse Schauspielhaus, Berlin

Expressionism

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The expressionist movement had its heyday in Germany and the Netherlands in the 1920s. It brought dramatic new forms—curving walls and faceted domes, for...
Organic Architecture

Organic Architecture

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You may be familiar with the term 'organic' from the produce aisle of your grocery store. When it comes to architecture, however, 'organic' means...
L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris

Dissonance between the engineering potential and the academic tradition

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The development of innovative technologies opened up undreamt of possibilities for the creation of space and building in architecture. However, despite the enormous transformations...
Louis Sullivan

Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright

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The outstanding architect and theorist Louis Henry Sullivan (1856–1924) and, following him, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) blazed the modernist trail on the American continent....
Spiral Village

Spiral Village-Australian village of the future

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Climate change occurring on the globe motivates the search for innovative solutions in architecture. An interesting concept was presented by Italian work Valentino Gareri...
Architecture is an extraordinarily multifaceted phenomenon

Architecture is an extraordinarily multifaceted phenomenon

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To understand the true essence of architecture, it is necessary to consider it from different sides, to determine what role it plays in society,...
Architecture in Ancient Rome

Architecture in Ancient Rome

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The exact year is known, the 30th BC, when the era of Hellenism ended. If you follow the line of the well-known plot, then...
Symmetry as an ideal of integrity

Symmetry as an ideal of integrity, beauty and harmony remains the...

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The symmetry of a work of architecture, being at the same time a property of both the process of perception and the structure itself,...