Tag: Organic 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...
Organic architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright
For thousands of years writers on architecture have compared the creations of builders and architecture to the natural world. The great American architect Frank...
Expressionism
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
You may be familiar with the term 'organic' from the produce aisle of your grocery store. When it comes to architecture, however, 'organic' means...
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...
Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright
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-Australian village of the future
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
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
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, beauty and harmony remains the...
The symmetry of a work of architecture, being at the same time a property of both the process of perception and the structure itself,...
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...
