Interdependence in Architecture

Interdependence of form , function , space and structure (materialization) Structural Requirements,Structure Types, Post and Beam Structures, Arches and Vaulted Halls,Domes, Portal Frames,Trusses,Space Frames,Folded Roofs,Shells, Tensile Structures, Design Strategies,Selection Of The Generic Type Of Structure, Selection Of Structural Material.

proportion

Principles of Architecture

Proportion and scale are closely interrelated. Scale alludes to the size of something compared to a reference standard or to the size of something else. Proportion refers to the proper or harmonious relation of one part to another or to the whole. A proportioning system establishes a consistent set of visual relationships between the parts of a building, as well […]

Circulation Elements

The Building Approach The distance view  The Building Entrance From outside to inside  Configuration of Path The sequence of space  Path & Space Relationship Edges , nodes and termination of path  Form Of The Circulation Space Corridor , Balconies , Galleries , Stairs , Rooms The Building Approach  Frontal A frontal approach leads directly to building entrance along a straight […]

Deconstructivism

The literary theory of Deconstruction holds that there is no fixed accessible truth, only chaos and multiple interpretations. The architecture spin-off simulates an appearance of chaos with dizzy, diverse perspectives. Vertigo and confusion are the desired responses. Decon reflects a work out of whack. Its fragmented discontinuous forms represented the uncertainty of contemporary life after the […]

Charles Moore : Piazza d’Italia,(1975-1978) ,New Orleans

Post-modernism Architecture

Post Modernism architecture Modernist architecture –when the cube was king-didn‘t age well. As time passed, grime streaked flat, concrete walls, like wrinkles carved into a smooth face. Glass-paned skyscrapers lost their shine. Stripped of ornament, abstract forms that once seemed ultramodern appeared just plain blank by the 1970s. In scaling up from the margins to […]

Expressionist architecture : TWA Terminal at JFK International Airport

Expressionism

Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement that developed in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts.  Today the meaning has to refer to architecture of any date or location that exhibits some of the qualities of the original movement such as; distortion, fragmentation or […]

Brutalism

Brutalist architecture is a style of architecture which flourished from the 1950s to the mid 1970s, spawned from the modernist architectural movement.  Boston City Hall, part of Government Center, Boston, Massachusetts (Gerhardt Kallmann and N. Michael McKinnell, 1969). The structure illustrates typical (but not necessary) Brutalist characteristics such as top-heavy massing, the use of slender […]

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier

1887-1965, Swiss architect , Urban planner , Painter, Writer, Designer, Theorist, Active mostly in France.  “For the first time perhaps, the pressing problems of architecture, were solved in a modern spirit. Economy, sociology, aesthetics: a new solution using new methods.”  “Through the channel of my painting I arrived at my architecture.”  Le Corbusier Le Corbusier’s […]

MIES van der ROHE

MIES van der ROHE

“Let us guide our students from materials, through function to creative work. We must understand the motives and forces of our time and analyze their structure from three points of view: the material, the functional, and the spiritual.”  “Form is not the aim of our work, only the result.”  “God is in the details. Architecture […]

Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969) “To build is to create events.” “Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all return to the crafts! For art is not a ‘profession.’ There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is the exalted craftsman.” “ The final goal of […]