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Purism. A movement in French painting advocating an art of clarity and objectivity in tune with the machine age. Purism founders were Amedée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier, who met in Paris in 1918, and it flourished from then until 1925.  Both protagonists seemed to realize that […]

Primary Elements Consist of : Point It may describe a line that connects them.  It may suggest an axis and direction.  It may be viewed as a segment of a longer path.  A point indicates a position in space. A […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]