Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei , graduate form Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1942, start his own practice in 1955 as I.M. Pei & Associates (but later changing its name to Pei & Partners in 1966 and finally to Pei […]
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.
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
B.Arch from MNIT (Malaviya National Institute of Technology ) , Jaipur. 1994-1999 Batch
M.Plan (Urban Planning)
