Architecture Essays

Studies agree that comparatively, buildings and flats in Arabic climates have either tinted or frosted glasses as compared to Western buildings which had their windows made of clear glasses (Friess & Rakhshan, 2017). However, reasons for these approaches have been differing from one author to another.

Buildability or constructability is one of the most common techniques of managing building projects in the modern world and it ensures that every process is followed from begging to the completion of certain projects and this means that the process starts from pre-construction to the time the project is completed. 

The author of the paper will begin with the statement that buildability in building and construction industry is a preconstruction task that views the design from the point of those who will carry out the actual manufacturing, installation of the components, and carrying out the construction activities (Tomczak, 2016).

According to Wilson (2006), Ian Engelen Moore has significantly contributed to the continuance and development of abstraction.  This has been achieved through the AIR. Air is a thirty-seven residential tower that was developed and designed by Ian Moore. According to Wilson, the air is a stylish addition to the gold coast city skyline.   

Urban design involves the understanding of a wide range of disciplines ranging from social science and physical geography. It is about making links or connections between people and places with distinct beauty and identity using strands of environmental stewardship, place-making, and economic viability

The plan has demonstrated how, despite urbanization, land use can be effective for all – recreational, agricultural, and commercial purposes. Copenhagen's urban planning has witnessed a number of milestones in urban planning practice and it can be said that each milestone has been able to fulfill the missions and visions as laid out by the plan many decades ago.

The diverse set of concepts and methods in some of the journals helps in understanding the ways in which architecture regulates the social, economic, and political phenomena. To develop relevant discussion, various approaches such as pull and push factors, demographic and economic, negotiations and differences are implicated in architecture.

“Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane”, these were words by Theodor W. Adorno as he sought a comparison between art in fashion and architecture (Mahall & Serbest, 2009, p. 133). The overlap that exists between fashion and architecture has been a theme that has not been looked at from various perspectives.

Architectural modernism sought to create new building and design forms that were based on a universally accepted architectural vocabulary, whereby buildings and house developments would adhere to some prescribed rules. In that case, buildings developed in Manchester or in Massachusetts, Bangkok, or Berlin would be similar.

Planning is the center of every successful undertaking. City planning is known to be pegged on the buildings and other infrastructures which together define the core mandate of architecture. The planning of any city depends majorly on the population density and the availability of lands and funds resources.

As stated by Lahoud (2010), post-urban traumatism has created something new to the people and to the environment. Lahoud further stated that this subject does not handle and neither does it uncover the archaeological history of events that shape and organize the present ways of living; rather, the subject creates something new, creating a new way of handling events as they occur.

Weitz (1962) promotes the idea that critics do many things when they talk about an object: including comparing, observing, interpreting, analyzing, evaluating, and explaining. Based on these definitions, it can be argued that criticisms are for the most part about the critic rather than the object being criticized. 

Postmodernism is a general term that could describe a specific era, from the end of World War II though frequently starting as late as the 1970s; or it could refer to a body of ideas of philosophy and critical studies dating back to the late 1960s with the works of poststructuralists like Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Jean-Francois Lyotard.

The tectonic designs derive their name from the cryptic models from Sanskrit to Greek, however, it only came to be confirmed and accepted in  Germany during the periods of the Griinderzeit,  notably in the nineteenth century, as confirmable from the authors like Gottfried Semper, Karl Boettischer and many others.

The introduction of public transit such as a light rail transit seeks to eliminate the high dependency on automobiles among urban dwellers in this area. According to Newman and Kenworthy (2006) changes in transportation in an urban area influences the urban design of a place due to the contributing factors of culture, climate, politics, income, prices, and education.

The government has been at the forefront in creating policies and regulations that will govern the usage of LRT. According to strong political leadership is a critical element that facilitates and provides success in the development and management of LRT. It requires huge capital and the government must spearhead approval of the taxpayer’s money before channeling it to the work.

They are working around stringent safety guidelines by incorporating sensory exploration, innovative didactic experiences, and contextual reference into their schemes. Playspaces that appear at first to be afterthoughts can also provide stimulating environments for kids and challenge control problems for their caregivers.

The design process evolves on account of synergy between these elements and depending on how the interaction takes place this relationship can be broadly divided into two categories; one is structure hidden from the view and another structure exposed. If the structure falls in the exposed category, it can further be divided into three sub-categories.

The matter is an integration that is consistent with lots of singles. The integration includes a leading role and a minor role. Matter and architecture are interdependent. To date many forms of architecture have been explored; one further beyond the familiar boundaries that architecture is supposed to rest on. 

It would be wrong to think of a one-way journey and carrying the discipline’s cultural baggage might have been predominantly in one direction, however secure was maintained in both locations. In short, the “return” to popular culture as well as the marketplace was not made at the expense of high culture as well as its Olympian. 

Since the site is a tricky one, the government does not have any pre-determined set of outcomes in mind. But primarily it is envisaged that the site, when developed, revitalizes the Yarra River's northern side and is able to gel with both the river and the sporting, cultural and entertainment precincts. 

The result of this study shows the functionalist architecture tradition dominated the 20th century due to the modern movement’s influence active promotion of International Style. Differences between functionalist and minimalist approaches were found in principle and work as well as the strong connection between minimalist ideas and functionalist approaches.

The area used to be the site for a golf course earlier. It was bought by Australand following which it sought permission from the government to turn it into a residential area. The land was released to buyers piece by piece by Australand. The site undervaluation here was bought by the owner who paid Matricon to construct a house on it. 

There are several factors determining whether a painting or building is transparent, and this is what the paper will focus on. The paper will mainly deal with one building and one painting by Corbusier. A thorough analysis of these will help in identifying all the things that indicate transparency in them.

The unique climate in Australia and culture have however influenced the development of a new Australian architecture. The change in the architecture in Australia was also a result of the influence of the urban designs from America. The development in the materials for architecture and in industries in the United States also influenced Australia to borrow from their architectural designs.

Epicor's ERP solutions are discrete, precise, and tailor-made for the manufacturing industry. So they are ideally suited for the same. These solutions are made such that they help maintain product quality, time accuracy and even handle economic fluctuations. Epicor solutions handle the problems faced by the manufacturing industry efficiently. 

Wright’s contribution in the field of architecture by the use of his principles remains the bedrock of the current architecture. Fundamentally, his desire to encourage people to adopt organic architecture is prevalent and remains crucial even in modern architecture. Seemingly, they will continue being relevant even to the future generation. 

According to the findings of the paper, it can be said that the pure, rich geometry of Le Corbusier's International Style would give route in the years after World War II to another, more natural vocabulary, which did not anticipate, proceeding with the splendid vocation of Le Corbusier (Weber, 2006, 100).

The baroque movement might have originated from Rome but the extent it spread in Britain has been a subject of controversy. The baroque style on the other hand is believed to have developed in England, and its effects spread in a classicist form, which has since helped architectural changes in countries such as Germany and England.

The Crossness Pumping Station has developed since then to the London Sewerage system which now serves the greater parts of London and operated by Thames Water. Since then, this system has been undergoing a lot of rehabilitation developments to become a tourist attraction, apart from being just a sewerage system.

The site where this building was to be located was where there was a vacant site of the Plateau Beau Bourg which was to be used in the construction of a multidisciplinary cultural center. This particular decision gave room for several projects that would now be united in the new center where the main focus was to establish the new reading library within the city center.

The commonly used hides to make leather for the seats come from antelopes, lambskin, cowhide, and buckskin. Upon the removal of the skin from the animal at the meat processing companies, there is refrigeration, salting, and packing in barrels containing brine. Leather preparation begins with trimming and cleaning. 

During the first 25 years of the last century, the scope of interior design or decoration was majorly the issue of craftsmen, homemakers, and upholsterers who worked for architects to give advice on some artistic aspects.  It was mostly Victorian styles and its feature were Victorian bric-a-brac, overstuffed furniture, dark colors, and rooms varnished with heavy drapery.

Design can be defined as a plan and fashion in the form of a structure of an object, decorative scheme, or work of art. Fashion design is the use of aesthetics or accessories and natural beauty in clothing. This is a project, a sketch, an edifice, or a summary of the structure and style. The design combines many features of building, pictures, motif, or methods of creative work.

The design of the Panopticon was conducted as a surveillance machine, where the inmates could not be able to tell whether they are being watched or not. The popularity of the panopticon has since highly increased in the architectural scene based on the fact that it incorporates architecture with spatial power.

One of the available assumptions by expert players that leads to the formation of Hetfield's claim is that the act of design is commenced by and predicated on problems but the author further states that regardless of this, definite analysis of the nature of problems in regard to design is hardly ever handled in the hypothetical literature.

Besides, with culture, it is likely to determine various cultural factors ranging from the standard of living, arty sensibilities, and societal organization. Different cultures are capable of motivating various types of architecture. The most widespread influences in the day to day life are religion and family and they all simplify cultural aspects of society and the buildings.

The ideal shape of a concert hall, for instance, should be generated by setting out the uninterrupted sight of lines for every spectator, the shape and the location of the foyers should be determined by the flow of the people to and from their seats; and the outside appearance should be shaped by the symbolic role of a concert hall as a focus of civic pride.

Housing was vigorous though temporary to give room for natural hunting as well as gathering. Most of the advancement in Australian architecture took place after the European settlement into the continent. The remarkable historical periods in Australian architecture are as follows; a colonial period that took place between 1788 and 1840.

Ronald Barthes (1967) uses the Eiffel Tower to show the way architecture does symbolize identity, and that popularity of something can end at any particular time. Fashion generally is influenced by change as well as what the society dictates on what is good at a particular time and architecture seems inclined in following the change and trend in fashion.

Surrealists are supposed to have been greatly influenced by him in his early years of professional development, while in the years after 1919 traditional painting techniques captured more of his attention. While Giorgio De Chirico frequented his earlier work for metaphysical themes, two of the styles that he concentrated on were neo-Baroque and neoclassical.

Diana Balmori was born on 6th April 1932. She is the founder of the landscape design firm known as Balmori associates. Born of an English mother and a Spanish father, she spent most of her childhood life in Spain and England before her family relocated and settled in Argentina. During her childhood, Diana was an extremely imaginative and creative child who was attracted to arts at an early age.

In the attempt to explain the phenomena of evolutionary psychology with respect to humans and their interaction in their physical environment, researchers have to borrow references, from the evolutionary theory. The evolution theory by natural selection, according to Darwin (1985), envisions a much deeper design of both the human mind and brain.

Both Rossi and Venturi in their discussions have manifested how the city grows and acquires urban transformation. Therefore, one can conclude that the growth of the city and the evolution of urban artifacts are continuous natural processes, but the real difference within them disappears. This is because the reality of the structure of urban artifacts suggests cities to be distinct in time and space.

Many architects designers and socialists are taking much of their time currently to understand the way people live in densely populated areas. The paper tells that to understand urbanism well as a mode of life, Louis Wirth argued that urbanism should not be looked at as just a corporal object of the city. 

Considering the fact that history consists of inexhaustible information, this paper will limit its discussion to the Renaissance and Rococo periods and how the relationship between the ornament and structure, as portrayed in both periods, is problematic. The interiors and buildings of the Renaissance and Rococo periods will be used to explain the argument.

The paper tells that BREEAM is owned by the BRE Global group who has provided a rating for buildings so as to attain an environment that is sustainable. The rating is done so as to enhance the social and environmental issues of a building project. This is aimed at reducing the environmental impact of the building. 

The ministry is not in the position to take over abandoned projects as it will cost a substantial amount of taxpayers’ money. Also, they must understand that there are many unsolved problems associated with abandoned projects such as claims from buyers, bank borrowings, and other liabilities, which are best left to the professionals to resolve.

It is, however, often difficult to find residential apartments of ideal quality, in regard to sustainability, that is also affordable. Clients, regardless of their socioeconomic status, still need to enjoy premium quality dwellings. It is in light of this factor that this report intends to research such affordable housing across the globe.

Unity for the same purpose result in betterment rather than doing on an individual level. Coordinating with each other with a strategy set increases knowledge and a person comes to know more of each other. Many authors around the world have given the same view regarding this planning and have emphasized the importance of collaboration planning in the present era.