Essays on Modern Architecture

From the above architecture, we find there are two partitions in that whole system. The whole system is divided into certain types of layer. Each and every channel has the number of clients and those number of the client is fixed in position. The layer which we mentioned here is derived from that part of the chapter. The whole system is be based on the mobile application and the internet. The system has two different entities. The user and the admin. The user is considered the main domain of ...

As much as Beijing went ahead in its development, there remained hesistations in the representation of the capital city. In March 1982, Beijing municipal government formally proposed its Master Plan for Beijing Urban Construction (Beijing Urban Planning Commission). This master plan recognised the political and cultural center position of the Beijing, on top of economic and industrial priorities that characterised the reforms of the period. This duality of purpose, which influences the ...

In the nineteenth century, the preliminary eurocentric terms; Saracenic, Mohammedan, Moorish and Oriental architecture became one, Islamic architecture. The influences it had on other styles of architecture grew even more and made an evident difference in the Historical, Cultural and Religious buildings and artefacts. This influential growth was also extended to non-Muslim regions like Venice (Italy), Granada (Spain) and much more. In this extended abstract, I will be thoroughly discussing ...

John Muir Woods, or more formally known as Muir Woods National Monument, is just north of San Francisco. With the park only 30 minutes outside of San Francisco, this National Monument is the closest way for someone in in the city to experience hiking through a redwood forest. Naturally, this makes for a relatively crowded park, but venturing off the main trail allows for more seclusion. Muir Woods is named after John Muir, who championed the preservation of land and was nicknamed "The ...

It would be too simpleminded to say that “all” features of the Roman house served a purpose in propagating the credulence of the paterfamilias. Not every stone was placed for this end, but every marble chiseled could’ve intended to raise the head of the house’s prestige outside of it. Any detail entailed at the behest of the Head was meant to showcase their individual fame and fortune (which would gauge their quality as a citizen to the republic/empire) all for the glory of Rome. However, the ...

Few would argue that independence and modernism are clear-cut states of being, or that they are necessarily mutually reinforcing. The process of de-colonization often takes years, if not decades, and vestiges of dependency—in corporate exploitation, military installations, and trade can linger long after a declaration of independence. Modernism, meanwhile, is usually anti-local and was, as Herz writes, “one of the very motifs that the empires used to colonize Africa during the nineteenth ...

The main objective for this essay is to establish a clear understanding of Modernism. A way I’m going to achieve this is to define what Modernism is. This definition will soon be elaborated more by describing its characteristics and main governing principles which are of the Modern Architecture. These characteristics will include things such as spatial, formal, tectonic and broad contextual elements. This definition will therefore create a better understanding of what influences Modern ...

Humans seek balance throughout their lives, both physically and mentally in order to find comfort. This is our reality. You may never have the whole of one without, at the very least, the part of another, otherwise, there is imbalance. You may never have light without dark, nor silence without noise, never a life without death, and as such, material without immaterial. They are symbiotic, and therefore, will always work together in harmony or dichotomy to create a depth of sensation in ...

Critical regionalism is a method in architecture in which the global style of Modern Architecture is replaced with a design that focuses on the place. It is a reaction to the context and these buildings are site specific. The end product is a response to its surroundings and cultural context, this gives the building a sense of meaning and place. The term was first mentioned by Tzonis and Lefaivre, who proposed this movement and it was popularized by Kenneth Frampton. It was Frampton’s belief ...

At 80 South and 8th Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota sits the city’s tallest skyscraper, the IDS Center. Designed by Philip Johnson and completed in 1972, this structure stretches to 910 feet to serve as an office headquarters. Within this project houses five parts: the 57-story IDS Tower itself, an 8-story annex building, a 19-story Marquette Hotel, and a 2-story retail building. These four attractions are then brought together by the central 7-story Crystal Courtyard. The courtyard serves as ...

The schematic of the DC nanogrid architecture scheme is shown Fig 1. All the subsystems such as DC nanogrid power converter, AC-DC converter, MPPT based solar PV converter battery bank, nanogrid controller, protection and distribution unit are incorporated in a rack (DC nanogrid power rack) in a compact fashion, the Nanogrid controller acts as the master controller of the system, the 48 V DC power lines from DC nanogrid rack is distributed to various rooms in the home (here the rooms are ...

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us", said Winston Churchill (Schoenberg, 2017), who was once a British prime minister. Nowadays, architecture is strongly defined as an object of design, being judged on how it looks like. However, architecture is much more than that, it shapes humans' lifestyle and most importantly, humans' health. According to World Health Organization (WHO), there are 30% of new as well as remodeled buildings worldwide that received numerous of complaints due ...

According to anthropologist Ashley Montagu, “We in the Western world are beginning to discover our neglected senses”. In architecture, this expresses itself in the emphasis and utilization of immateriality along with materiality. Immaterial architecture involves the “subjective and unpredictable”. The immaterial qualities of a building are less concrete than the material, but rather they are parts of the design that create sensory effects without physically being constructed. They typically ...

“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity” (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1953). According to Wright, “organic” means an understanding of nature’s standards manifested in structures that were in accordance with their general surroundings. Wright held that a building should be a result of its place and time, personally connected with a specific moment and site – never an aftereffect of a forced style. This theory often integrates ...

Throughout history, the forms of buildings have always been the product of architecture and structure. In the context of 20th and early 21st centuries, modernity and the advanced technologies in the field of building construction has contributed to the appearance of a new generation of buildings, where the structure played an important role in the formation of architecture. Explore the strong association between structure and architecture by expressing the following relationships: The word ...