epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:John Ruskin [Ruskin, John]

§ LXXIII. The fifth element above named was Rigidity ; and this character I must endeavor carefully to define, for neither the word I have used, nor any other that ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Michael Bierut

In two footnotes, Bell has neatly nailed the choice that many designers feel they face. They can choose to become the passive, “objective” voice of their clients, or they can ...

epub |eng | | Author:Molly Wright Steenson

5 Cedric Price: Responsive Architecture and Intelligent Buildings “Technology is the answer, but what was the question?” asked British architect Cedric Price (1934–2003) in a lecture he gave by that ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-12 | Author:Awan, Nishat & Schneider, Tatjana & Till, Jeremy [Awan, Nishat]

Collections of alternative approaches Berkeley, USA. 1981– There are a number of contemporary projects that collect and collate alternative approaches to the practice of architecture. These are all projects whose ...

epub |eng | 2018-02-07 | Author:Rodrigo Pérez de Arce

FIGURE 96 Le Corbusier’s Alveoles condominium, with alternating strips for ‘play’, ‘garden’ and ‘allotments’. Allotments indicated in grey Drawing by the author after Le Corbusier. In his contemporary Lotissements a ...

epub |eng | 2018-08-03 | Author:Martin Filler

11 PAUL RUDOLPH A FALL FROM critical grace is not uncommon in the arts, but somehow it seems more surprising in architecture than in literature, music, or painting. Buildings tend ...

epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Mark Dorrian;Christos Kakalis;

Materiality of silence When the German philosopher Gernot Böhme recalls ‘entering silence as if walking into a wall of fog’ at the threshold of Cologne cathedral,10 he describes an experience ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Vitruvius Pollio [Vitruvius Pollio]

ART. VI. Of the Dorick Order. HE Dorick Pillar has had in divers times, and in different Buildings, different Proportions; for at first it had only for its height 6 ...

epub |eng | | Author:Luciana Parisi [Parisi, Luciana]

Figure 3.2 doubleNegatives Architecture (dNA) (Sota Ichikawa, Max Rheiner, Ákos Maróy, Kaoru Kobata), Corpora in Si(gh)te, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, 2007. Courtesy of Sota Ichikawa. A Zigbee Sensor ...

epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:John Ruskin [Ruskin, John]

ABSTRACT LINES. h is a line about four feet long, a branch of spruce fir. I have taken this tree because it is commonly supposed to be stiff and ungraceful; ...

mobi, azw |eng | 2012-07-30 | Author:E. Michael Jones

Vitruvius's analysis of the proportions of the human body led to Leonardo Da Vinci's famous drawing, showing how the circle and square are derived from those proportions: If a person ...

epub |eng | 2016-11-07 | Author:Coombes, Eric; Dalrymple, Theodore; & Theodore Dalrymple

2 Codex Urbinas 35V. 3 Quoted in Caroline Tisdall, Joseph Beuys (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Thames and Hudson, 1979), p. 23. 4 Emma Allen, ‘The Rapper Is Present’, The ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-11 | Author:Linda Zane [Zane, Linda]

Providing open space between classroom furniture and learning centers reduces traffic congestion within a room. Flow through Rooms (131) The movement or circulation space between and within rooms is equally ...

epub |eng | 1995-10-01 | Author:Brand, Stewart [Brand, Stewart]

1990 - The new oak beams of New College, Oxford, were installed in 1865 by Gothic Revivalist Gilbert Scott, using timbers from college estates at Great Horwood and Akely in ...

epub |eng | | Author:Michael Sorkin

29 Back to the Burbs I grew up in the suburbs and so address this gathering with a combination of expertise and jaundice. In fact my experience was in many ...