Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in 1916-22 to represent Japan's emergence into modernity while respecting Japanese architectural traditions. The hotel survived the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake due to its floating concrete foundation. It became a social center but rising costs led to additions that Wright disliked, and the original structure was demolished in 1968. Parts were reconstructed at an open-air museum.
Theory Of Design - Louis Sullivan. Buildings covered in this presentation are - Auditorium Building (Chicago) , Wainwright Building, Carson Pierie Scott and company building, transportation building, louis sullivan bungalow ,
Theory Of Design - Louis Sullivan. Buildings covered in this presentation are - Auditorium Building (Chicago) , Wainwright Building, Carson Pierie Scott and company building, transportation building, louis sullivan bungalow ,
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE - WORK AND PHILOSOPHY Soumya Sharma
MAJOR WORKS OF AR. VAN DER ROHE, ARCHITECTURAL STYLES - MINIMALISM,MODERNISM,INTERNATIONAL STYLEMODERNISM,CHARACTER OF WORKS,MATERIALS USED IN HIS DESIGN / CONSTRUCTION, STUDY OF MAJOR WORKS - BARCELONA PAVILION , TUGENDHAT VILLA , FARNSWORTH HOUSE.
Post-Modern Architecture - An international architectural movement that emerged in the 1960s, became prominent in the late 1970s and 80s, and remained a dominant force in the 1990s.
this presentation is all about frank o gehry and work of frank o gehry and some of his mater piece that makes him the most important architect of our age. and also includes all of his buidings in his career...
While Information Architecture took its name from architecture, it took very little else. This is not surprising, as the early days of the web were about making sites that supported the interaction between people and data. The obvious model back then was a library; a library is a space for humans to receive knowledge. But with the rise of social networks, and the integration of community into almost all online experiences, more architecture practices are directly transferable to design. Online spaces are no longer just about findability, but about falling in love, getting your work done, goofing around, reconnecting with old friends, staving off loneliness... humans doing human things.
As an early Information Architect who had been working in the search field, I found very little but entertainment from phenomenology's Gaston Bachelard or innovator Frank Gehry. But once I began working on social spaces, it all changed. We all know Christopher Alexander from his pattern-language approach to codifying design solutions, but if you go beyond the mere structure you find that in those patterns lies the answers to tricky privacy issues and the cold-start problem. Architects of buildings can help us form a new approach to the architecture of human spaces online. Poetics will go down easy with plenty of real world examples from current websites, shanty villages, air apps and cityscapes.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE - WORK AND PHILOSOPHY Soumya Sharma
MAJOR WORKS OF AR. VAN DER ROHE, ARCHITECTURAL STYLES - MINIMALISM,MODERNISM,INTERNATIONAL STYLEMODERNISM,CHARACTER OF WORKS,MATERIALS USED IN HIS DESIGN / CONSTRUCTION, STUDY OF MAJOR WORKS - BARCELONA PAVILION , TUGENDHAT VILLA , FARNSWORTH HOUSE.
Post-Modern Architecture - An international architectural movement that emerged in the 1960s, became prominent in the late 1970s and 80s, and remained a dominant force in the 1990s.
this presentation is all about frank o gehry and work of frank o gehry and some of his mater piece that makes him the most important architect of our age. and also includes all of his buidings in his career...
While Information Architecture took its name from architecture, it took very little else. This is not surprising, as the early days of the web were about making sites that supported the interaction between people and data. The obvious model back then was a library; a library is a space for humans to receive knowledge. But with the rise of social networks, and the integration of community into almost all online experiences, more architecture practices are directly transferable to design. Online spaces are no longer just about findability, but about falling in love, getting your work done, goofing around, reconnecting with old friends, staving off loneliness... humans doing human things.
As an early Information Architect who had been working in the search field, I found very little but entertainment from phenomenology's Gaston Bachelard or innovator Frank Gehry. But once I began working on social spaces, it all changed. We all know Christopher Alexander from his pattern-language approach to codifying design solutions, but if you go beyond the mere structure you find that in those patterns lies the answers to tricky privacy issues and the cold-start problem. Architects of buildings can help us form a new approach to the architecture of human spaces online. Poetics will go down easy with plenty of real world examples from current websites, shanty villages, air apps and cityscapes.
6 historical architectural wonders of the worldKenny Slaught
History is marked by great architectural accomplishments. These six are possibly some of the greatest ever built and each of them tell their own amazing story in the book of humanity.
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White House Architecture: Washington DC
Dr. Moreno/Modern Art III
November 13, 2014
White House: Washington, D.C
Introduction
White House acts as the official residence of U.S. president. It is found in Pennsylvania Avenue Washington D.C. White House was designed using Neoclassical style by James Hoban from Ireland, and building started from 1792 to 1800. However, the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe started planning for the outward expansion of the building to create two colonnades after Thomas Jefferson moved-in in 1801. The construction of the executive mansion was approved when Congress established the District of Columbia the capital of the United States in 1790. The architect was chosen through a competition of proposals which was won by James Hoban. Since then, the building has undergone the series of renovations (History of White House, 2012).
Architectural description
George Washington laid the first cornerstone of the building in a cornerstone ceremony in 1792. It is a grand mansion in the Neo-Classical Federal style , with details that echo classical Greek ionic architecture. Scottish masons were brought to DC to do the stone work. . The mansion would be covered in sandstone which created a slight problem. The masons were able to troubleshoot the issue by sealing the porous sandstone with a thick whitewash, this is where the white house first adopted it’s name. This would remain the largest residence in the United states until the 1860’s. The major White House façade which is at the north front consists of eleven bays and three floors. Ground floor is obstructed by parapet and raised carriage. This makes the façade be perceived to have two floors (Timelines-Architecture, 2007).
Figure 1.0: Floor Plan
Behind the prostyle portico are the three central bays added in 1830 circa and it serves as a Porte cochere. The four bays have windows that flank the portico. The first floor consists of alternating segmented and pointed pediments. The second floor has flat pediments. A lunette fanlight surmounts the center of the portico at the principal entrance. The sculpted floral festoon is found above the entrance. A balustrade parapet obstructs the roofline (William, 2008).
The façade at the southern comprises of both the neoclassical and Palladian architectural styles. The Palladian fashion has been used to rusticate the ground floor, while the center façade is designed in neoclassical style that projects a three-bay bow. Five bays flank the bow, with the windows at the north façade consisting of alternating pointed and segmented pediments at the first floor. The bow is made up of the double staircase at the ground floor that leads to the Ionic Colonnaded Logia referred to as the south portico. The second floor of the bow is made up of Truman Balcony. The modernized third floor obstructed by the balustrade parapet and is insignificant a.
The seven wonders of the world have been compiled from antiquity to the present day, to catalog the worlds most spectacular natural wonder and man made structures .
The seven wonders of the world are impressive monuments regarded with awe and wonder. The New 7 Wonders Foundation in in Switzerland received around 200 entries from across the world,and it finally short-listed twenty one finalists . In 2007, the final list of the seven modern wonders were announced in Lisbon, Portugal.
1. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel A masterpiece of oriental aesthetics and seismic engineering that should have endured the test of time as well as tremors
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3. “ The time of awakening must come sooner or later. And then the country will be face to face with the costly necessity of getting rid of all these modern architectural monstrosities and evolving a style more in consonance with Japanese traditions and really characteristic of the people.”
6. Imperial integration The new Imperial Hotel was also to represent Japan’s emergence from an isolated island of primitive folkways into the modern nation it had become since U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew Perry had opened it up to American trade in 1854. To these ends, Wright conceived the hotel as a hybrid of eastern and western design.
7. Imperial innovation Remembering the 1894 earthquake’s damage of Tokyo’s first Imperial Hotel, Wright placed the new one on a floating concrete foundation he devised to withstand tremors.
8. Imperial impression The hotel adapted the overhanging clay-tiled roofs of Japanese temples and teahouses, the earth-hugging horizontality of Wright’s American Prairie Style homes such as the Robie House in Chicago from 1910, and the stepped, setback ziggurat form of the ancient Mexican Mayan shrines that inspired his California home designs. Poured concrete and concrete block were the principal building materials.
9. “ But in its scale, and in its play with surprise elements, the Imperial Hotel is completely Japanese…There were little terraces and little courts, infinitely narrow passages suddenly opening into large two- or three-storey spaces…And there were many different levels, both inside the rooms and outside the buildings, including connecting bridges between the two long, parallel wings of guest-rooms.” — Peter Blake, Frank Lloyd Wright: Architecture and Space Imperial inhabitation
10. On the very day of its dedication, Sept. 1, 1923, the great Kanto earthquake struck Tokyo and Yokohama, destroying more than 570,000 homes and claiming more than 100,000 lives, but leaving the Imperial Hotel intact with minimal damage. The floating foundation assured its salvation. Thus the hotel opened its doors to foreign embassy staff, foreign correspondents, and thousands of earthquake refugees, who were fed there until relief supplies arrived from the United States. Imperial imperviousness
11. Nor did the earthquake impede the Imperial from becoming Tokyo’s social center for travelers, tycoons, movie stars and heads of state from all over the world. Distinguished guests included Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner, and General Douglas MacArthur. Imperial international
12. Arriving guests were cooled by the reflecting pool out front and received under the porte-cochere, which reminded some of them of the old Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. A soft Japanese lava stone called Oya enabled Wright to proliferate the hotel with Mayan-style carving, including geometric abstractions of scarabs, turtles and peacocks . Imperial incredulity
13. Imperial impenetrability The copper rain gutters atop the perimeter of the building drained through elaborately patterned grills, which in turn shaped the falling rain water into 50 to 70-foot-high patterns of its own as it fell to the ground below.
14. Imperial introduction Guests were awestruck by the three-story lobby’s palatial extravaganza of Mayan and Japanese embellishment, executed in green volcanic rock, pierced terra cotta grillwork and golden brick.
15. Imperial interiors The lobby’s beige and turquoise Native American carpets, woven in Peking, led guests through a labyrinth of quirky staircases and narrow passages (including “Peacock Alley,” pictured above) into a double-height dining room, theater, lounge and ballroom, all full of whimsical geometric designs.
18. To some, these designs recalled ancient Egyptian, Mayan, Native American or Asian cultures, depending on where you were coming from. Imperial intercultural
19. To others, the designs were ‘Wright’ in step with the Art Deco jazz age that was sweeping America in the ’20s and ’30s. Imperial in style
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23. Imperial immolation By 1968, floods, earthquakes, pollution and wartime bombing had critically damaged the hotel’s structural foundations, which a team of seismic specialists declared unsafe to endure future tremors. Besides, the hotel’s low scale and vast outdoor space didn’t stand a chance against Tokyo’s rising land values. Despite a plea from Wright’s widow Olgivanna to save and restore the building, the hotel management decided it was more cost-effective to tear it down. And so they did, along with its annexes.
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