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MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (MoMA)

- July 26, 2020

Museum of Modern Art is one of the largest and most influential art museums in the world, located in Midtown Manhattan, New York, which develops and collects modern art. Set amidst the chaos of the city, MoMA is surrounded by other buildings with various characters. MoMA was the rise of modern art, it fearlessly exhibited the modern era even through all the discouragement, and changed the perspective of people towards a better vision. HISTORY · 1929-39 The idea of the museum was formulated by Abby Aldrich Rockfeller, Lillie P. Bliss, and Marry Quinn Sullivan, later known as the “The Ladies”. They rented quarters for the Museum and opened it on 7 November 1929. · 1930s-1940s Philip Johnson was hired to redesign the Museum’s garden. Throughout time, MoMA has changed its location several times before finding its pe rmanent home. It was renovated into International Style by modernist architects, Philip L. Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone . · 1980-1999

POST MODERNISM VS DECONSTRUCTIVISM

- July 08, 2020

Postmodern style of architecture emerged in the 1960s, it was the reaction against austerity, formality, lack of variety in Modern Architecture, especially International Style. Modernism suffered gradual crisis after1945. Science, technology, reason showed its destructive side and resulted in the loss of faith among people, this gave way to a new style of architecture, i.e., Post Modern Architecture. This style opposed the modernist preoccupation with the purity of form and techniques by embracing diversity and eradicating divisions between art, popular culture and media. Deconstructivism literally translates into “breaking down”, this style of architecture does not follow the rules of classical architecture. This style appeared in the 1980s and was a part of Post Modern Architecture. This style is characterised by the absence of harmony, continuity and symmetry. Deconstructivism views architecture in bits and pieces has no visual logic and appears to be made up of abstract forms

FRANK LLYOD WRIGHT

- June 24, 2020

Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1956), an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, had a creative period of 70 years. He designed 1141 structures of which 532 were completed by his death. His philosophy was to design structures in harmony with humanity and its environment and is best exemplified by “Falling Waters (1935)”, best all-time work of American Architecture. Born on June 8, 1867, in the town of Richland Center, Wisconsin, Frank was always interested in making structures with wooden building blocks which came in different geometrical shapes, this geometrical clarity can be seen in his buildings. Wright attended Madison High School, but there is no evidence he graduated. In 1886, he was admitted to University of Wisconsin-Madison, as a special student, but left in 1887 without taking a degr ee a n d moved to Chicago and joined an architectural firm, Joseph Lyman Silsbee, later he worked for A dler and Sullivan. Wright played a key rol

Bamboo - Building Construction Material

- June 08, 2020

Since time immemorial, bamboo has played an impo rtant in the development of mankind. Bamboo is a natural composite material with a high strength-to-weight ratio, which is generally similar to strong softwood or hardwood. They are the fastest-growing plants, certain species growing up to 35 inches in 24 hours. HISTORIC USE The regions traditionally associated with the use of bamboo as a building material are South and East Asia, South Pacific and Central and South America. In China and India, bamboo was used to holding up simple suspension bridges by making cables of split bamboo or twisting whole culms of bamboo together. In Japanese architecture, it was used as supplemental and/or decorative elements like fencing, fountains, grates and gutters. To date, most high profile bamboo construction projects are in Vietnam, Bali, China and Columbia. BAMBOO HOUSING · FOUNDATIONS 1. Bamboo in-direct ground contact 2. Bamboo on rock or perforated concrete footi

Art Nouveau - The New Art

- May 25, 2020

At the beginning of 1890, the US witnessed a new ornamental style of art, architecture and applied arts, especially the decorative arts known as Art Nouveau, which lasted till 1914. This new style spread throughout the US and Europe, taking on different names and character in each country, as a reaction to academic art and heterogeneous historic 19th-century architecture and decoration. The new art movement had its roots in Britain, in floral designs of William Morris, and within the Art and Crafts Movement founded by his pupils. The main inspirations for this style were the Arts and Crafts movement (handcraftsmanship and highly expressive paintings) and Japanese art (flat perspective, strong colours and whiplash curves). The characteristics of Art Nouveau were as follows: · The decoration had a sense of dynamism and movement with no distinction between the structure and the ornament · Facades were asymmetrical and decorated with whiplash curves like the gra

Louvre Pyramid - The Introduction for Modern French Architecture

- May 18, 2020

Louvre Pyramid completed in1989, designed by I. M. Pei, is a large glass and metal pyramid in the main courtyard of Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) in Paris, France. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum and is surrounded by three smaller pyramids. Amid the controversies that surrounded the structure, Louvre Pyramid stands in front of the world’s most visited museum and despite its relative youth, it has become a vital part of Paris’ renowned skyline. The structure is entirely made up of glass segments and metal poles, and has a height of 21.6 meters (71 feet) and a base surface area of 1000 square meters (11,000 square feet). It has a total of 603 rhombus-shaped and 70 triangle-shaped glass segments, which was an effort to make the pyramid as transparent as possible. The main reason the Pyramid and the underground lobbies were created was the series of problems with Louvre’s original main entrance which could no longer handle the

Zaha Hadid- The Queen of Curves

- May 14, 2020

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid was a British-Iraqi architect born on 31st October 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She grew up in Baghdad’s first Bauhaus inspired buildings and became the founder of the leading Zaha Hadid Architects which has designed over 950 projects in 44 different countries. She was also talented in painting, graphic arts, 3D models and computer designs. EDUCATION: Alma Mater- American University of Beirut and Architectural Association School of Architecture. She read Mathematics at The American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where she met Rem Koolhas, Elia Zenghelis and Bernard Tschumi. Then she worked for her former professors, Koolhaas and Zenghelis, at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands of which she became a partner in 1977. Zaha Hadid became the first woman to be awarded Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, for her internationally known theoreti

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