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Theastre Gates' minimalist exhibition, How To Build A House Museum, is a historic event for the Art Gallery of Ontario. Commonly regarded as a somewhat conventional gallery, Gates' immersive work is a monumental step towards engaging the AGO with contemporary artists lives and works. As we walk into the fifth floor, the audience feels as if we have crossed through time to another space, similar to the transportive journey that listening to music or being in a club takes you on. Gates uses his art to evoke that same form of escapism. However, once your mind feels relaxed and is open to take in the exhibit, Gates throws a multitude of historical graphs, personal items and architecture layered in meaning onto you, as a reminder that this whole

Before one can discuss the purpose of something, they must fully understand it and a definition is a great place to start. Harm reduction can be defined as reducing physical, mental, and spiritual damage, by creating a safer environment including, having sturdy social supports, education, improved hygiene and just about any positive factors you can think of. The context in which this paper discusses harm reduction is within an SUD (Substance Use Disorder) environment. In this case, harm reduction is a strategy to reduce the dangerous effects of drug use, not by eliminating the use, but rather creating a safer environment to use, which in the end can turn into abstinence.

Architecture should be nurturing, responsive and alive, dynamically shifting spatial balances, organically expressive forms, subtly luminous colors and biologically healthy. To achieve such life-enhancing architecture, it has to address all the body senses simultaneously and fuse our image of self with experience of the world. By strengthening our sense of self and reality, architecture serves its all-important function of accommodation and

Architecture is often mistaken as purely an art form, when in actually it is where art and engineering or art and practicality meet. For example, painting is an art, when preformed well it yields a beautiful picture that evokes a deep human reaction and brings pleasure to its viewer, however this painting provides no function, it cannot shield us from the rain or protect us from the wind or snow, it is purely form. An insulated aluminum shed provides shelter and protection from Mother Nature; however, it is a purely functional building, it was drawn by an engineer, not conceived by an artist to have form. The culmination of form and function is Architecture, the Greeks and Romans fathered this idea and Palladio’s study of roman architecture taught him his valuable truth.

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Different architects have different styles because they are trying to get at different things. Architecture is not just about making something beautiful anymore, it is about trying to get across a set of ideas about how we inhabit space. Two of the most famous architects of the twentieth century, one from each side, the early part and the later part up until today each designed a museum with money donated by the Guggenheim foundation. One of these is in New York City, it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The other is in bilbao, Spain, and it was designed by Frank Geary. My purpose of this paper is to interrogate each of these buildings, glorious for different reasons, to show how each architect was expressing their own style.

On his book on Modern Architecture, Curtis writes that modern architecture was faulted for it’s “supposed lack of ‘recognizable imagery’” towards the end of the 1970s. This statement supports the idea of Jencks’ double coding where architects must now make

Venus is an odd planet, its day is 243 Earth days, but its year is 225 Earth days. Even though Venus has odd features like, it’s the hottest planet and it isn’t the closest to the sun. But with all its odd features NASA has discovered life on it. NASA is calling it a “Boo”. This amazing excotic creature cand stand up to 1,000’F just a little over the temperature on Venus at 880’F Also it drinks acid rain and eats igneous rock, and prefers to take showers in lava.

“Portugal,” she responded. “Beautiful estate. Very modern.” By which she meant the building was nearly indiscernible from the landscape outside. By year 2105 people appreciated nature, and those with the ability to pay for the technology to restore their lands to something that could support life did so. Modern interior design however could mean anything though. But Ellis knew Emmanuel cared about as little about interior design has bunny cared about whether the moon was made of cheese or fairy farts.

The book consists of twelve chapters that propose this idea that designers should explore the nature of our senses’ response to the spatial built forms that people invest their time in. It tries to cover a specific topic in each chapter that in order to deconstruct the book, it is necessary to cover each chapter individually.

This book was written by Juhani Pallasmaa with regard to ‘Polemics’, on issues that were part of the architecture discourse of the time, i.e. 1995. It is also an extending of ideas expressed in an essay entitled “Architecture of the seven senses” published in 1994.

“ Architecture organizes and structures space for us, and its interiors and the objects enclosing and inhabiting its rooms can facilitate or inhibit our activities by the way they use this language”(Lawson pg.6).

Language in architecture is considered an imperative part of designing, embedding itself within architectural gestures spanning a number of historical periods including contemporary projects of today. Throughout William Whyte’s essay ‘How Do Buildings Mean? Some Issues of Interpretation in the History of Architecture’ (2006), Whyte thoroughly dissects the concept of ‘meaning’ within architecture, questioning a number of approaches to discerning the meaning behind a building.

This subject was suggested as a possible topic from the course outline. As it is an area of much interest and controversy was chosen as the direction of study for the paper. Previous research into Virtual Reality (VR), coupled with a particular interest in its architectural application also proved motivating. However, although the direction of the initial research appeared straightforward, after further investigation it became obvious that there were in fact two distinctly different interpretations that could be drawn from the area of Virtualism in Architecture. This division was between whether VR was used FOR architecture (VR used as a tool to aid in architectural design). Or whether it was used AS

Architecture can be viewed with two different types of properties. Properties that can be seen like shapes, their composition, the spaces they create and, the colours and textures that make up their appearance. These properties are considered to be visual while other properties are considered to be abstract. These properties can only be described using words; the meanings behind the architecture and the stories that can be told about it. The context, its cultural background and its function also affects how we view architecture. The question is, what