Rose Seidler Home Analysis

Sydney Ancher was a Sydney based architect whose work is known for its simplicity. The development Ancher had throughout his practice, as noted by Robin Boyd, was an “unaffected, uncomplicated and undeviating search for simplicity2.” Ancher encountered the work of Mies van der Rohe at an international building exhibition in Berlin, in 1931, during his five years of travel and work abroad and has been influenced by it since then3. The work was a single storey building with extensive use of glass walls and a modular plan that linked indoor and outdoor space,

Elizabeth Bay house that was built between 1835 and 1839 as the home of Alexander Macleay became one of the Australian historic houses and opened as a museum in 1977. This is a critical analysis of comparing and contrasting between the historic and contemporary design. The first object that has been chosen from Elizabeth Bay house was the ‘cabinet’ (picture 1) that was made for Alexander Macleay in the late 18th century and the second object is contemporary cabinet which is called “Delphine Cabinet” (picture 2) made by the company named Coco Republic design. In this critical analysis, firstly it will demonstrate the detail information of each item. Secondly, it will explain the significance between the two objects that related to the international design movement during their time.

As Civil Architect for Sydney town, Greenway designed many Sydney buildings and monuments, some of which have become well known landmarks. Greenway’s projects that he completed wereincluded the lighthouse near South Head, the Female Factory, New Government House, the Supreme Court and many churches such as St James Church (as you can see in Figure 2). Greenway also introduced design elements that responded specifically to the harsh Australian conditions which were very different those in England. (Brash.N, 2008)

Australia is one of the continents over the world. The vast, varied land and the culture in this abundant place has a deep and lasting impact to the architectural design traditions—Tectonic. Tectonic can be regarded as one distinctive characteristic which is relating to building or architectural construction. It also gives ability for people to read a structure, or see how a structure was put together. Among those architects who had used this tradition in their designs, Donovan Hill and Glenn Murcutt, as Australian architectures, have their own style relates to tectonic. For example, Donovan Hill composes different materials and layered against with one another in D House, while Murcutt establishes a harmonious connection to the surrounding landscape and local climate with Magney House.

Philip M Dingemanse is an acclaimed Tasmanian architect, he has won many awards and prizes, including the ‘2015 Emerging Architect Prize’ for his ‘Valley House’, and his ‘Southern Outlet House’ appeared on Channel Ten’s ‘The Living Room’. His designs focus on the incorporation of contemporary technologies and materials into one seamless, adventurous form that has a unique, modern style. This is seen in his works ‘Valley House’ and ‘Southern Outlet House’.

The Buhrich House II was designed and built between 1968-1972 by Hugh Buhrich and served as the families home until his death in 2004. Situated in Castlecrag in the North Shore of Sydney it is considered one of the finest example of modern houses in Australia with historic, aesthetic, cultural and social value. The house embodies through design a particular evolution of international influences of Modernism in the 20th century and is a “intensely personal” project having a direct link to the architects life.

Architecture should not be separated from political and social life of human-beings. On the contrary, “throughout the history, architects have always been involved to some extent to politics, and have a nearly always sought positions of power and influence’’. Communist ideology in the Soviet Union had a huge impact on architectural development of many modern nations: Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Azerbaijan. The amount of affected countries makes the topic of my analysis relevant and worth-discussing. My essay will be structured in a following way. I argue that communist ideology had an enormous impact on architecture

The building which drew upon classically derived elements conveyed the characteristics of a transitional period in architecture which used new materials, but in a traditional cloak or compositional straight jacket. Traced back to the classical architectural elements from Athens which Unites States adopted in their buildings, these elements often represented the political, social and aesthetic qualities of the city therefore it is reasonable for United States to derive the ancient classical form. Goldsbrough House however is designed to be a commercial building which does not associate with political element and Mr. Milne visit to England and the Continent before the building was built strengthened the claim that the design presumably derived the classical elements directly from overseas, without considering the local symbolism. Marshall states that building is often regarded as the symbolism of society than shelter, ‘particularly true of commercial building where the structure must form a permanent advertisement,’ but in the case of Goldsbrough House, it did not reflect the symbolism of South Australian society at that period, only architectural fashion from American commercial building

Modernism vs Neo-Traditionalism: A debate on the merits and failures of two major competing paradigms in architecture and urban planning.

Vernacular building is a typology which results from a direct response to regional context (Murphy 2011). While contemporary Australian architecture

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

The MW-1 2003 Contract was developed and published by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) and the Master Builders Association (MBA). This contract is the revised edition of the original ABIC MW-1 2001 contract

Heritage buildings, structures and places reflect the history of a city, the unique architecture. While Australia cannot does not have buildings which have stood for centuries, the collection of buildings and places of special significance tell a story of where we came from, what we as a city have achieved, who we are as a society and our cultural expectations. The importance of heritage in our built environment is well recognised; heritage buildings may be significant for aesthetic, historic social, spiritual or technical reasons, (The Australian Institute of Architects, 2008#). Architects convey a vision, providing an opportunity to create a reality; this is vital in the integration of heritage conservation and urban development.

By the way, the architectural design after the war changed dramatically from pre-war, Modernism buildings to be based around straight lines and geometric composition became mainstream as if they adapted to the rationality that society demanded. But the introduction of modernism

Every designers and architects have their very own style of designs that would become their signature and would be recognized when people see their works. In this essay, I choose to write about the two distinguished Japanese architects, Tadao Ando and Shigeru Ban, and their works of Church of the Light and Cardboard Cathedral respectively.