Religious architecture

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION Earthen construction has evolved with mankind and creates housing opportunities world-wide. Building with stabilized compressed earthen bricks (SCEBs) is becoming more popular due to the low cost, relative abundance of materials, and quality product performance. The majority of developing countries are today faced with an ever increasing problem of providing sufficient yet low-cost housing in sufficient numbers. In the last few decades, shelter conditions have

Introduction This paper is the result of a research gap regarding the topic of Braamfontein from an information architecture point-of-view. What Terence and I concluded, after wildly searching for relevant sources that would subsequently inform my Interaction Design (IxD) dissertation, was that credible information pertaining to Braamfontein is undeniably few and far between. Well, no, it’s there, but the information wasn’t exactly what we were looking for. In fact there has been extensive research

Gullichsen, the owners of this villa provided Aalto a chance to express his thoughts of transformation from traditional to modern architecture. This villa is actually a mixture of timber strips, brick wall and also rendered masonry. It is not only consist of the traditional Finnish vernacular and modern design, but also the influence of the English and Japanese architecture. This can be seen in the sauna of this villa, which is built with wooden walls and flat grass roof, just like a Japanese tea house

just their achievements as a city, but they were also acknowledged for being founders of additional big cities such as London and Paris in which elevated to their levels of dominance and power. Ancient Rome leaders who were strongly engaged with architecture as a form of political and urban art, include: Augustus (27 BCE-14 CE), Tiberius (14-37), Caligula (37-41), Claudius (41-54), Nero (54-68), Vespasian (69-79), Titus (79-81), Domitian (81-96), Trajan (98-117), Hadrian (117-138), Antoninus Pius (138-161)

passion down to architecture. What could be greater than wanting to design these great edifices and seeing your design built for people to integrate into part of the lives. My application to your university derives from my eagerness to study at one of the best universities in the UK and from my desire to create well designed spaces that are both practical and gratifying to the eye. It also hopes to ensure a satisfaction for my passion for practicality, my appreciation of architecture and hopefully

A building is designed for functionality. This principle has served as the cornerstone of architecture in the United States and throughout the world since the first hut of the Mesopotamian civilization. As the centuries go by, this principle started to deviate. With a series of political debris left over from the World War II, the Cold War and the revitalizing economic policies of the Reagan Era, Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry was able to shatter the established architectural norm of the

even, no architecture without program.” He then continues with, “Architecture cannot be dissociated from the events that ‘happen’ in it” (Tschumi, 139). Spaces have always been assimilated with past references, which create a type of familiarization and attachment to the past that prevents time from moving forward. Because of this assumption about the form, function, and meaning; thus architecture has been restricted by these familiarization and these assumptions. The history of architecture has been

When is Architecture Architecture? “Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build.” This claim was made by German philosopher Martin Heidegger in his lecture ‘Building Dwelling Thinking’. In the lecture Heidegger goes beyond architectural and design practices by referring ‘building’ not only in architectural construction, but to the whole range of human productive activity. When thinking about ‘dwelling’ it is usually connected to buildings. The goal of a building is to allow one to

Introduction With the rapid change in construction and manufacturing processes today, the architectural design may reflect these new innovative changes. The book, Made by Robots: Challenging Architecture at a Larger Scale, presents a shift between the old, traditional manufacturing processes to the new role that robotics is beginning to adapt in the infrastructure process, closing the gap between design and fabrication. Efficiency, costs, and the concept of a design process involving communication

American postmodern architecture has more focus on culture, the specific theme of that moment, but the problem of formalization started to show up. Deconstructivism, a critical architectural movement in the postmodern age, usually has nice control on the structural surface as the building’s skin and use the randomly geometric shapes to show the twisting architectural elements. Frank Gehry is a typical post-modernism and deconstructivism architect, Americans like to call him “another Frank” because