October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. Sometimes all it takes is a good floor to create a place. In the case of Philip Johnson’s glass house in […]
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October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. Consider the roof: It protects us from the elements; keeps the rain off; provides shelter. It also is a major determinant […]
October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. Doors are another form of filter that get placed in a wall. Doors are meant to allow us control over who […]
October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. Walls are designed by their nature to keep things either in or out. Windows are filters in the wall. Windows allow views […]
October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. Another of my favorite buildings is a tomb, a mausoleum, called The Tempietto (the little temple), built by Donato Bramante as […]
October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. One of my favorite buildings, one that I find not just impressive, but emotionally moving, is The Pantheon. It was commissioned […]
October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. I have written about this before, but I think that the Origin of Architecture was when the first early people stood […]
October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. Marc Antoine Laugier was an 18th century Jesuit Priest and architectural theorist. He developed the idea that architecture, the human act […]
October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. In the modern era, Le Corbusier, the great Swiss-French architect, one of the Modern Masters of Architecture, developed a method of […]
October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. I believe that architecture starts with us, humans. There is no better illustration of the idea of the centrality of human […]
October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. Wish me luck. :p To start off: My Personal Architectural Creed. I have posted this before, and it has a page […]