On Being an Architect

Ever since I was young, I have had an eye for aesthetic arrangement and structure. These things are what I observe first when I see anything around me. Observing buildings, houses, and natural surroundings is what I love to ... , and ideas started floating in my mind. My grandfather would explain me the technicalities in the floor plans and I would sit with my parents during their meetings with the architect. Two new rooms were added and I saw the steel and concrete that went into the making of the rooms and unlike other kids of my age, I found it interesting ... house, my room, our garden an...

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... an architect most commonly known for designing the Chrysler building in New York City. Van Alen was a great and dedicated architect, yet sadly in 1954 he passed away with little recognition for his work. After designing the famous Chrysler building his career and professional status began to diminish. William Van Alen was known for his independence and his instance of being ... 1924, Van Alen designed the Childs restaurant which became the first building constructed using cantilevered construction in New York. He then expounded on his idea for the Childs restaurant and designed The Lucky ...

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Social judgment revolves around the idea of viewpoints in a social environment. Many times, people think of themselves as taking an objective view on an issue. However, Muzafer Sherif argues that there is a line of latitude that affects a person's bias. This bias is illustrated in ... the other jurors. He also could not say a statement he believed for certain, which gave him a low level of acceptance. The architect's comparison point, or anchor, focused more on the boy at trial than any other evidence (Griffin, 183). Thus, the comments of the other jurors became simplistic and he always ... hi...

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... . I will look at the struggle Murcutt has faced being an Architect in Australia. And show, with examples, how his work is a convincing synthesis of regional character, climate-conditioned solutions, technological rationality and unconstrained visual expression, all the while satisfying the specific needs of the individual client. Murcutt won the Alva Aalto Medal when Finland honoured an architect from the other side of the world in ... conservative on the whole, and doesn't understand why he has to fight council for reasonable and appropriate buildings. He says the problem is that the co...

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... would naturally think that there would be consideration of the town when designing the buildings. This, however, is not always the case. In An Introduction to Urban Design, Jonathan Barnett states, "If you believe cities can be designed, nothing is more frustrating than to watch the continuous ... , suffer and wonder. How at home architecture could be in street and town."" Beyond a home, he believed, architecture can be applied in planning an urban environment. He was, however, quite extreme in his ideas. "Start from zero!- he declared when proposing to tear down the center of Paris ......

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... an entrance or doorway, repeated along a wall as decoration, or used to support a heavy roof. The United States has also used the arch as a monument of our expansion to the west from 1803 to 1890. The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri was constructed from 1961 to 1965 by the well known architect ... Corinthian columns are the most intricate in design compared to the other two columns. The earliest and most characteristic Corinthian capitals consist of an inverted bell, surrounded by a row of acanthus leaves, with pairs of scrolls supporting the corners of the abacus. The Corinthian col...

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... guns, planes, gas shells, tanks and submarines. At home whole industries were turned over to war production: guns, shells, tanks, planes, and so on. Women, who used to live a purely domestic life, were now working in large numbers in factories while their men went out to the battlefields. Society ... Design' in the service of social man. THE BAUHAUS PHILOSOPHY The basic philosophy of the Bauhaus as defined by the architect Gropius and the artists Itten and Kandinsky can be outlined as follows: 1) An integration of all the arts 2) Design for mass production methods and standardization. 3)...

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... . Bauhaus is the famous German school of design that had inestimable influence on modern architecture, the industrial and graphic arts, including typography. It was founded in 1919 by architect Walter Gropius in Weimar as a merger of an art academy and an arts and crafts school. The Bauhaus was based on the 19th century English designer William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement ... Typography, the architecture were smooth and untextured and showed purism with and emphasis on straight edges and slim forms New International Style architecture buildings came across with a visually wei...

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... not independent thinkers, unable or unwilling to see the truth of new ideas, who make real life decisions based on what others think about their perception about life. To support his view, Rand describes an anecdote about a man called Howard Roark, a brilliant young architect of a modern school, whose bold and innovative designs are rejected by large segments of the society. Roark has shown ... minds of the present and future college graduates by making them wonder whether the American society should follow the Collectivism or the Individualism code of ethics?". Although Rand is being s...

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