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Miller House, Mid-century Modern, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57, "Conversation Pit". Japanese minimalist interior living room, 19th century. In Western architecture, a living room , also called a lounge room ( Australian English [ 1 ] ), lounge ( British English [ 2 ] ), sitting room ( British English [ 3 ] ), or drawing room , is a room for ...
Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century. No single style is dominant. [1] Contemporary architects work in several different styles, from postmodernism, high-tech architecture and new references and interpretations of traditional architecture [2] [3] to highly conceptual forms and designs, resembling sculpture on an enormous scale.
In 1853 Coignet built the first iron reinforced concrete structure, a four-storey house in the suburbs of Paris. [7] A further important step forward was the invention of the safety elevator by Elisha Otis, first demonstrated at the New York Crystal Palace exposition in 1854, which made tall office and apartment buildings practical. [8]
Cottage gardens typify the cottagecore aesthetic. Cottagecore (sometimes referred to as countrycore or farmcore ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is an aesthetic idealising rural life. Originally based on a rural European life, [ 3 ] it was developed throughout the 2010s and was first named cottagecore on Tumblr in 2018. [ 4 ]
Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. [1] The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. [ 2 ]
The aesthetic may convey moods of eeriness, surrealness, nostalgia, or sadness, and elicit responses of both comfort and unease. [5] This image depicting an empty playground may elicit unease by being stripped of its expected context (that is, the presence of children).
In France aesthetic speculation grew out of the discussion by poets and critics on the relation of modern art; and Boileau in the 17th century, the development of the dispute between the "ancients" and the "moderns" at the end of the 17th century by B. le Bouvier de Fontenelle and Charles Perrault, and the continuation of the discussion as to ...
The World Trade Center design brought criticism of its aesthetics from the American Institute of Architects and other groups. [ 85 ] [ 88 ] Lewis Mumford , author of The City in History and other works on urban planning , criticized the project and described it and other new skyscrapers as "just glass-and-metal filing cabinets."