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Some types of architecture manipulate space, volume, texture, light, shadow, or abstract elements, to achieve pleasing aesthetics. [20] Architectural works may be seen as cultural and political symbols, or works of art. The role of the architect, though changing, has been central to the design and implementation of pleasingly built environments ...
Architectural discourse from the illustrated French Dictionary of Architecture (1856) by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. Architectural theory is the act of thinking, discussing, and writing about architecture. Architectural theory is taught in all architecture schools and is practiced by the world's leading architects.
Unlike many architectural historians before him, Joseph Rykwert had not been concerned with architectural style or the classical language per se, but rather with the meaning of a particular design that should always find its own appropriate expression. Throughout his work he had been concerned with professional architectural practice as much as ...
Bachelard applies the method of phenomenology to architecture, basing his analysis not on purported origins (as was the trend in Enlightenment thinking about architecture) but on lived experience in architectural places and their contexts in nature. He focuses especially on the personal, emotional response to buildings both in life and in ...
A 1521 Italian language edition of De architectura, translated and illustrated by Cesare Cesariano Manuscript of Vitruvius; parchment dating from about 1390. De architectura (On architecture, published as Ten Books on Architecture) is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect and military engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus ...
Photography "Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village," according to Martin R. [3] it is an architectural work, which may serve as one of the first manifestations of postmodernism. Architecture assumed a much more significant role after establishing of the phenomenon of Postmodernism. According to R. Martin "it remains surprising how many ...
De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building) is a classic architectural treatise written by Leon Battista Alberti between 1443 and 1452. [1] Although largely dependent on Vitruvius's De architectura, it was the first theoretical book on the subject written in the Italian Renaissance, and in 1485 it became the first printed book on architecture ...
Architecture can mean: A general term to describe buildings and other physical structures. [9] The art and science of designing buildings and (some) nonbuilding structures; [9] sometimes called "architectonics" [10] The style of design and method of construction of buildings and other physical structures. [9] A unifying or coherent form or ...