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WHAT IS ARCHITECTURE?

  WHAT IS ARCHITECTURE ? Architecture has no particular definition because it just couldn’t be described in a few words or lines. It is very subjective as it varies from what architecture means to each individual. It is not something you just study or learn but you experience in the process. Architecture is a powerful combination of art, science and technology, history, etc. altogether. But it is also about many more things than that like people, culture, traditions, food, etc. I think architecture is something that we make for the people and experience the space they should have or will have in the building space. Each edge, corner or side should be able to connect to the people for whom it is going to be built for. The spaces should not just be made as usable but should be made like in order to make a special place in a person’s heart, which can be a balcony/gallery, a beautiful patio, even a corner of a room, etc. When a person feels connected to the space it starts to create a swee
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LUNATIC IS ALWAYS A CHARM

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LUNATIC IS ALWAYS A CHARM   DON'T YOU FEEL THAT CRAZY IS NOT ALWAYS A BAD OPTION TO GO FOR, NOT ONLY YOU HAVE FUN BUT YOU DO FIND YOURSELF IN THIS PROCESS WHICH KIND OF GOT FORGOTTEN ALL THE WAY AND THESE YEARS. SO, FOR A CHANGE LET'S FORGET THOSE RIGID, BOX STRUCTURES AND HAVE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE INSANE PROJECTS ALL OVER THE GLOBE!!!!!  The Crooked House The Crooked House is located at Rezydent Shopping Center in Sopot, Poland. Designed by architect Szotynscy Zaleski, the building looks like a painting by a drunk painter. Built in 2004, the building is considered to be one of the most photographed structures in Poland. The Dancing House The Dancing House or Fred and Ginger is the Nationale-Nederlanden building in Prague, Czech Republic. The building was designed by Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunic and Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. The construction of the building began in 1992 and was completed in 1996. The style of the modern glass building is known as deco
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PIER LUIGI NERVI

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  PIER LUIGI NERVI NAME : PIER LUIGI NERVI   BORN : 21 JUNE 1891, SONDRIO, ITALY NATIONALITY : ITALIAN    EDUCATION : UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA IN 1913 OCCUPATION : STRUCTURAL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT   KNOWN FOR : HIS INNOVATIVE USE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE.    EARLIER JOBS : SERVED IN THE CORPS OF ENGINEERING OF THE ITALIAN ARMY DURING WORLD WAR I FROM 1915 TO 1918   AWARDS :  GOLD MEDALS BY THE INSTITUTION OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS IN THE UK THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS (AIA GOLD MEDAL 1964)  .IN 1957, RECEIVED THE FRANK P. BROWN MEDAL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE AND THE WILHELM EXNER MEDAL. HIS  THEORY In his writings, Nervi constantly reminded readers that 90 percent of his contracts were awarded in competitions where the governing factors were economy and speed of construction. He thrived on these limitations and, indeed, "never found this relentless search for economy an obstacle to achieving the expressiveness of form" desired.  Nervi also stressed that intuition should b
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WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AT THE KNOSSOS PALACE GREECE

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  THE KNOSSOS PALACE, GREECE         INTRODUCTION The PALACE OF KNOSSOS is located in Crete city, in Greece. It was a major part of the MINOAN CIVILISATION The Palace had three water management systems -water storage, water harvesting, drainage and sewage system. Long-distance systems for transporting water to the urban areas had been developed since prehistoric times due to the mountainous terrain of Crete city. Conduits carried water from mountain springs to Palaces and cities ,utilizing a combination of open channels and closed pipes in Knossos . The main source of water supply at the palace of Knossos, initially, was the spring of Mavrokolymbos, a pure limestone spring located approximately 500 m southwest of the palace. As population increased ,other water sources developed from further distances and incorporated into the water supply system. A conduit made of terracotta was used to convey water from a water spring on the Gypsadhes hill to Knossos and was later extended to carry w
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A CITY IS NOT A TREE

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 A CITY IS NOT A TREE By Christopher Alexander   ABOUT THE AUTHOR Christopher Wolfgang Alexander (born: 4th October 1936, in Vienna, Austria) is a widely influential British-American architect, design theorist, and currently a professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. As a theorist, teacher, author, practicing architect, and builder, Alexander has taken it upon himself to question everything, from construction details and the effects of color to the process by which a global species makes and remakes its environment and, beyond, to the objective bases of beauty itself. Questions like, what is an architect? What is a good building? Should architects strive for beauty in their work? What is beauty? Christopher Alexander has explored such fundamental questions in greater depth or breadth, or with greater persistence, clarity, and originality of thought.  His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including ur
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THE POETICS OF SPACE

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  THE POETICS OF SPACE BY: GASTON BACHELARD ABOUT THE AUTHOR At the twilight of his career, he decides to take a new approach by reflecting on literature and poetry and using imagination to explore a reality that is not subject to reasoning.  His implicitly urges architects to base their work on the experiences as it will engender rather than on abstract rationales that may or may not affect viewers and users of architecture. He also discusses psychoanalysis and the work of the psychiatrist Carl Jung. Comparing the psychoanalytic and phenomenological approaches to his subject matter, he sees merit in both, but finds the phenomenological approach preferable. He observes that imagination is a major power of human nature. He packs his text with lyrical quotations, helping the reader to imagine the house as a place sewn together from poetic images, facets and stories. THE REVIEW  A densely lyrical, almost magical book on the experience of architecture It is a non-fiction philosophical stud
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HOUSE FORM AND CULTURE

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   HOUSE FORM AND CULTURE BY : AMOS RAPOPORT   THE BOOK  COMPILES OF THE EFFECTS OF THE CULTURES AND THE  HOUSE FORM AND CULTURE PRESENTS CROSS- CULTURAL STUDIES OF DWELLINGS, BUILDINGS AND SETTLEMENTS WITHIN THE FIELDS OF ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING AND CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY.  ABOUT THE AUTHOR AMOS RAPOPORT BORN ON 28 MARCH 1929, WARSAW.  AN ARCHITECT AND ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF ENVIRONMENT-BEHAVIOR STUDIES (EBS). HE IS THE AUTHOR OF OVER 200 ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS IN THIS FIELD, INCLUDING BOOKS THAT HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING FRENCH, SPANISH, GERMAN, PERSIAN, JAPANESE, KOREAN AND CHINESE.  HE HAS HELD HONORABLE AND VISITING POSITIONS IN MANY UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE GLOBE, IS PROFESSOR EMERITUS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE. HIS WORK HAS FOCUSED MAINLY ON THE ROLE OF CULTURAL VARIABLES, CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES, AND THEORY DEVELOPMENT AND SYNTHESIS.                                 CHAPTER I : THE NATURE AND DEFINITION OF FIELD This chapter starts with intr
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