Speer’s appointment as Architect of the Third Reich contributed greatly to his rise in prominence. Karl Hanke was the district leader of the Nazi Party, and knew of Speer’s architectural qualities. He then employed Speer to redecorate the inside of the new district organisation headquarters. Hanke moved swiftly up the ranks and hired Speer for projects such as; the redecoration of the new district headquarters in
The Medieval Cathedral in its Cultural Setting 1. How was the medieval cathedral related to its: a.) political b.) economic c.) social, and d.) religious setting? The cathedrals built during the medieval era were related to many aspects of medieval life due to the fact that the construction of a single cathedral was such a large production, let alone the construction of dozens upon dozens in Europe’s towns and cities.
The most important lession he learn was that “history is not an enemy, and that modernism is not the only resourse for a designer.” The influence of history, and using the lessons you learn from it, is very evident in Glaser’s work. Milton Glaser is very unique in his approach to modern design. In a time where everyone was heavily leaning on photography, Glaser strongly believes in an illustrative methodology. His illustrative approach can be traced back to his time spent under Morandi, who also strongly believes in the art of drawing and illustration. With his time spent in Italy, he
Why was Isambard Brunel important in the Industrial Revolution? Brunel (1806-1859)is famous for his technological achievements in the field of engineering. However, as well as having very broad interests, his most outstanding feature was his all round ability within each of the endeavours he undertook. If we consider his Great Western Railway, he designed the track layout, the track itself, the rolling stock, the tunnels, the bridges, and the ship to take passengers to the United States from Bristol at the end of the line (the Great Western). He even designed the lamp-posts for the stations, was a director of the station hotel at Paddington, and when the going got tough, was not above getting down to doing some actual digging on the line himself.
Albrecht Durer was born in Germany on May 21, 1471. The son of a goldsmith, Durer was trained as a metalworker at a young age. Later, he applied the same meticulous, exacting methods he learned in his apprenticeship to his woodcuts and engravings, notably the Four Horsemen of his Apocalypse series (1498), and his Knight, Death and Devil (1513). As a result, Durer was renowned for his detail and precision, and became one of the most influential painters of his time. Durer frequently traveled to Italy; most of his works were inspired by Italian artists such as Leonardo da Vinci.
Many individuals were gifted with artistic skill and creativity. I will talk about how the Mediterranean influenced the Northern Artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Peter Paul Rubens, Simon Vouet and Anthony van Dyck. I will pick one famous piece of each and explain how they used Baroque or Italian features. Albrecht Dürer was born May 21, 1471 in the Franconian city of Nuremberg, one of the artistic and commercial centers in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. He was a painter, draftsman and writer but his greatest artistic impact was in the medium of printmaking.
Marc Quinn is one of the most interesting and compelling artists working today. He was born in London in 1964, graduated from Cambridge University and started working as a sculptor from 1984. The British artist was part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists). Quinn is famous for his "discussion-generating" artworks using both innovative materials, like blood, ice or excrement and scientific developments to make art. His work refers to traditional genres of art such as portraiture, landscape and still life however he uses new techniques and methods to represent it for example refrigeration.
Kha Nguyen xxx-xx-4797 Arch 1301 “Falling Water” and Wright’s Organic Architecture “Architecture is that great living creative spirit which from generation to generation, from age to age, proceeds, persists, creates, according to the nature of man, and his circumstances as they change” (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1939). That was what Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the most significant American architects of the Modern movement, said about real architecture. In fact, to Flank Lloyd Wright, architecture is not just about buildings, it is also about nourishing the lives of those sheltered within them. He called his architect is “organic” which states that architect is a part of the environment. One of his fascinating buildings which is an example of the organic architecture is Falling Water, a weekend home of Edgar J. Kaufmann built over a waterfall in Pennsylvania.
It is evident in works as Skyspaces, Roden Crater Project or Shaping the Sky. He shows us not only surprising properties of eye, but also brings us closer to the cosmos. Not without significance is an aesthetic of architecture that is a background for his works. It is very minimalistic, ascetic and symmetrical that highlights compatibility and unity of man and the nature (for example The Turrell Skyspace at Rice University). Obviously, James Turrell’s art is not a simply entertainment, but most of all a chance to see a world from a different perspective and to become aware of existing an another way of perception.
Today when the dynamics, designs, structures, materials, forms and functions in the world of architecture are changing so rapidly, this is one of the most exciting as well as challenging periods in the phase of architecture. The different branches or specializations in this field have made it possible for man to find solutions of various important issues through architecture. To be able to s succeed in such times at global levels, our skills have to be polished. Thus graduate study in a university of international nature and immense repute like University of California Berkeley becomes a requisite. What interests me the most about the Master of Landscape Architecture program at Berkeley is the multidisciplinary approach.