Architecture

[eyad]

Salam all people.
thread for the architects and who likes the artistic touches.

actually my first discussion is about Le-corbusier ( Charles-Edouard Jeanneret ).


The famous master architect and who is a leader of the modernism, and has created the five priciples of architecture.
His career spanned five decades, with iconic buildings constructed across central Europe, India, Russia, and one structure each in North and South America. He was also an urban planner, painter, sculptor, writer and modern furniture designer.
i like his famous chair called chaise longue.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...sierChaise.jpg


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P.S. : Does corbusier mean something ???
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Le Corbusier - Wikipédia

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OUR Master architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

(born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies) (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German architect.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, along with Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture. Mies, like many of his post war contemporaries, sought to establish a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as classical and gothic did for their own eras. He created an influential twentieth-century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity. His mature buildings made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass to define austere but elegant spaces. He developed the use of exposed steel structure and glass to enclose and define space, striving for an architecture with a minimal framework of structural order balanced against the implied freedom of open space. He called his buildings "skin and bones" architecture. He sought a rational approach that would guide the creative process of architectural design, and is known for his use of the aphorisms “less is more” and "God is in the details".



the famous Chicago's IBM Building, U.S.A.

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[Cheba_Mami]

its your profession, isnt it? its nice. Your created room (well, i assume you created it) looks good.

[eyad]

salam ya Cheba_Mami .
yeah, its my profession and really do like it.
and btw , thnx !!

[eyad]

Frank Lloyd Wright

When talking about Lloyd Wright, so we are to mention the masters of architecture such Le-Corbusier.
Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959), Master of the Organic Architecture, was one of the most prominent and influential architects of the first half of the 20th century. He not only developed a series of highly individual styles over his extraordinarily long architectural career (spanning the years 1887-1959), he influenced the whole course of American architecture and building. To this day he remains probably America's most famous architect.



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Books of Wright




his premiere works:
* George Barton House, Buffalo NY, 1903
* Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo NY, 1904
* William Heath House, Buffalo NY, 1905
and later, the Graycliff estate, Derby, NY 1926


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HERE. . . .

the most famous work of wright is Falling Water House - or the so called - Kaufmann house.







Wright practiced what is known as organic architecture, an architecture that evolves naturally out of the context, most importantly for him the relationship between the site and the building and the needs of the client. Houses in wooded regions, for instance, made heavy use of wood, desert houses had rambling floor plans and heavy use of stone, and houses in rocky areas such as Los Angeles were built mainly of cinder block. Wright's creations took his concern with organic architecture down to the smallest details. From his largest commercial commissions to the relatively modest Usonian houses, Wright conceived virtually every detail of both the external design and the internal fixtures, including furniture, carpets, windows, doors, tables and chairs, light fittings and decorative elements. He was one of the first architects to design and supply custom-made, purpose-built furniture and fittings that functioned as integrated parts of the whole design, and he often returned to earlier commissions to redesign internal fittings. His Prairie houses use themed, coordinated design elements (often based on plant forms) that are repeated in windows, carpets and other fittings. He made innovative use of new building materials such as precast concrete blocks, glass bricks and zinc cames (instead of the traditional lead) for his leadlight windows, and he famously used Pyrex glass tubing as a major element in the Johnson's Wax building. Wright was also one of the first architects to design and install custom-made electric light fittings, including some of the very first electric floor lamps, and his very early use of the then-novel spherical glass lampshade (a design previously not possible due to the physical restrictions of gas lighting).
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more info.........Frank Lloyd Wright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




Johnson Wax Factory in Racine, Wisconsin & the Guggenheim Museum in NewYork

Enjoy The Architecture

[Bent_Bladi]

That's a beautiful house... I'd like to go there (is that a hijabi I see on the balcony there )

[eyad]

this house had a nice story, in short, when wright(the architect) decided to design this building, he intended to make the river apart from the house.
or the house attached to the river!!
so he made that big cantilevered terrace -which no one has done such a thing before-!!!
the client did not know that the terrace is just suspended
and the contractor told him that its supported beneath, after finishing the house they revealed the idea of the cantilevered terrace and letting the water just continue falling!!
any ways if interested just C the full story of building this master piece:
Welcome to Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater