Residential complex “Robin hood gardens”, London, United Kingdom (1969-1972) Residential complex “Robin hood gardens” in London — another ambitious social project. To communicate with him the rainbow of hope and its authors are the architects Peter and Alison Smithson, officials, and residents themselves. The story of “Robin hood gardens” shows features of late modernism, in […]

Residential complex “Prut-Ago” got its name in honor of the hero of the Second world war, pilot Oliver Perrotta and a member of Congress, Missouri William Ago. As a designer was selected as a young and ambitious architectural office of Minoru Yamasaki. City officials hoped that construction of the complex will help to clear poor […]

What was wrong Le Corbusier and his followers is explained through the story of five controversial modernist projects. In the early XX century due to the rapid development of construction technologies, new principles of architectural design. Abandoning of traditional features and ornament, the architects focused on the tectonics in terms of functionality and form. It […]

May 5, 1923, in “continental-Savoy” perished an English aristocrat Carnarvon and Inexperienced Egyptologist who borrowed the excavations of Carter within the area of the leaders. Discussed the regrettable chance: the chunk of the following careless motion having a blade, after which body poisoning and demise and also the bug, triggered a genuine stress the elite. […]

Members of the Dutch group “Style” that included the architect Gerrit, Gerrit Rietveld, was convinced that “universal harmony” must be translated into abstract, shapes painted in the primary colors of the spectrum. Abstract compositions are transferred into a three-dimensional reality of the interior, inspired by Rietveld on the first sketches of furniture. Usually as an […]

Like Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Aalto and other architects-modernists created a modern design. In the beginning of XX century, there was design a new art discipline at the interface of applied and decorative art, mass production, and early modernism. New architectural doctrine rejected the decorative elements, ornaments and any redundancy required very careful attention […]

Theory morphism became very important to the work of Le Corbusier, which was inspired by the image of Orpheus, who served the Sun–Apollo. The opposition “darkness — light” for decades was one of the main themes in his works. Engineering, he counted all the possible dramatic effects of the movement of light during the day […]

Biology, philosophy, poetry, and other passions of architects in the late XIX — early XX century. “Enough… I want to construct natural bodies!” — wrote artist and architect El Lissitzky in 1924. In the late XIX — early XX century in search of inspiration, the architects considered the most unexpected subjects, including the field of new […]

Library of Congress The custom of decorating the Church calendar, carved in stone, existed from the first centuries of Christianity. Each sign of the zodiac corresponded to a specific month, and each month one or another type of agricultural work. Almost all calendar cycles began with January and zodiac signs of Aquarius, exactly corresponding to […]

The Cathedral is both picture developed by the Inventor of the encyclopedia and also the World, which includes the center Ages’ primary assumptions. Ancient individuals browse the Cathedral’s act is much like a guide: a picture informed him concerning the figures and also the Religious tale, concerning the pet and organic globe. Following Trent’s Authority […]