When the British Raj ended on the Indian subcontinent, Bangladeshi architect Muzharul Islam said, “Independence brings in the greatest opportunity for a nation to express its thoughts, talent and energy….…
“A war in which all or almost all of the significant nations around the globe participate.” While other global conflicts, such as the Seven Years’ War, the Cold War, and…
Influenced by the fashionable art movement, modern architecture is emerged by the modern architects at the turn of the 20th century and was a dominant style until roughly the mid-20th…
Herzog and de Meuron are among the world’s most respected architectural firms. The practice has, over the years, gained recognition for conjuring up original building solutions. One such design of…
The building design process is now emerging with technologies. New material and design ideas challenge the building construction and technology, making it easy by interacting and linking them together. Back…
London is England’s and the United Kingdom’s capital and largest city. It is located on the Thames River in southeast England. London, being one of the world’s major cities, has…
As much as they were used traditionally, pitched roofs lost their allure at the turn of the twentieth century with the advent of modernism. The clean straight lines that expressed…
Neue Nationalgalerie – Throughout history, the evolution of different styles of architecture has had an impact on the various socio-economic and cultural growth of the cities. These different styles of…
Postmodern art and architecture emerged in the United States in the 1970s as a reaction to conventional architectural forms. It arose as a reaction to traditional, classical styles, intending to make buildings dynamic…
“There were details like clothing, hairstyles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist—musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn. ……
The Ashcan School was an art movement prevalent in the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Although it is lesser known than some other movements of a…
Modernism evolved as an outcome of the industrial revolution in Europe and America and gained widespread critical acclaim in the 1900s. In Asia, the 1900s saw countries obtain freedom from…