The book by Robert Venturi continues to be important in today’s complicated and conflicting world. Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, published 50 years ago and still in print…
Never underestimating the power of design is the main lesson that well-known architects have sought to impart to us over the years. Famous architects like Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and…
Situated in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Atlanta is renowned for its post-modern style of architecture. Little remains today of the Atlanta described in Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With The…
Amidst the ‘city within a city’ MGM Mirage City Center project, Polish – American architect Daniel Libeskind designed the shops at Crystals which is a retail and entertainment space that…
Alan Buchsbaum was a central figure during the mid-’60s to the mid-’80s in three successive design movements- super graphics, high-tech, and postmodernism. The architect is known for his unique, free-flowing,…
Anchorage Alaska, When you think about the northern lights, a snow paradise and unique wildlife, you think about the ‘Great Land ‘, Alaska. Known for its beautiful landscapes and majestic…
About the architect and his work Controversial with his design, unapologetic for his behavior, and living life as he deemed fit, diving in every shade and era of architecture and…
The Neoclassical movement had arisen with the advent of the ‘age of enlightenment’ in the 17th-18th centuries, where reason and science had been given precedence over faith and superstition. This…
Through the lens: Architecture as a co-star in dystopian cinema 1927 – 2012, Fenesan Oriana is a paper written in the year 2016 submitted in support of a course (History…
In reaction to restrictive ideals and simplistic, minimalistic forms of Modernism, Post Modernism was a movement that emerged in the 1960s, described first in a book called ‘Complexity and Contradiction…
The Abteiberg Museum, located in the heart of the historic German city Mönchengladbach. With a mastermind like Hans Hollein being behind the alluring post-modernist design of the contemporary art museum.…
Austrian architect and Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Hans Hollien designed multiple projects that greatly influenced the style of Modernist Viennese architecture that we are familiar with today. One of his…
