LE CORBUSIER AND ‘TAMING TECHNOLOGY’ LE CORBUSIER’S MACHINES FOR LIVING Unlike most architects, Le Corbusier did not simple accept the new technological advancements. He ‘tamed’ technology with architectural techniques entrenched in tradition so it becomes elegant in form and function. The concept of objet-type also signals the fact that a functionally determined object can be […]
RESPECTING VICTORIAN DESIGN. Despite the fusty, excessive, old, impractical, self-indulgent, snobbish, aloof architecture, the embellished mania of Victorian Architecture, I must admit – I love it. Soft spot for the 19th century architectural replicas of Arthur, Camelot, and Knights marvels. The synthesis of architecture and technology_ Case Study: Crystal Palace. Designed by Joseph Paxton (renowned […]
Aldo Rossi’s Monument of the Resistance in Cuneo, 1962 (unbuilt). Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: theory, drawing, architecture and product design. Aldo Rossi (1931-1997), was the first Italian to receive the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1990. His inspirations were derived from the world around him, since he […]
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