Architecture discussion

[grovestreet]

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here are some architectural humors i found on the net. hehe

enjoy.

ARCHITECTURAL TERMS

Sense of Entry
The front door is big and far away.

Human Scale
Less than 400 feet tall.

Skewed Grid
The design looked too boring with a regular grid.

Pedestrian-Oriented
Doesn’t have enough parking.

Contextual
Is surrounded by a lot of other buildings the architect couldn’t tear down.

Theoretical
Nobody in their right mind would ever consider building the crazy thing.

Signature Building
You can’t afford it.

Less Is More
The designer ran out of ideas. Cheap Skate.

Classically Proportioned
Traced out of a book of Greek architecture.

Postmodern
Traced out of a book of Roman architecture.

International Style
No country will take responsibility for it.

Deconstructivist
The backhoe ran into it during construction—and they liked it.

Seismically Designed High Rise
In an earthquake, the structure will not collapse, but will drop all of its glass and stone panels into the street turning pedestrians into a stew-like mush of pureed flesh.

Jury
Firing squad.

Design Review Board
Failed architecture majors.

[apil_ko_beh]

akong husband..haha..way makalabaw!

mam, mohimo na imo husband ug mga plano sa balay? pls pm me be. i'm looking for one.

[jnice gwapa]

There are lots of architects who's great, and its also great to be one.

[grovestreet]

what made you took up architecture?

why architecture?

[jnice gwapa]

Architecture is very challenging!
It is an idea driven discipline........
You design and construct buildings!

[HoundedbyHeaven]

One of my favorite architects is Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, commonly known as Albert Speer. He was an architect, author and, for part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War, sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich".

Speer was Hitler's chief architect before becoming his Minister for Armaments during World War II. He reformed Germany's war production to the extent that it continued to increase despite massive and devastating Allied bombing. After the war, he was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for his role in the Third Reich. As "the Nazi who said sorry", he was the only senior Nazi figure to admit guilt and express remorse, many referred to him as the "Good Nazi" and a book on his life was written with that title. Following his release in 1966, he became an author, writing two bestselling autobiographical works, and a third about the Third Reich. His two autobiographical works, Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: the Secret Diaries detailed his often close personal relationship with Adolf Hitler, and have provided readers and historians with an unequaled personal view inside the workings of the Third Reich. Speer died in 1981, in London, England.

Click here to see a tribute to Speers's architecture

Shalom.

P.S. I'm an architect by heart, hehehe.

[DEMONOCIETY]

what made you took up architecture?

why architecture?

y? bec. I have a talent and I luv making drawings this is the 1st part of my hobby.


sad wa lang nako tiwasa

[necrotic freak]

what made you took up architecture?

why architecture?

because i have the talent to draw. since then, its my childhood ambition.. unfortunately i cant practice it legally but illegally.

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Frank Gehry

Guggenheim Museum. Bilbao, Spain



MIT Stata Center. Cambridge, Massachusetts



Dancing House. Prague

[grovestreet]

i don't know why, but i really find gehry's buildings hideous, but that's just me. Maybe because
i prefer buildings that incorporate sullivan's principle "form follows function".
i'm not really into architectural masturbation like frank gehry... but hey, everyone have different tastes.
Gehry's style is labeled as deconstructivism by arki critics.

here are previews of tadao ando's work




richard meier