The cubist canvas was the locus where the painter simultaneously presented several aspects gathered successively with the purpose of suggesting a higher reality. —Marta Braun The solitaireOccurring during 1909–11 and claiming to be a realist movement, Cubism came as the mother of all the radical art movements which coincided with the transformation taking place on the world stage at the turn of the twentieth...

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Design rationale is a term used to focus on the underlying reasoning behind a design intention.It concerns the basic structure of thought that brought the design into being. Sometimes referred to as ‘intellectual underpinning’, the design rationale aims to distinguish between the intuitive and the cerebral, and to represent the bedrock on which concepts are structured. However, it must be added that while...

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"Natural landscapes may exhibit the beauty of rhyme and contrast simply in their static structure. But people who live in the landscape —as men live in cities—the dynamic structure, the diachronic rhymes, add a new dimension to aesthetic pleasure. They see the same landscape in a state of flux. But, through every change, the landscape retains its identity and each transformation gives them...

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Keith_Albarn,_Pattern_and_Belief_at_The_Minories_Galleries,_Installation_view_02 A diagram is a drawing that, stripped of all superfluous and distracting data, shows the general scheme or outline of an idea or object and its parts.It is a reductive graphic representation of the course or results of an action or process. Diagrams are enlisted at the formative moments of design to chart the potential relationship between concept and reality. In functioning as...

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Disjunction is a term associated with the writings of Bernard Tschumi and his call for a radically new architectural approach.He believes that, when used as a theoretical tool for making architecture, disjunction, and its bedfellow ‘disruption’, are entirely relevant to the current and fragmented breakdown of a Western post-modern culture. Bernard Tschumi Parc de la Villette, Paris, France (Exterior perspectives, sketch) 1983Disjunction questions...

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   “True equilibrium is expressed by the straight line,” wrote Piet Mondrian. For him and his modernist allies, that line was inevitably black. Architects like Rietveld, and later the Eameses, gave architectural expression to arrangements of brightly colored planes organized by black.In the same way, today’s architects and designers use black as an essential structural element. Aloof from the vagaries of fashion and trendiness, black...

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   The image of classical architecture as pristine white marble temples set against the blue sky is largely a figment of the twentieth-century imagination.  The great Greek and Roman sites were, in their day, effusively polychromous—blue friezes, red capitals, statuary as tarted up as any in Las Vegas. The multicolored architecture of the Renaissance is epitomized by the white, green and red scheme of...

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Photo by James Woodward. © James Woodward, available from Artifice ImagesArchitect: Jørn Utzon Location : Copenhagen, DenmarkDate:1976Building Type :churchConstruction System: corrugated sidingClimate: cold temperateContext: suburbanStyle: ModernNotes:"Church at Bagsværd". Dramatic exterior/interior distinction: Crisp simple industrialesque exterior, daylighting through soft curving section.In plan, the chapel of the Church at Bagsværd is the central space in a rectangular collection of rooms and courtyards, which are framed by perimeter aisles used for circulation...

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 Architect: Le CorbusierLocation : Ronchamp, France  Date:1955Building Type :churchConstruction System:reinforced concreteClimate: temperateContext: rural, mountainsStyle:Expressionist ModernNotes:Soft-form composition, deep windows with colored glass (wall thickness 4' to 12')Photo By Gili Merin @Archdaily Book reference : Manual of Sections The section of Le Corbusier’s well-known pilgrimage chapels reveals material and structural paradoxes. Both the south wall and the roof appear to be massive but are hollow. The ceiling, over...

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