The Misanthrope – Moliere The Masks We Wear Moral character types emerged during the latter stages of Greek literature, specifically in the new comedy of Menander; preceded by the creation of Theophrastus’ stock characters, which were based on observation of everyday life. First introduced to audiences in 1666, Moliere staged The Misanthrope in the upper-class salon of Celimene. Essentially, the salon is a microcosm of the royal court. In between duties at Louis XIV’s court, the elite townspeople
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Brutalism originated in the mid-1950s and was based on the work of modern architecture pioneer Le Corbusier. It refers to the buildings which having distinct sculptured form, bold geometries and material rigor - usually in rough or textured concrete. Le Corbusier purposed that Architecture ‘is to establish emotional relationships by means of raw materials’. Goldstein Hall as a brutalist buildings with an emphasis on structural expression and extreme material honesty invoked a matter of ‘harmonies’
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UNITE D’HABITATION By the late 1940s Le Corbusier was well established in the CIAM and promoted Modernist architecture for public housing. Unite d’habitation (1947-52) in Marseilles is a large single 12 storey block consisting of 337 apartments, shops, a hotel, a restaurant, a kindergarten, and a rooftop area for leisure and exercise. The Unite illustrates the neo-Platonic Modular system which he developed post 1945, creating careful proportions and bright, spacious apartments. It is comparable
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the Americas. The painting that has moved me so much and seems so different than anything I have seen before in its style and composition is by an artist name Claude Monet, and the name of the painting is “Sunrise”. This painting displays the port of Le Havre and is set in the morning. I have visited this place personally a week ago, and it is quite lovely. In the background, there are some ships set with their anchors cast into the water. Their silhouettes seem to disappear into the mist, however
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University of East London, School of Architecture Computing and Engineering Architecture Level One 2013/14 History and Theory, Technical and Professional Studies Module AR 1002 History and Theory Essay 1 Choose a building built before 1900 which you can visit or have visited, and on which you can find at least two relevant published accounts in books, journals or the Internet. Discuss what others say about the building, be critical and reflective and relate them to your own experience
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ALEX KITNICK “New Brutalism” remains a tricky term for the student of postwar art and architecture, both too specific and too general. On the one hand, it is associated with a small number of writings and projects carried out by a group of architects, artists, and critics in 1950s London. Alison and Peter Smithson first used the term to describe a residential project in Soho that was to be characterized by a “warehouse” aesthetic and unfinished surfaces, and, in a famous 1955 essay, Reyner Banham
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Resource: Ch. 6 of Social Policy and Social Programs The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) | The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) | Any housing that meets the requirements of the program, nit limited to units located in subsidized housing projects. | Manages 14 large family public housing locations throughout Los Angeles. | The demand for housing is so great that it often exceeds the resources available; being placed on a long waiting list for assistance
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centrale appare essere la funzione che l’opera assume per il suo autore, che di norma adopera uno pseudonimo o lavora nell’anonimato, con una valenza altamente specifica sia a livello affettivo sia a livello cognitivo ,di studio e di ricerca. I disegni e le parole sui muri hanno storicamente dimostrato il loro valore comunicativo. Quello del writer è un racconto continuo, senza fine, con o senza tema e un soggetto prestabilito; una storia da vedere, un’ allegoria da illustrare. Esso si genera nella
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los CIAM (Congresos Internacionales de Arquitectura Moderna). Ha sido el único arquitecto de la Segunda generación del Movimiento Moderno reconocido como "maestro", equiparándose así a los grandes maestros del Periodo heroico del Movimiento Moderno Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe y Gropius. En su honor se concede cada cinco años el premio Medalla Alvar Aalto. Pensamiento y método proyectual El propio Aalto teorizó sobre su método de proyecto en el artículo La trucha y el río (1947); en él escribió
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urban design and landscape architecture to furniture and objects. It also is defined as the manipulation of shapes, forms, space and light to change our environment. One of the most famous definitions of architecture was stated by French architect Le Corbuiser. "Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of forms under the light." (Vers une architecture, 1923) The number of definitions of architecture are countless, but in summary, architecture is the design of the shelters that
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