Strange and Fantastic Buildings Architecture
03/07/10
EMIEL
EMIEL
"The term Architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation. As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter. As a profession, architecture is the role of those persons or machines providing architectural services. As documentation, usually based on drawings, architecture defines the structure and/or behavior of a building or any other kind of system that is to be or has been constructed.
Among the philosophies that have influenced modern architects and their approach to building design are rationalism, empiricism, structuralism, poststructuralism, and phenomenology.
On the difference between the ideals of “architecture” and mere “construction”, the renowned 20th C. architect Le Corbusier wrote: “You employ stone, wood, and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces: that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture”.
Device to Root Out Evil (Vancouver, Canada)
Experience Music Project (Seattle, Washington, USA)
Forest Spiral Building (Darmstadt, Germany)
Container City (London, UK)
Blur Building (Yverdon-les-Bainz, Switzerland)
Gas Natural headquarters (Barcelona, Spain)
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source:Instant Shift