2012 Doomsday
There is a big question mark in my brain after watching it.
So soon?
It is undeniable that human being are pushing ourselves toward an end.
However, why on this day?
13 is the unlucky number for western people, why not doomsday 2013?
The documentation is good in giving us some reminder about what is going on with this earth, however, i do not believe that the doomsday would come so easily.
It would absolutely have no chance to happen if all the human being are awake, and started to realize what to do that can save our planet, and what not to do in order to save our planet from the doomsday.
In architecture, doomsday might happen when the earth if full of buildings, on the sky, on the land, and even on, beneath the sea. Moreover, so far there had been no complete green architecture had been successfully produced yet. What the so call 'green architecture' just slowed down and minimize the damage we've done.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Assignment 3AB
Architecture of ancient Greece
Architecture was extinct in Greece from the end of the Mycenaean period (about 1200 BC) to the 7th century BC, when plebian life and prosperity recovered to a point where public building could be undertaken. But since many Greek buildings in the colonization period (8th - 6th century BC), were made of wood or mud-brick or clay, nothing remains of them except for a few ground-plans, and almost no written sources on early architecture or descriptions of these embryonic buildings exist.
Common materials of Greek architecture were wood, used for supports and roof beams; plaster, used for sinks and bathtubs; unbaked brick, used for walls, especially for private homes; limestone and marble, used for columns, walls, and upper portions of temples and public buildings; terracotta, used for roof tiles and ornaments; and metals, especially bronze, used for decorative details. Architects of the Archaic and Classical periods used these building materials to construct five simple types of buildings: religious, civic, domestic, funerary, or recreational.
Modern Architecture
Modern architecture is a set of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of ornament. The first variants were conceived early in the 20th century. Modern architecture was adopted by many influential architects and architectural educators, however very few "Modern buildings" were built in the first half of the century. It gained popularity after the Second World War and became the dominant architectural style for institutional and corporate buildings for three decades.
The Greek architects perfected and refined the use of columns, primarily in temples.
There are three types of column styles based on the three main Greek Orders of architecture: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.
These styles of column design and architecture were adapted by the Romans, and serve as the basis of everything known as Classical architecture today. The Greeks having the first true form of democracy which america would later adopt has a true influence on Americas Capital buildings. For example the White House and Capital Building have columns on the front, and Greek was known from their columns on there temples.
But the question is, what is the true identity of the America's architecture?
The europe architecture were widespreaded to the whole world, with their conquer. As time goes by, their architecture style had taken over, or had mixed up with the local's identity.
One day at the future, there will be no longer any differences between any two building from worlds apart. Their architecture style were all mixed up, you can see a lot of styles in a single building.
This is another way of conquer the world, by having their own style of architecture all over the world.
Architecture was extinct in Greece from the end of the Mycenaean period (about 1200 BC) to the 7th century BC, when plebian life and prosperity recovered to a point where public building could be undertaken. But since many Greek buildings in the colonization period (8th - 6th century BC), were made of wood or mud-brick or clay, nothing remains of them except for a few ground-plans, and almost no written sources on early architecture or descriptions of these embryonic buildings exist.
Common materials of Greek architecture were wood, used for supports and roof beams; plaster, used for sinks and bathtubs; unbaked brick, used for walls, especially for private homes; limestone and marble, used for columns, walls, and upper portions of temples and public buildings; terracotta, used for roof tiles and ornaments; and metals, especially bronze, used for decorative details. Architects of the Archaic and Classical periods used these building materials to construct five simple types of buildings: religious, civic, domestic, funerary, or recreational.
Modern Architecture
Modern architecture is a set of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of ornament. The first variants were conceived early in the 20th century. Modern architecture was adopted by many influential architects and architectural educators, however very few "Modern buildings" were built in the first half of the century. It gained popularity after the Second World War and became the dominant architectural style for institutional and corporate buildings for three decades.
The Greek architects perfected and refined the use of columns, primarily in temples.
There are three types of column styles based on the three main Greek Orders of architecture: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.
These styles of column design and architecture were adapted by the Romans, and serve as the basis of everything known as Classical architecture today. The Greeks having the first true form of democracy which america would later adopt has a true influence on Americas Capital buildings. For example the White House and Capital Building have columns on the front, and Greek was known from their columns on there temples.
But the question is, what is the true identity of the America's architecture?
The europe architecture were widespreaded to the whole world, with their conquer. As time goes by, their architecture style had taken over, or had mixed up with the local's identity.
One day at the future, there will be no longer any differences between any two building from worlds apart. Their architecture style were all mixed up, you can see a lot of styles in a single building.
This is another way of conquer the world, by having their own style of architecture all over the world.
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