Hollyhock House Analysis

His understanding of nature profoundly differs from our own. Wright felt this strong connection to nature throughout his life, and Fallingwater presented him with a unique opportunity to showcase it unlike his previous houses. Designed for his elderly mother, Robert Venturi used the house – The Vanna Venturi - as a canvas to demonstrate some of the “complexities and contradictions” in modern architecture. With the Vanna Venturi house, his desire to challenge modern orthodoxy is apparent in the home’s façade, which acts as a sort of billboard for a house, with its pitched roofline and functionless arch – both clear departures from modernist principles.

Often a structure is designed in a way that will prove durability against climate and environmental activity. For example, Thomas Coram’s painting entitled, “View of Mulberry House and Street” (Fig. 15-6) depicts the houses of the African American slaves with very high, pointed roofs. This specific home design was used by African American slaves in order to keep their houses cooler at floor level. In this case, the function of the high pointed roof in each house was to allow for the warmer air to rise and keep the cooler air down. Another example is that of the Mesa Verde “Spruce Tree House” (Fig. 15-7) which depicts cliff side caves, built as means for stable homes by The Anasazi.

In Katherine G. Bristol 's “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth”, Bristol attempts to debunk the myth that has been associated with the failure and demolition of a housing project from 1954 to 1976 in St. Louis called Pruitt-Igoe. After carefully presenting and supporting her reasons for why she believes the failure of this project was due to its design rather than structural aspect, I have come to understand and overall agree with Katherine Bristol 's claim that design of Pruitt-Igoe was the primary reason for the demolition and overall removal of the housing project. Bristol manages to successfully support her statement by offering political, social, economic, and design issues that played a crucial role in the downwards spiral of Pruitt-Igoe. Being part of a postwar re-development plan, the design for this housing project encountered social and economic issues right from the start. As Bristol mentions, initial plans for Pruitt-Igoe consisted of a high-rise, mid-rise, and walk-up structure, but due to its budget constraints, its design was constantly undergoing changes which eventually led to its identical eleven-story final proposal.

The selected symbol of trees and the quotes related to it are relevant in the entirety of The House on Mango Street since Esperanza repeatedly shows her respect and admiration of trees throughout the book. In “Meme Ortiz”, she mentions how in Meme’s backyard a towering tree is the most memorable sight there. She mentions how the tree has very big branches, the many squirrels living on it, and how it has bloomed even more than the trees in front of her house. Esperanza states how Meme’s tree most likely started as elms and have become this mighty tree, making Esperanza believe she will be like those elms and flourish in her own growth. Furthermore, in “Four Skinny Trees”, she describes four trees in front of her house that are out of place and how they seem they should not be there. Esperanza empathizes with them and says she too is not supposed to be on Mango Street and should have left. In hindsight, Esperanza’s connection with trees keeps them relevant in novella.

When having these large houses they were hosting big parties with famous musicians and bands. The life these people were living was truly the luxury life and the American

The iconic Seagram Building stands 515 feet tall with 38 stories and was completed in 1958. Since its construction, it has remained one of the finest examples of the functionalist aesthetic and corporate modernism. Designed by German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the style of the Seagram Building has had a pivotal influence on American architecture. The style argued that the functional utility of the building’s structural elements when made visible, could supercede the formal decorative; and more easily convey its beauty to a lay public than any system of applied ornamentation.

Despite some differences between Minnie Foster from Trifles by Susan Glaspell and Ruth from Still Stands the House by Gwen Pharis Ringwood, they have many similarities. Although their relationships with their respective spouses are in stark contrast, they do share qualities like their seemingly inadequate femininity and lonesome lives.

Esperanza’s house on Mango Street is not the house she dreamed on when she lived on Loomis Street, not the kind of house her parent’s talked about, not the house she wanted. Her house on Mango Street is a small, red house with even smaller stairs leading to the door. The brick are falling out of place and to get inside, one must shove the door, swollen like Esperanza’s feet in later vignettes, open. Once inside, where you are never very far from someone else, there are small hallway stairs that lead to the only one shared bedroom and bathroom. This house is just, “For the time being,”[5] Esperanza claims, for this is nothing like the house she longs for. Esperanza does not like her current living conditions, saying she wants, “A real house. One I can point to. But this isn’t

Though this may seem as a simple objective, two main limitations stand in the way of achieving it. The first is the limited understanding of the human attachment/inclination towards nature. In spite of the growing body of research (Appleton, 1975; Kellert, 2005a; Heerwagen, 2005; Biederman & Vessel, 2006), still it is not clear why certain natural forms and settings arouse positive feelings in human beings. The second limitation is the difficulty of translating this limited -but growing- knowledge in architectural terms; form, form making principles, form language, structural systems…etc. (Alexander, 2001-2005; Salingaros & Bruce, 1999; Kellert,

“And they all lived together in a little crooked house,” Sophia, the granddaughter of the Aristide Leonides, said quietly. This statement is very enigmatic and mysterious. The word ‘crooked’ displays the dark mood of the novel and foreshadows the ominous incident that will happen in that ‘crooked’ house. The book Crooked House by Agatha Christie illustrates the murder of Aristide Leonides, the head of the Leonides family. He was found to be dead due to the overdose of the eserine, which is a drug used in Alzheimer disease. In the crooked house, everyone can be a murderer; everyone has their own motives to commit a murder. During the investigation, every one of the family members seemed to be protective for each other; however, they all slightly wished the murderer to be the right person.

The four tree houses are made from local wood and are open to the air. Their simple square shape allows students to focus on learning, while the fresh allows them to connect with nature and be outside, even when they are in the classroom. The building on the island is even more minimalistic. It looks more like a cabana than classroom, and is completely open to the air. The open sides allow students to see the ocean as they learn about different aspects of it, and allows them to easily transition from the classroom to the ocean.

For instance , the images such as “ decayed trees “ also reveals that the house is located far away from urban which is portrayed as “

Epoka University Faculty of Architecture and Engineering Department of Architecture ARCH IV ARCH418 PhD. Ernest Shtepani Shasivar Rada ID:02021120 Delirious New York Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan Rem Koolhaas Our role is not to retreat back to the catacombs, but to became more human in skyscraper Manhattan is the theatre for the terminal stage of western civilization... A mountain range of evidence without manifesto.

Some of these theoretical features are applicable to the Chrysler Building while others are contradicted by it. The use of ornamentation on the Chrysler Building - such as the gargoyles and eagles depicted as part of the portrayal of the Machine Age - opposes Greenhalgh’s theoretical feature of truth and

Architecture has the ability to remark and reflect any region, give a feeling and a sense of a place, and present thoughts and creativity. Across the world, especially in the United States, there are many cities that are distinguished by its architecture and unique styles: The skyline of New York City is defined by it’s skyscrapers; San Francisco’s mixture of Victorian and modern colored houses; New Orleans’ iconic Creole townhouses; and Miami’s modernist architecture. Los Angeles, San Diego and some of the cities in the same region are no different from the previous appreciable cities all around America. These cities are located in the state of California which is on the West Coast. They share some significant architectural characteristics