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Abstract Contemporary practice has proven that design quality is not sufficient for success. Throughout architecture’s history, there has existed the naive perception that best designs came from artists whose practice remained untouched by the...
In this discussion, alternate housing refers to homes that are constructed differently from typical modern dwellings found in standard subdivisions across the country. Some dwellings, though, due to local building materials and climates, can...
House “type” denotes the number and arrangement of a dwelling’s living levels. The basic types of houses are the single-story ranch, the Cape Cod or one and one-half-story, the two-story, the split foyer, and...
Style is a broad concern that will ultimately affect your choice of house. It most commonly indicates the decorative features of the exterior and to some degree the interior. An overview of the various...
Creating functional kitchen storage and counter workspaces has been the focus of educators and designers for decades. As early as 1869, Catherine Beecher and her sister, Harriett Beecher Stowe, were making recommendations for homemaking,...
Early in his career Mies had been pulled in another direction entirely. In the early 1920s he shared an office with Hugo Häring, famous for the bulgy organic farm buildings at Gut Garkau, and...
Waking up to the variety and complexity of the past was one of the key developments of the nineteenth century, a time of the discovery and cataloguing of forgotten civilizations and the scholarly recovery...
In the nineteenth century the work of contemporary designers recapitulated in a disorderly way the entire history of architecture. This phenomenon, called ‘historicism’, is often seen as an uncreative dead end, the resort of...
It seems fitting that the origins of the word baroque are in dispute. It isn’t entirely at home in any European language and has been derived from widely different sources: a philosophical term for...
There’s a version of the progress of art, and of culture in general, modelled on the life of creatures, which begins in childish clumsiness and goes through phases of youthful vigour, followed by healthy...