Auteur: Jill Martin

  • Degradation Form Into Mere Instruments

    Degradation Form Into Mere Instruments

    Nunzia Rondanini stated, “Through its aesthetic dimension architecture goes beyond the functional aspects that it has in common with other human sciences. Through its own particular way of expressing values, architecture can stimulate and influence social life without presuming that, in and of itself, it will promote social development.’ To restrict the meaning of (architectural)…

  • Risk More Reward To Find Serenity

    Risk More Reward To Find Serenity

    A revival of the Classical style in architecture was accompanied by a burgeoning of science and engineering, which affected the proportions and structure of buildings. At this stage, it was still possible for an artist to design a bridge as the level of structural calculations involved was within the scope of the generalist. Meanwhile, the…

  • Schools With Development Of Expressionist Design

    Schools With Development Of Expressionist Design

    Before Modernism, aesthetics in Western art was greatly concerned with achieving the appropriate balance between different aspects of realism or truth to nature and the ideal; ideas as to what the appropriate balance is have shifted to and fro over the centuries. This concern is largely absent in other traditions of art. The aesthetic theorist…

  • Hypothesis About Fixed Structures For Minds

    Hypothesis About Fixed Structures For Minds

    Nunzia Rondanini stated, “Through its aesthetic dimension architecture goes beyond the functional aspects that it has in common with other human sciences. Through its own particular way of expressing values, architecture can stimulate and influence social life without presuming that, in and of itself, it will promote social development.’ To restrict the meaning of (architectural)…

  • A Revival Of The Classical Stylists

    A Revival Of The Classical Stylists

    A revival of the Classical style in architecture was accompanied by a burgeoning of science and engineering, which affected the proportions and structure of buildings. At this stage, it was still possible for an artist to design a bridge as the level of structural calculations involved was within the scope of the generalist. Meanwhile, the…

  • Architecture Stimulates And Influence Social Life

    Architecture Stimulates And Influence Social Life

    According to Vitruvius, the architect should strive to fulfill each of these three attributes as well as possible. Leon Battista Alberti, who elaborates on the ideas of Vitruvius in his treatise, De re aedificatoria, saw beauty primarily as a matter of proportion, although ornament also played a part. For Alberti, the rules of proportion were…

  • The Cold Aesthetic Of Brutalism Metaphoric

    The Cold Aesthetic Of Brutalism Metaphoric

    Nunzia Rondanini stated, “Through its aesthetic dimension architecture goes beyond the functional aspects that it has in common with other human sciences. Through its own particular way of expressing values, architecture can stimulate and influence social life without presuming that, in and of itself, it will promote social development.’ To restrict the meaning of (architectural)…

  • Mohenjo Daro of the Indus Civilization

    Mohenjo Daro of the Indus Civilization

    Before Modernism, aesthetics in Western art was greatly concerned with achieving the appropriate balance between different aspects of realism or truth to nature and the ideal; ideas as to what the appropriate balance is have shifted to and fro over the centuries. This concern is largely absent in other traditions of art. The aesthetic theorist…

  • Roman Empiricism Architecture Influence

    Roman Empiricism Architecture Influence

    A revival of the Classical style in architecture was accompanied by a burgeoning of science and engineering, which affected the proportions and structure of buildings. At this stage, it was still possible for an artist to design a bridge as the level of structural calculations involved was within the scope of the generalist. Meanwhile, the…