Many older homes in cities today have their roots in the Arts and Crafts movement. With their squared, low-lying layouts and sturdy construction, these homes are often easy to spot, but generally not as widely recognized or studied as Victorian homes from the same era – they simply remain unclassified or incorrectly identified as ranchers. As years progress, however, the homes, properly known as “Craftsman” buildings, are outlasting most Victorian buildings, and finding more recognition among preservationists and historic home buyers who want to ask for them by name.
In some ways it’s remarkable that Craftsman-style homes were so attractive, given the round-about way they were conceived. Rather than emerging simply as a new architectural form, Craftsman homes developed as part of the Arts and Crafts movement, which in many ways was a reaction against the over-decorated and fragile aesthetics of the Victorian era, as well as the lack of personal touch in many modern-era buildings. Given those prerequisites, one might have expected an unfocussed, impressionistic style to emerge, rather than the refined, often symmetrical building shapes for which Craftsman style homes are known. These homes can generally be identified by their front entrances featuring a large raised porch with columns on either side, a central door, and a single second story window in the second floor gable. Roofs in this style are generally hipped, with overhanging eaves on all four sides. Other common Craftsman features include extensive stonework, rough-hewn wood, and stucco exteriors.
The popularization of Craftsman homes is largely credited to designer Gustav Stickley, a turn of the century architect who often featured these homes in his magazine, The Craftsman. Stickley famously referred to Craftsman style as “a house reduced to its simplest form,” wrote lengthy reviews on home and furniture originals by designers Harvey Ellis, the Greene Brothers, and others. Large numbers of Craftsman homes began appearing in San Diego in the early 20th century, which eventually led to the term “California Bungalow” for these types of homes.
Craftsman-style homes worked as well for families and middle class as they did for designers and artistic activists. One of the most significant advances made by these homes was the way they re-aligned the kitchen area with the rest of the main floor – instead of having a segregated kitchen with a formal dining room, Craftsman homes often had a built-in “breakfast nook” so that families could eat closer to the kitchen, which then became the center of activity on the upper floor.
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the term for that is PYCNOSTYCE.
This is pure ego at work. There is nothing real here. There is already kinetic and ddynamic architecture – cars, trains and planes etc.
The only time they zoom in on detail is on the pod attached to a central core – old idea – Archigram 1965. It’s great to have moving elements on a building for performance – shading and energy harvesting. This is energy wasting for no reason but the architect? to get published. Great architecture should not have to move. This is just ego moving a mouse.
wow dynamic archetecture….for some reason though its not my cup of tea…..excuse my spelling……..architechture to me is how thinkgs flow or fit together. it should not be about how things move or even about how things ironically copy others work without the given credit…it should also be about your own personal stylings, also have a specified use..well sometimes….its a lot of different things, but mainly imagination and creation, that makes architecture and the world an amazng place.
Scroll work, scroll shell, c-scroll. (That tat's cool)
Try DOLLAR SCROLL!
wait a minute I thought this was supposed to be apartments for rich people, not an amusement park ride that has to have the vomit hosed out every half hour. the building cant possibly be wiggling about looking cool and all like that, this is deceptive advertising.
we must build these kind of bulidings otherwise we could be bored to death.
The back span of the cantilevered joist (into the building) must be at least twice the cantilevered distance, but a 3:1 ratio is preferred.
If you think about it –
These are structures that are very solid and hard, usually stone. That's powerful.
Also, they're supporting some of the heaviest parts of buildings and structures, which is powerful. I hope this helps.
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Your question is difficult, the architecture in Ancient period.
The Greek columns and Roman columns are true both as both each other Art style between the Greek and Roman is very difficult to separate.
This period had three oder columns: Corinthien oder; Ionic oder; Doric oder. In there, Doric columns seem most slender. Look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_order
Ego? This is reality!!!! Moscow and Dubai are building one each!!!
Actually I already have the answer to my stupid question! Since my comments were usually censored, let me try again! My answer: In order not to repeat the 9/11 tragedy—–DO NOT build single core high-rises any more!—my design is to build sky-bridges connecting multi-towers!—dancewu(dot)net
Here is a diagram of the Doric/Ionic/Corinthian columns (and the parts of a column!): http://www.utexas.edu/courses/introtogreece/lect11/a%20architecstyles0002020002.jpg
Hopefully that at least starts to help, I will try to find more information later.
I do know that the architecture was meant to represent perfection, or at least striving toward it. Columns are slightly convex so that, to an observer on the ground, they appear perfectly straight. Rectangles are used frequently, and the so-called "golden triangle" is used repeatedly in both art and architecture. The carvings do often represent mythology, or at least mythical figures.
What city do you want a plan of? Athens?
These are the city plans I could find, not sure of how good they are for what you want:
http://socrates.clarke.edu/athens.gif
http://www.sikyon.com/athens/Monuments/athens_recns_eg.html
Hopefully those are at least somewhat helpful!
cool building, but use of over dramatic music ftw? anyone know what music is that?
I do not think so. Delicate marble columns of Alhambra Palace as the rest of it are a master peace of islamic architecture.
"The columns supporting the roof and gallery are irregularly placed …. etc" is said at http://books.google.com/books?id=-icoAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA689&lpg=RA1-PA689&dq=The+columns+supporting+the+roof+and+gallery+are+irregularly+placed&source=web&ots=uxmQl1RwFN&sig=ZYAOjWx6nKeh48BuPocprCd4dTw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result
Yeah, use concrete. And an architect isn't going to know squat about this subject.
georgewu5, shut up.
Hi! Here's a bunch of information that will help:
http://www.miraclerosarymission.org/bernini.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonic_column
http://www.saintpetersbasilica.org/Docs/SPV/Bernini-at-StPeter%27s-1.htm#Baldacchino
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/marder-bernini.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=aSV_y8aSbycC&pg=PA573&lpg=PA573&dq=columns+Bernini&source=bl&ots=-uhz7WljJc&sig=iWsy0cLMXJSGm7MbSya23oKxVFc&hl=en&ei=UL4SSt7xAdLemQedtozuAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9
http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMELIBR/BERBALD.TXT
http://books.google.com/books?id=YOfQOpx0UvsC&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=columns+Bernini&source=bl&ots=jRNanHvcPv&sig=bUNJiNAGSyAFInwFTvFdN93j6rA&hl=en&ei=Cb8SSqrkKpGCmQfnkJHvAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9
This is a modern composite version of the capital of a Corinthian column. These means that a modern designer brought together a mixture of elements – such as the acanthus leaf decoration, the oval shaped detail known as egg and dart, the swag of leaves which is derived from Roman triumphal arches – all having their original in Greek and Roman models. http://www.archcolumns.com/products/columncapitals.htm#Roman_Corinthian_Column_Capital
What about an amphitheatre?
Your kidding right? All the effort you just put forth by typing that whole bit could have been used to research it. Actually they answers are pretty easy. Take time to look on wikipedia or google. Where will you get if you always expect someone else to do your work for you? Not far I'd wager. Put some more effort into. Possibly, get a sibling or parent to help give suggestions to where you can find the answers.
Yeah, that was what I was initially saying as well. It’s got a factor of risk associated with it because of the stress that such contortion would generate on the core of the structure. Not to mention that the structure would be entirely dependent on the core for stability. There is only one load bearing structure here – the hollow cylindrical core which will also undoubtedly carry the stairs and elevator(s). That’s a lot of weight for such a structure. Essentially, these are all cantilevers.
You can find a lot of construction detail on sites associated with the "9/11 Truth Movement." You see the 9/11 Commission report stated that there was no internal steel support columns, but if you check the truther's site, you will see pictures of the twin tower construction with 38 steel support columns. If the truther's are right, then the 9/11 Commission progressive collapse theory is all wet. They've agreed that progressive collapse is impossible, but they don't have a plausible second explanation.
The PBS special is not reliable. It ignores the fact that the steel support in the center would have protruded. The steel support structure appears to have been undermined and cut. In other words, the construction of the towers suggests that the destruction was a planned demolition.
The core was not hollow, despite what the previous administration wants you to believe.
hope this helps.
http://www.ancient-greece.org/architecture.html
There were three types, which the Romans copied from the Greeks. They were
Doric, Corinthian and Ionic
Doric was the oldest and simplest of the three main orders of classical Greek architecture, characterized by heavy fluted columns with plain, saucer-shaped capitals and no base.
Ionic was characterized by two opposed volutes in the capital. (See examples of each column in the link below.)
Corinthian was the most ornate of the three main orders of classical Greek architecture, characterized by a slender fluted column having an ornate bell-shaped capital decorated with acanthus leaves.
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I've read the first answer over, and am now prepared to say, that my Ancient Times columns were up to the Decline Of The Empire, circa 500 A.D. to 1000 A.D. and Answerer Ones Tuscan columns were made in the 16th century. So we are are both right in different time periods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuscan_order
Thanks, answerer number one! I learn a lot here! (Though I am a bit confused now. The old, simple beliefs are better.) Giotto!