Steven Holl

One of America’s most famous architects, Hall’s innovative design is a radical departure from the notion that buildings are boxes. While it is the architect’s destiny not to spoil the landscape, Hall’s architecture is characterised by an internal structure that blends in with the landscape and matches the purpose of the building. Hall’s architectural expression… Continue reading Steven Holl

Johannes Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer was a master of Baroque painting. (1632-1675) In his early 20s, he was influenced by Rembrandt’s pupils, Carel Fabritius and Caravaggio. (The procuress: 1656) However, from the late 20s onwards, the mastery of realism and the light pouring through the windows by the camera obscura became characteristic. (The Milkmaid: 1657). Six of Vermeer’s… Continue reading Johannes Vermeer

Asylum Chapel

Asylum Chapel is a unique Grade II listed venue steeped in London history. Built-in 1826, Asylum Chapel has played witness to London’s rich and troubled history, Asylum Chapel is now one of Peckham’s most-loved flexible spaces for weddings, events and photo and film shoots. Here, ‘asylum’ traditionally meant ‘sanctuary’ and was, in fact, a home… Continue reading Asylum Chapel

Ziggurat

Ziggurat was built in Sumerian-controlled areas from 3000 BC in places where Mesopotamian states such as Ur and Babylon flourished. According to relics left behind by the Sumerians and Akkadian people, the people of that time believed that Ziggurat was the dwelling place of the gods. *The “Tower of Babel” in Genesis 11 depicts Ziggurat… Continue reading Ziggurat

Mono-ha

The Mono-ha was a group of artists who worked with natural and artificial objects in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The aim was to let ‘things’ speak for themselves by allowing them to exist as much as possible in their works in their original state, in parallel. Therefore, rather than ‘creating’ something, the artists… Continue reading Mono-ha

Cuneiform

At the end of the 4th millennium BC, when people living in southern Mesopotamia (today’s southern Iraq) began carving cuneiform on clay tablets to produce documents relating to trade and other matters, humanity took its first steps towards the universal act of ‘writing’. Documents written in Sumerian are very diverse. They include inscriptions recording the… Continue reading Cuneiform

Berthold Lubetkin

Ernö Goldfinger lived for three years in Highpoint in London, which Berthold Lubetkin built in 1935 and 1938. This building is a complex apartment followed by Le Corbusier’s ‘Les 5 points d’une architecture Nouvelles. This building has common space such as a tennis court and swimming pool, tea room, etc.  As with Willow Road, there… Continue reading Berthold Lubetkin

Ernö Goldfinger

Wells Coates belonged to the MARS(Modern Architectural Research) Group and was associated with a number of radical architects who contributed to modernist architecture in Britain. One of these architects was Ernö Goldfinger.   His Willow Road differs from the modernist buildings of Wells Coates and his contemporaries in that it is Georgian rather than white-box… Continue reading Ernö Goldfinger

Wells Coates

Ben Nicholson was in Unit One, the Britsh Modern Artist Group. It consisted of painter, sculpture and architect. The name of two architects is Wells Coates and Colin Lucas. Wells Coates is famous for building Lawn Road Flats.   Lawn Road Flats is a flat that opened in 1934, the first modern flats and one… Continue reading Wells Coates

OVER WROUGHT FORGE

This store is one of the Britannia enterprise centres we visited during class in the hastings. The owner makes handcraft metal for mainly homes gardens.  This store’s advantages are  No inventory risk due to made-to-order production  The flexibility of design is not possible in a factory  Higher unit price per item  On the other hand,… Continue reading OVER WROUGHT FORGE