scholarly journals Tomás Saraceno’s Art Work “In Orbit” (2013) against the Backdrop of Space Architecture

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Eva Wattolik
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Architectural Analysis ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Technical Specifications ◽  
Space Architecture

When discussing the correlation between technological progress and the development of modern architecture, case studies from the fine arts can be instructive. This article undertakes a close architectural analysis of Tomás Saraceno’s walkable art installation “In Orbit” (2013) by releasing previously unpublished technical specifications. A brief history of envisioned and constructed space architecture of the last hundred years—which can be divided into three phases—serves to locate the installation within the currents of predictive utopia, realized architecture and technological development. It becomes clear that Saraceno not only takes up pre-existing architectural techniques, but also develops them further.

scholarly journals The notion of limit in architectural theory. Two case studies in Portugal

ZARCH ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 58-69
Author(s):  
Tiago Lopes Dias ◽  
Rui Jorge Garcia Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
Founding Principle ◽  
The Right ◽  
Transition Space ◽  
The City

Modern Portuguese architecture has been seen as the result of an eminently empirical and intuitive practice, dissociated from any effort of theoretical structuring. This paper intends to contradict that predominant view, presenting the notion of spatial limit as a subject that earned particular consideration from a younger, more critical and intellectually demanding generation of architects. Firstly, it introduces two notions directly related to limit - ‘extensions of the dwelling’ and ‘transition-space’ - presented in theses by Nuno Portas (b. 1934) and Pedro Vieira de Almeida (1933-2011) respectively, two highly innovative works in the academic panorama of early 1960s. Next, it focuses on the fundamental role each of the notions taken in investigative works that are parallel in time but substantially different. The first, Habitação evolutiva, is a typological study reflecting the spirit of its time by claiming the ‘right to the city’ as the founding principle of a model critical of CIAM urbanism. The second is an essay stemming from a critical reflexion on the work of an eclectic architect that eludes categorization (Raul Lino, 1879-1974) which sheds light on the need for a critical approach to the history of modern architecture.

INFLUENCE OF THE SOVIET VANGUARD OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-24
Author(s):  
T. V KARAKOVA ◽  
E. V RYZhIKOVA
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
Sufficient Detail ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
Aesthetic Consciousness ◽  
History Of ◽  
Transition Stages ◽  
Philosophical Understanding

Vanguard are typical for all the transition stages in the history of art culture, certain types of art. In the 20th century. notion of the avant-garde has become the term to refer to a powerful phenomenon of artistic culture that has enveloped her significant events, which have much in common. Vanguard is the reaction of the artistic and aesthetic consciousness on a global, not yet encountered in the history of mankind change in cultural and civilizational process caused by scientific and technological progress (STP) of the last century. The nature and importance to humanity of this process in culture have not yet received adequate scientific and philosophical understanding, but with sufficient detail expressed in the artistic culture in the phenomenon of the avant-garde, modernism, postmodernism.

scholarly journals An interview with Jean Gottmann on urban geography

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (420/421) ◽  
pp. 140-146
Author(s):  
Miloš Perović ◽  
Jean Gottmann
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Royal Institute ◽  
New York University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
History Of

The author is Professor of History of Modern Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, received his M.Sc in architecture and town-planning in Belgrade and at the Athens Center of Ekistics, Athens, Greece, and his Ph. D at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade. He is the author of many books including Computer Atlas of Belgrade (Belgrade, 1976, second edition in Serbian and English as Research into the Urban Structure of Belgrade, Belgrade, 2002), Lessons of the Past (Belgrade, 1985), four volumes on the history of modern architecture in the world 1750 to present, Serbian 20th Century Architecture: From Historicisim to Second Modernism (Belgrade, 2003), and numerous articles published in scientific and professional journals. He has had one-man exhibitions of his experimental town-planning projects in Ljubljana (1977), Zagreb(1978), Belgrade (1978), Paris (1981), Dublin (1981), and at the Gallery of the Royal Institute of British Architects in London (1986). He has lectured at New York University, the Institute of Fine Arts (New York), Princeton University, Columbia University (New York), Ohio State University (Columbus), Athens Center of Ekistics, University of Cambridge (UK), and the Royal Institute of British Architects. The text that follows was one of several interviews of Dr Perovió with selected participants in the Delos Symposia (international meetings on boardship organized by the Athens Center of Ekistics, 1963-1972) first published in the journal Sinteza (Ljubljana) and later in a separate book entitled Dialogues with the Delians in both Serbian and English, Ljublijana, 1978.

scholarly journals STS and Enhancement Technologies – A Programme for Future Research

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-28
Author(s):  
Michael Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Short History ◽  
Converging Technologies ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
Enhancement Technologies

The concept of human technological enhancement originated as a tool for the moral classification of technologies, but has since spilled over from ethical debates to become a site for prospective technology development as part of a ‘converging technologies’ agenda. To date, enhancement and the technologies labelled as ‘enhancing’ have been underserved by STS research. While case studies do exist, there has been a dearth of co-ordinated investigation. This paper proposes a systemic programme for STS research on enhancement technologies based on five key challenges posed by dominant conceptions of enhancement as a way of understanding technological development. After setting out this agenda, a short history of the enhancement debate is provided to illustrate the changing meanings of ‘enhancement’ across different contexts. Recognising the limitations of critique alone, particular emphasis is given to the possibilities for productive engagement by STS scholars with the domain of enhancement across its multiple manifestations.

scholarly journals History of Portuguese Architecture

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Lobo ◽  
Cátia Santos
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Central Region ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Original Structure ◽  
Concrete Case ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

The subject of History of Portuguese Architecture (HAP) originated in the School of Fine Arts of Oporto, more than three decades ago, under mastership of the Professor and Architect Alexandre Alves Costa.At the Architecture Course of FCTUC – Faculty of Sciences andTechnology of the University of Coimbra, HAP has been present from the very beginning. It started in 1992-93, as a subject of the 5th year, under the same Alexandre Alves Costa, then member of the Installing Commission of the course. Other professors who have ensured the subject in the last decade were Walter Rossa and the late Paulo Varela Gomes in addition to Rui Lobo, lecturer for the past five years.History of Portuguese Architecture, which now operates withinthe 4th year of the Architecture Course, has always had an essential practical component. By carrying out practical group work on concrete case studies, students are expected to learn how to investigate, how to search for and collect information and how to distinguish the various "life phases” of architectural objects, from their original structure to what still stands today. It is also intended that students learn to use contemporary means to rehearse and to display the research, lacing hypotheses and illustrating more or less plausible stages of the evolution of the studied objects in time.The themes are chosen by the groups (formed by 4 to 6 students)from an extended list previously proposed by the teachers. The study cases concern mainly Coimbra and Portugal’s central region, for obvious reasons of proximity, although cases are often proposed (and accepted by the students) in other areas of the country.

scholarly journals Ornamentation and Modern Architecture in Iraq

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 117-124
Author(s):  
Fawzia Irhayyim Hussein ◽  
Ghada Al Slik
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Before And After ◽  
History Of ◽  
Negative Impacts

Despite the history of Baghdad city extends into a long history, most of the contemporary buildings of Baghdad have been shaped in the era of modernity. Furthermore, most of the buildings of modernity in Baghdad are types of modernity buildings in Iraq as a whole, and due to all the joints of change and development are taking place in Iraq starts from Baghdad. Accordingly, all selected buildings, which would be presented as case studies of modernity will be exclusively in Baghdad. Although the importance of this significant modernist product, which represents the identity of Baghdad, which should be preserved by the renewal and preservation policies, the problem of research was emerged as follow: new finishing materials have been used to cover their exterior facades, which are unrelated to the notion of modernity. The aim of this research is highlighting this Phenomena, which occurred after 2003 in Iraq, and characterized by changing the monuments of modernity buildings. This change was either by undergoing a lot of changes of their facades design or by covering them with new materials. Thus, the use of these materials, specifically plates of aluminum will be analyzed and then, discussed the effects implications, since these buildings represent a cultural and architectural heritage that establishes architectural successes. Consequently, the research methodology will depend on the choice of buildings that built in an important era (between 1950s and 1960s), analysis their facades before and after changes, in order to identify the reasons that resulted to the usage of such materials and suggest recommendations, which can address their negative impacts.  

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Randall
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
James Madison ◽  
Modern Conception ◽  
Political World ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Constitutional Thought

The changed conception of conversation that emerged by c.1700 was about to expand its scope enormously – to the broad culture of Enlightenment Europe, to the fine arts, to philosophy and into the broad political world, both via the conception of public opinion and via the constitutional thought of James Madison (1751–1836). In the Enlightenment, the early modern conception of conversation would expand into a whole wing of Enlightenment thought. The intellectual history of the heirs of Cicero and Petrarch would become the practice of millions and the constitutional architecture of a great republic....

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McElvenny
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

This chapter sets the scene for the case studies that follow in the rest of the book by characterising the ‘age of modernism’ and identifying problems relating to language and meaning that arose in this context. Emphasis is laid on the social and political issues that dominated the era, in particular the rapid developments in technology, which inspired both hope and fear, and the international political tensions that led to the two World Wars. The chapter also sketches the approach to historiography taken in the book, interdisciplinary history of ideas.

THE TIMURID PERIOD FROM THE HISTORY OF THE FINE ARTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Ulug'bek Kuryazov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The article examines the works of scholars in the study of the history of fine arts, in particular miniatures of the Amir Temur era and temurids. Special attention is paid to the history of the creativity of Mirak Nakkosh and the outstanding miniaturist Kamoliddin Behzod. A comparative analysis of several miniature works is given. As well as analyzed some miniatures stored in the collections of museums and libraries of the world

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