and appreciation of art, architecture, and other manifestations of visual culture, primarily of the modern and contemporary periods, and to collect, conserve, and study the art of our time. The Foundation realizes this mission through exceptional exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications, and strives to engage and educate an increasingly diverse international audience through its unique network of museums and cultural partnerships.”₁. The purpose of this building is to
Architecture is the art and science of design, planning and construction of buildings and facilities to cover the human needs of their material or moral, using different materials and methods of construction. And it expands the field of architecture to include aspects of different fields of knowledge and humanities, such as mathematics, science and technology, history, psychology, politics and social philosophy, culture, art and science as comprehensive. Building term may mean the following: A general
The subject of whether architecture falls under the category of art has always been highly debated and argued by academics and philosophers who have contributed valid reasoning as to why architecture is the highest form of art while others provided rational reasoning as to why it is not. In this essay, I will aim to construct a logical argument which aims to understand the theories of philosophers who had an significant influence on the subject, from the first definitive discourse on ‘fine arts’
Venturi (1966) remarked on the inevitable multi-functionality of spaces and thus, the necessity of multi-meaning structure for their corresponding architectural forms in his famous book titled “complexity and contradiction in architecture”. He believes that the plurality of the meaning and functions may enhance the intensity of spatial positive ambiguity and results in architectural spaces liveliness. Accordingly, he criticized the attitude of the modern architects who follow the modernism common
period in history dating from the 1860’s through to the 1970’s. The architecture of this time was characterized by the raw structural forms, simplicity, horizontal and vertical lines. The production of machinery was rapidly improving and increasing during the industrial revolution, which had a colossal influence on the design of modern architecture. Building materials and structural features were no longer concealed for aesthetic purposes as mechanics became artistic expression; exhibiting concrete, steel
The term of “information architecture” was proposed by Richard Wurman in 1975 in describing transformation of some meaningful information to use by people. Definition of IA. Information architecture (IA) is referring to a field of studies that concentrate on solving the fundamentals problem which include accessing and use of a wide amounts of data available (Resmini
removed the private houses that occupied the area from the agora, closed several wells, and established it as the centre of Athenian government – a place where free born male landowners in Greece used to gather to hear the King’s or the council’s statements and where the courts were held
moving the city from the 92nd most populated city in America in 1830, to 5th in 1870 (Julie Husband, 2004). Chicago is known globally for its influence on modern architecture which was driven by the city’s entrepreneur businessmen in an effort to try and encourage the development of the city, which characterised American Architecture in the form of Skyscrapers. Chicago’s population continued to augment and by 1890, it had reached 1,100,000. The population increase lead to a massive growth in the
CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study. In every community in the world, there exists a uniqueness that makes one part of the world different from the world. This can be seen in the way people live, there different landform and weather/climate differences but one key element that is common to every country is what we refer to as culture. Culture has been described by various anthropologists in different ways but with common elements that have peculiarity to every definition
Introduction The purpose of this assignment is to explore the importance of risk management within the banking industry, focusing mainly on Irelands second largest bank, Allied-Irish Bank (AIB). Risk implies exposure to uncertainty or threat (Kannan and Thangavel, 2008). It is anything that threatens or creates danger in an organisation. ‘Risk management is a journey... not a destination’, Knight (2010). In other words, risk management is the process of identifying current and future loss exposures