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The Schroder home in Ritterfeld, also known as Schröder House. It located in Utrecht, The Netherlands and designed by Dutch architect Herit Ritterfeld. Rietveld was built the project as a residential building for Mrs. Truus Schröder- and his three children in 1924. The project is one of the best examples of the "De Stijl" building, and it also the only authentic Dutch-style building. Mrs. Schroder lived in the house until her death in 1985. The house was restored by Bertus Mulder and open to the public. This two-story house was built at the end of a row of terraced houses, but it did not try to connect with its neighboring buildings. The flexible space has no hierarchy in the floor plan. The structure of the house is reinforced concrete slab and steel. Walls are made by bricks with paints. Those window frames, door frames and flooring are made by wood. The building interior space has flexibility has showed distinguishable and unique on every level. The ground floor i...

The  Falling Water is a housing project design by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar Kaufmann’s family. The project is located 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is famous for its unique design concept - a house sit on above a stream and a waterfall, and the project has shown the appearance of Wright's concept "Organic Architecture": the structure has used cantilever with open plan design. In 1996, Falling Water was designated as a National Historic Landmark. Wright used to have a conflict with the Kaufmann’s family and consultation when he was designing the project. Furthermore, he wanted to follow his design philosophy and give up the project to  put pressure to the family to agree with him. Finally, they agreed and let Wright to produce amazing and stunning housing design to the world. The driveway passes through the forest and falls to approach the project. The bridge leads visitors to arrive the entrance. The falls has  set behind the ...

The Seagram building is located in 375 Park Avenue, which is between 52 nd  and 53 rd  in Midtown Manhattan.A huge grid bronze skyscraper with a shining glass curtains stand next to a spacious fountain. This 157-meter-high, 38-story glass-walled office building has now been surrounded and  covered  by some  sophisticated  and  new  glass skyscrapers to stop its fame. In fact, it is a monumental design in architecture to open era of skyscraper.  The main materials of decorations for skyscrapers were marble and granite before the Seagram Building completed in 1958. Their structures and technique were almost same as the Seagram Building, and the architects were look forward in culture and aesthetics of traditional European style. The Seagram Building has built a new format of skyscraper. T he German -American architect Mies van der Rohe convinced the Seagram family to have a wealth budget to prepare the building’s material. His famous archite...

The Robie House is located next to the campus of University of Chicago, the district of southern Chicago. It was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright at Oak Park Studio from 1908 to 1909. The project was designed for Frederick C. Robie, which is a business person in Chicago. The Robie family moved in shortly after completing the project in 1910, but they sold the house due to financial issue. The Robie family lived here for only 14 months. The project was faced to tear down after the right had changed to several buyers. It has saved because of Wright and the people who related to the project. The house has operated and opened visit by The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust. The Robbie House is the great model of Prairie Style. And it has named as the pioneer of American Architecture Style. It has collected in National Historic Landmark in 1963. Based on the site of Robie House is 180 feet wide and 60 feet deep only, and it is located in the corner. The landlord required t...

Villa Jeanneret-Perret is the first realization of Le Corbusier as an independent architect. The project built in 1912, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, home town of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret.It was originally intended for his parents. The Villa Jeanneret-Perret is located on the edge of the forest on a very steep terrain, overlooking the north-west city of La Chaux-de-Fonds. The site offers a wide view and distant view. It is a family house built on a rectangular plane and supported by the outer walls and four central pillars, thus releasing all other internal partitions of their bearing function. Thus, interior spaces are separated only by light partitions, anticipating the principle of "piles" and "free plan". The house has two levels. It is like a compact cube, with a recess reserved for the entrance and the stairs. The axis of the house, or "cathedral transept" as Le Corbusier said, is extended by a central advance semicircle side south-west. The who...

Bauhaus Dessau, located in Dessau, Germany.  The building was commissioned by the city of Dessau, and designed by Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus. The construction was begun in autumn 1925, and signed off in December 1926. The total area of Bauhaus contains approximately 256,000sq-ft of floor space. The time was after WW1. The Weimar Republic united the Germany. The Bauhaus had been developing by the government. There was a Bauhaus located in Weimar founded in 1919. The students produce their new designs and create exhibition in Bauhaus. Many purchasers form the west came to Bauhaus to order their designs. Sounds like the Bauhaus Weimar was very successful during the period. However, the school funding had cut off by the education department because of the political issue. The Bauhaus Weimar had closed in 1925. And the School were looking for alternative sources of funding for continue the school. Then they have moved to Dessau to continue their business. The...

The  chapel at Ronchamp is a Catholic chapel in Ronchamp, France. The building was built in the fourth century, and there were two replacements. The first one was the previous chapel burned in lightning with fire accident in 1913. And the other one was destroyed by the German Bombing in 1944. Architect Le Corbusier had in charge to restore the second time, which is the existing chapel with fantastic design in the world. In the beginning of the plan, Corbusier wanted to restore the building. However, his team had figured out the cost of restoration is more expensive than rebuild the chapel. Furthermore, it would be more efficiency to control budget, materials and labors. He supported by his friends Ledeur Mathey and Pierre Marie Marie Alain Courtrier to make the decision. Le Corbusier had visited the place in June 1950. He spent time to sketch and walk around the hillside to create a bell shape plan” taking as a starting point the four horizons These are, the plain of Saone, ...

The Saint-Michel fountain built in 1860 by the architect Gabriel Davioud.The fountain is located at the bottom of the boulevard Saint Michel near the Saint Michel bridge which spans the Seine. It includes a bronze group carved by Francisque Duret (1804-1865), inspired by the painting of Raphael in the Louvre, representing Saint Michael slaying the demon. The two dragons were sculpted by Henri-Alfred Jacquemart Davioud's fountain is huge in scale: it measures 85 x 49 ft. was built to hide the large gable of the islet on the edge of the Place Saint-André des Arts,slightly deviating from the main north-south road. She also wanted to recall the memory of the old chapel Saint-Michel in the island of the city..The centerpiece is the bronze statue of St. Michael. The archangel is shown in Roman garb, brandishing his sword of fire and seemingly ready to strike the demon. The sculpture group, a work of the French sculptor Francisque Duret, stands in a niche and rests on an artificial r...

Rue de Rivoli is one of the most famous streets in Paris. The street named by Napoleon defeated the Austrian army in the battle of Rivoli on January 14 and January 1797 and achieved the name of early victory. The history of the street is complex and long. There are many projects to be announce for unite the streets and roads with Louvre gardens placed alongside the Louvre after the  Place de la Concorde   built in 1770s. Usually it would combined with the plans of the combined Louvre and Tuileries palaces. Napoleon eventually approved the construction of such a street and he took the first steps to create a Tuileries Palace - the Louvre's Super Palace. The emperor  asked his advisors- the offical architects  Fontaine and Percier to complete the city development. The Rivoli Street sign is famous for official plans for the transition between compromised monuments, urbanism and modern forms of the aristocratic square. The significations of the street are the tran...

The Schloss Glienicke was the summer residence of Prince Charles of Prussia. This palace is located southwest of Berlin, on the border of Potsdam, near the Glienicke Bridge. Managed by the Foundation of the Palaces and Gardens of Prussia and Berlin-Brandenburg, the palace is located in the park of Glienicke. The central element of a set of architecture, art and important cultural buildings dates from the first half of the nineteenth century. In the year 1990 it was declared a World Heritage Site . The current classical form is due to the renovations and additions made by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1825. After the death of Prince Charles, which took place in 1883, the building quickly went unnoticed. During the Second World War, it served as a military hospital and after the war was over, it was used for a short period for building Red Army offices. From the 1950s, the palace and the annexes were used as a hotel and sports area, and since 1976, as a secondary s...