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Emilia Kightley-Sutter In 1840 a small town in Germany called Bad Blackenburg took the first steps into forming what is now known as kindergarten. Kindergarten was founded and also designed architecturally by a man named Friedrich Frobel. Although the original building is not functioning as a kindergarten anymore it has been transformed into a museum dedicated to Frobels life. Frobel studied architecture at the Frankfurt University in Frankfurt, Germany. His main concept in inventing kindergarten was to protect and shield children from the misery at the beginning of industrialization. He wanted to protect, educate, and prevent them from horrid working conditions for young people. The original design of the building has been completely renovated but the message of educating children has not been dissolved. The architecture and layout of this kindergarten has a huge role on how the children would behave, adapt, and grow. “ Froebel thought existing construction toys, with their realis...

A School Ahead of its Time Design by Walter Gropius the Bauhaus in Germany Dessau is an outstanding example of the modern movement. Been one of the first schools of design it brought together the most magnificent contemporary architects and artists and an innovative center for training. The name of the school translate to "Construction House" in German which couldn’t have been such a perfect choice. The Bauhaus in Dessau, been the most famous of all the three (others been in Weimar and Berlin) is the product of previous movements such as the arts and crafts movement, with much more emphasis on modern materials such as steel, concrete, and glass [2]. Its intent, according to Gropius was to integrate all of the arts, an integral part of the things of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society [7]. The Bauhaus is rectangular shaped with a flat-roof structure built on concrete . The exterior walls are mostly taken up by windows, giving the stru...

Kisairis Espinal  Glass Pavilion The Glass is located at the Cologne Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition designed by Bruno Taut in 1914. This is a prismatic glass dome structure constructed using concrete and glass. The façade has colored glass plates that act as mirrors and reflect everything around it. The architect Bruno describes his project as a “little temple of beauty” the reason he refers to it like because it has changed color through time, it started with a dark blue to rose to moss green and golden yellow. This is Taut best known architectural achievement know throughout his whole career, he designed this for an exhibition in 1914 for the industry association. The whole purpose of this element was to show that throughout architecture the using of glass can be explored in many different ways, he also related it to human emotion of a spiritual utopia.             This pavilion was shaped like a pineapple with...