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Kisairis Espinal  Villa Schwob Villa Schwob was built in 1912 in Canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland, it's is the third largest city in French after Geneva and Lausanne. The architect on this project is Le Corbusier this was also his birthplace which is known for its unique architecture, microelectronics and its culture and sporting life. Throughout Le Corbusier career this is one of his least known projects due to the fact that he was a training architect during that time frame. This was a start of later issues that would become hallmarks of Le Corbusier, as his roof garden and spacious plan. There was a letter written to Ritter on June 1920, Jeanneret saw this house and right away she saw so many potentials, her idea was to incorporate new program she said ”I am devoted to serious works, even scientific, that is, to paintings that are at least the continuation of my House Schwob… But I look primarily at the Parthenon and Michelangelo… a reliable art. And ...

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...

Kisairis Espinal                             Falling water is a very famous house done by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright during 1935 in Pennsylvania 43 miles from Pittsburgh. This house was designed as a weekend home for a family Kaufmann and her husband, Mr. Kaufmann was an owner of the department store. This house was built on a waterfall on the Bear Run in the Mill Run. This is one of Wright’s most beautiful work, this is listed as one of the 28 places to visit before you die. This house was designated as a national historic landmark on 1996. The American Institute of Architects name this project best time best work of American in 2007, it was ranked 29 on the AIA. Mr. Kaufmann was a Pittsburgh businessman and the president of the department store. Mr. and Mrs. Kaufmann only had one child called Edgar Kaufmann Jr, he became the catalyst for the father and Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1934, Edgar read Wr...

Kisairis Espinal The Guggenheim Museum (The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) is an art museum located in New York on Fifth Avenue. this museum is the permanent home for post-impressionist, early modern, impressionist and contemporary art, all these feature exhibitions throughout time. this was a Frank Lloyd Wright project the idea “temple of the spirit” this cylindrical building is wider at the top than the bottom. Its interior unique ramp extends from the ground level in a long continuous spiral throughout the outer edge of the building. In 1992 the building went through a renovation when the adjoining tower was built. Throughout the eight decades, the museum has grown tremendously from the original collection. 1.2 million people have visited the museum and have been stated to be the most popular exhibition in New York.              Solomon R. Guggenheim comes from a wealthy mining family. That collects very old masterpieces since 1890’s. During 19...

Kisairis Espinal  The Syon House The Syon House is a 200- acre park located on the west side of London. This project was designed by Roberto Adam in the 1760s this belonged to the Duke of Northumberland and is now his family’s London residence. The park got its name from Syon Abbey which was a medieval monastery which was founded 1415 on a nearby site by King Henry V. In 1413 she moved in, she was one of the wealthiest people in the country. During a certain time, Syon became the property of the Crown for a short time before leasing it to the 1stDuke of Somerset, who rebuilt the house during the Italian Renaissance style. Occurring to the urban dictionary “was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy during the 14th century and lasted until the 17th century marking the transition between Medieval and Modern Europe”(). In 1557 the building was converted into a new building which w...

Kisairis Espinal Villa del Priorato di Malta Villa del Priorato di Malta was built in 939 as a Benedictian monastery, this belonged to the monastery of the Chiesa from which was separated in977. By the end of the 12th century this became a property of the Templars the defenders of the Christianity against Muslims. Malta “ is one of the two institutional seats of the government of the Sovereign Order of Malta ” (I nspirock ). During the 1312 the Templars were suspended and given the monastery to the Knights the religion because they had established it as the Holy Land by the monk of Genard this allowed them to give them medical and boarding assistance to the pilgrims. This order was determined on the island of Rhodes between 1312 till 1522 by this time the Malta then waited till the 1798after the Napoleon decided to move to Rome with very limited hospital assistance on the field. By this time, they had change their name in 1522 to Sovrano Ordine di Malta and...

Kisairis Espinal  School of Surgery (Ecole de Chirurgie)       Ecole de Chirurgie is a  Neoclassical style, during this period the according to the urban diction this period was the "w estern movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity"(B raham,  The Architecture of the French Enlightenment. ).  Ecole de Chirurgie was design by Godoin Jacques from 1769-1774 after surgery was recognized as a part in the medical field. The reason this was knowledge was because King Louis had high respect towards his friend Premier Chirurgien. After this an academy for surgery was establish around 1731. The construction of Jacaques shows an external façade with many horizontal extensions. The horizontal design gives it more open   space which vary in size, form and the functions that they perform. Maybe Jacaque...