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Schroder House The Schroder house was built in 1924 by architect Gerrit Rietveld. It was commissioned by Mrs. Truus Schroder to shelter herself and her children in the Netherlands . It is a small one family house, with a flexible interior, spatial arrangement, and the visual and formal qualities. The Schroder house plays a part in the modern movement as it was a masterpiece and that cleverly expresses its ideas and concepts developed by the De Stijl movement. The planar qualities were used to derive interior spaces and also creating different armature per floor. The Schroder house is the only house that was designed and strictly followed the De Stijl style which was marked with primary colors that can be seen throughout the entire building. The small two-story dwelling had 2 stories, the first floor is the public and transformable area with all the necessary living spaces while upstairs were more private separated by portable partitions. ...

This building was a masterpiece done by Gustav Klimt, one of the most widely recognized artworks of Secession style. It is even on the national side of the Austrian coin (.50). The Vienna Secession was founded in 1897 by Gustav Klimt, Joseph Maria Olbrich, and Josef Hoffman. Because Vienna was becoming a growing metropolis and it was supposed to be represented that way. They were inspired by arts and craft and organic geometries, essentially an abstract architecture. The building has a covered courtyard structure, it provided for gallery space on all sides of a large top-lit rectangular exhibition hall in the center. The materials used in this building was mainly masonry and metal. the crowning element sketched by Klimt included a perforated metal dome, suspended between four pylons and set above profiled planar masses. The slogan of the Secessionist movement is written above the entrance of the pavilion: "To every age its art, to every art its freedom”. Below the motto, the...

REDWOOD HARRISON The Redwood Library and Athenaeum are in Newport. It is the oldest community library still occupying its original building in the United States founded in 1747.  His way of the design was widely copied since then, it was the beginning of the New World.  Harrison had a lot of inspirations from those before him. He had the most stylistic and most advanced private library designs of his era. Harrison used Roman Doric temple with portico and wings, which was probably an inspiration from 1735 edition of Andrea Palladio’s architecture.  The building is crafted of wood, with a rustic appeal to look like stone. This was done to make use of local materials while mimicking the look of stone because that’s what’s was big at that time. Stone shows order and power which is meant to leave a statement. The two small projecting wings of the facade provided for office space and allowed for four large windows on the front as well as three small windows in the at...

ANDALUSIA, PA This is an architectural style that mimics or is a copy of Greek motifs that is done by a lot of architects. Greek style usually consists of column and pilasters, round columns are commonly used but square or even octagon columns have also been used. The main reasons for the style’s popularity seem to have been the general intellectual preoccupation with ancient Greek culture at the time, as well as a new awareness of the actual nature of Greek art brought about through widely circulated illustrations of notable ancient temples and the Elgin Marbles. The door itself might be single whether or double, is then divided into one, two, or four panels. Almost invariably, a portico or porch was added in front of the entrance. Architects were coming up with interesting variations of Greek styles for about two decades of the mid-19th century. Whether it’s a townhouse or freestanding it comes in various materials. For example, in Brooklyn, they are materials like brick, brow...

An imaginary island described in sir Thomas mores utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc. He essentially didn’t believe in change, he wanted to create an ideal place with no government control. The majority of the population would be in the city, which is the center followed by its surrounding countryside. It is based off a rectangular based plan similar to the roman urban planning. sir More knew what poor living conditions was like with no sunlight, bad hygiene and narrow streets. He was very generous when he was designing the ideal city. It had a lot of space, so much that you cannot walk to your closest neighbor’s house. It was 54 cities in total with no more than 6000 families per city. It is a place where there is a barrier between what is playful or serious, function and reality. It stretches utopia from all sides and also creates a thin line between the thought of experience and  dwells to live on. Thus utopia was more less a fantasy land whi...

Kew Gardens Beehive inspired pavilion Tree top walk way On July 3rd 2003 the Kew garden was officially a word heritage site. Kew garden is filled with a variety of rare and indigenous plants and birds. It has some beautiful structure some dated back to the 1700s, which is one of the smallest and most intimate is made from red brick in a Flemish bond with the sides and ends alternating. The experience of visiting the gardens is breath taking with the experience of the bird life, the shade of the garden itself and the beautiful architecture.(1) King Williams’s temple sits on a mountain high platform in memory of William the fourth which was order to build by Queen Victoria. Its portico ordering system is “aba” like most small temples. The portico also contains plaques commemorating British military victories. (2)The main gate was fashion and Jacobean style iron work supported by stone pillars and was built in 4 years to signify what will become one of the world’s impor...