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CROWN HALL (1956) " Less is more " S.R. Crown Hall Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe was born in Aachen, Germany in 1886. Growing up, he was brought into his father's stone carving business and eventually started to work at local design firms. Exploring other firms and practices, he eventually crossed paths with greats like Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius. After World War I, he fled to the United States and began practicing his architecture in a different tone. Mies originally was interested in Traditionalism and ornament. His early projects conveyed historical styles and classic facades, but his shift in interest then steered him towards a more modernist approach. Eventually, Mies started to get recognition for his work and was involved in projects like the Barcelona Pavilion which was a part of the Weissenhofsiedlung, Bauhaus, IIT Masterplan and more. The project that really started to showcase Mies' understanding of structure and grid was S.R. Crown Hall, a facil...

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...

Bibliotheque Sainte Genvieve is a public and university library in Paris.This is the first time of the library that not change to palace, school or apart of chapel. The building is designed by  Henri Labrouste . The library must be built on a narrow strip of land 85 meters long and 21 wide, located on the top of the Sainte-Geneviève Mountain, overlooking the Pantheon. The construction has spent eight years, the new library being opened in 1851. It leaves the neoclassical style in vogue at the time for large public buildings, for a much more sober and sleek style. It can be defined as neo-Gothic Style. The library is organize by two rows of cast iron arches. The arches are a part of decoration of the library.  The building load support by thin black iron columns. Gallery space is located in the top part of the bookcases. On the facade, no element protrudes and a single and modest door is in the center. The architecture of this one is entered in the masonry of the buil...