Walter Gropius
Di With the growth of industrial Manchester, Karl Friedrick Scinkel launched a question: "All the great ages of history have left a building, so why should not we forge a style suitable for us?" From that moment on, Germany became the epicenter of the continental architectural debate, spearheading the technical-scientific experimentation and led Europe.
Gropius had, therefore, needs to assert itself with loud manifestos and statements of axiomatic principles.
In 1919, when Gropius succeeded van de Velde, transforms the Bauhaus school of architecture education expanded in Dessau.
Gropius's story does not begin, however, with the Bauhaus. A student of Behrens, built in 1911, with Adolf Meyer, the factory Fagus at Alfeld an der Leine, while the Pavilion of the Werkbund exhibition in Cologne in '14 reveals the strengths and uncertainties Animus Gropius. The war drags
Gropius in the whirlwind expressionist. However, the activity can be considered expressionist Gropius very fleeting. In 1922 the project for the "Chicago Tribune" assembles volumes in dissonance, and the "total theater" of '26 marks a climax in the investigation of a multi-purpose hall for theatrical performances and mobility. In '22
van Doesburg had come to Weimar to promulgate the word cancer and Gropius could not tolerate such an invasion, instigated from the wing Expressionist teacher, had no access to the Bauhaus, but as an architect, he assimilated the lesson at least half of De Stijl. Breaking down the body of the new Bauhaus in the cubic block of dorms, in the articulated body of classes, workshops in the prism glass, and careful not to reconnect with elements assonant. Giedion observes that he can not see the whole building, even in the floor plan drawing, unless you move and revolve around the eye.
Likewise Bauhaus stood adjacent to the houses of the professors. They do not obey laws a priori: the piles appear where they are needed.
had a certain importance in the career of Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus. Widely
paralyzed by their own ideas at least five years before the Nazis decreed the end, he had international impact, but could not penetrate the German university in appearing. It embodied, however, the bad conscience, not by developing a specific teaching method, but an experimental approach is open, receptive of any meaningful input in the design, from graphics to furniture, architecture, photography, handmade piece to the prototype industry. The aim is also on teamwork, a collaboration that "synchronize individual efforts, reaching a potential greater than the sum of an equal number of isolated individuals."
emigration due to the coming Nazi Gropius does not, however, a rethinking of his ideas, but in England where he made repairs, along with Edwin Maxwell Fry, the original school Impington, he was invited to chair the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, he moved to the United States. Here, using the contribution of other refugees, causes a shift in architectural education, but without playing a Bauhaus. On the ground training, is associated with his disciple Marcel Breuer and, later, he formed the TAC (The Architects Collaborative) with seven ex-students of Harvard.
The arc can be distinguished American Gropius in two phases. The first, from the wooden homes of Lincoln and Wayland to the prism and the prefabricated expandable working-class neighborhood in New Kensington, testifies to a gradual assimilation of local trends. The second, characterized by teamwork Tac, has an excellent debut in the courts interfluenti the Graduate Center at Harvard, but it often falls eclecticism.
Gropius durability does not know a brilliant and explosive, such as Le Corbusier, nor a period of operational success, as Mies. Sees rise in West Berlin but the Gropiusstadt, offered free from the ancient homeland
Thursday, January 31, 2008
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Andy Kaufmann
Kaufman died May 16, 1984 for lung cancer, and was buried at Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, New York (Long Island).
Many people doubted Kaufman's death for years, believing his death as his last and final joke. The suspicion arose also because of the cause of death of Kaufman: lung cancer is very rare in a non-smoker and in people under the age of 50. Kaufman himself, on one occasion said that sooner or later he staged his death, to return 20 years later (May 16, 2004), creating a real urban legend.
Life of Andy Kaufmann is synthesized in the wonderful film by Jim Carrey: The men on the moon.
Kaufman died May 16, 1984 for lung cancer, and was buried at Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, New York (Long Island).
Many people doubted Kaufman's death for years, believing his death as his last and final joke. The suspicion arose also because of the cause of death of Kaufman: lung cancer is very rare in a non-smoker and in people under the age of 50. Kaufman himself, on one occasion said that sooner or later he staged his death, to return 20 years later (May 16, 2004), creating a real urban legend.
Life of Andy Kaufmann is synthesized in the wonderful film by Jim Carrey: The men on the moon.
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August Perret
Auguste Perret, the son of a builder, attended the Ecole des Beaux - Arts in the last 800 years, but did not get a diploma while working in the company of his father.
The first major work is the house No. 25 bis rue Franklin in Paris, completed in 1903, where for the first time the skeleton of reinforced concrete is used to bind the outer appearance.
It is closed using a strip of land between the buildings, rather broad and shallow. It would be very difficult to achieve such a body with ordinary masonry. Similar difficulties distribution, often in Paris, the high cost of land, are already often resolved with a skeleton structures, iron or concrete for a few years.
iron and cement, however, remain inside, hidden behind a wall as the facade of Horta Tassel House. The garage
rue Ponthieu, in 1905, is also resolved that the skeleton of reinforced concrete cast on the facade, determine its composition, here there is only a frame of beams and pillars that plastered framed windows of various sizes.
In these two works, classroom and theater of the Champs Elysees in 1911, are already fully delineated characters architecture Perret, who remain steadfast in the wonderful works of the postwar period, the industrial tailoring Esders, the churches of Notre Dame du Raincy and Montmagny, theater for the exhibition of decorative arts of '25, the hall of the Scuola Normale de Musique, the State Museum of the furniture and offices for technical services of shipbuilding, the house on the rue Raynouard, he established his studio: the rigorous construction, the formal simplification and courageous with the stubborn loyalty to certain traditional rules of composition.
A concrete structure of the type used by Perret consists of a skeleton of columns and beams to which they rely on the horizontal structures, the external walls and any partitions internal.
A whole century of experience has tested and consolidated this convention by which they were born all the advances of modern technology.
Auguste Perret, the son of a builder, attended the Ecole des Beaux - Arts in the last 800 years, but did not get a diploma while working in the company of his father.
The first major work is the house No. 25 bis rue Franklin in Paris, completed in 1903, where for the first time the skeleton of reinforced concrete is used to bind the outer appearance.
It is closed using a strip of land between the buildings, rather broad and shallow. It would be very difficult to achieve such a body with ordinary masonry. Similar difficulties distribution, often in Paris, the high cost of land, are already often resolved with a skeleton structures, iron or concrete for a few years.
iron and cement, however, remain inside, hidden behind a wall as the facade of Horta Tassel House. The garage
rue Ponthieu, in 1905, is also resolved that the skeleton of reinforced concrete cast on the facade, determine its composition, here there is only a frame of beams and pillars that plastered framed windows of various sizes.
In these two works, classroom and theater of the Champs Elysees in 1911, are already fully delineated characters architecture Perret, who remain steadfast in the wonderful works of the postwar period, the industrial tailoring Esders, the churches of Notre Dame du Raincy and Montmagny, theater for the exhibition of decorative arts of '25, the hall of the Scuola Normale de Musique, the State Museum of the furniture and offices for technical services of shipbuilding, the house on the rue Raynouard, he established his studio: the rigorous construction, the formal simplification and courageous with the stubborn loyalty to certain traditional rules of composition.
A concrete structure of the type used by Perret consists of a skeleton of columns and beams to which they rely on the horizontal structures, the external walls and any partitions internal.
A whole century of experience has tested and consolidated this convention by which they were born all the advances of modern technology.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
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an electronic band formed by Yasutaka Nakata , multi-talented musician, who directs the production, art direction, design and styling, and Toshiko Koshijima , vocalist. Their last album "Sugarless GiRL" went to No.1 on the iTunes Music Store Japan, and "Starry Sky", won the second place of the Electronic Chart Switzerland, then expands worldwide. Yasutaka Nakata is also working as a producer, which sees the collaboration of other artists like m-flo, MEG, and many others. It also has a close connection with fashion and worked as a DJ for events in various clubs. In 2005, he composed the music for a short animation movie "Flying City Plan" produced in collaboration with Studio Ghibli.
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