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PHILIPPE Brunelleschi All construction activities Brunelleschi, in the city and beyond, was held on behalf of or with the approval of the commune of Florence. According to Philip, and projects under his leadership has been built a system of fortifications in the conquered cities of the Republic, on the borders of subordinate or-controlled territories. The large fortification works were in Pistoia, Lucca, Pisa, Livorno, Rimini, Siena, and in the vicinity of these cities. Florence was surrounded by a wide ring of fortresses. Brunelleschi strengthened Bank Arnault was building bridges. It is included in the complex relations with the Duke of Milan. In the brief intervals of truce sent in Milan, Mantua, Ferrara - probably not only in connection with his professional responsibilities, but also from a diplomatic mission. |
PETER Behrens In 1907, Behrens has been invited for the post of artistic adviser to Germany′s largest electric company AEG. The Berlin office Behrens worked Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier. This association led by a prominent bourgeois politician V. Ratenau, sought to make a high aesthetic quality of the production tool in the fight for international markets, as a representative, a monumental image of the production facilities considered essential for the approval of the prestige of the firm. The duties of Behrens included not only the design of electrical equipment, branded packaging, catalogs and posters, but also building factories and workshops. The specificity of industrial products for mass production for the first time the full artistic expression in the work of Behrens for AEG. |
Guarino Guarini One of his later works, palazzo Karinyano (1680), is an example of how Gvarini sought in Modeling is almost the same plastic as Borromini. Influence of the palazzo with the curved facade outlines and plastic forms of stairs, at the palace architecture extended to southern Germany late, no doubt. Large, elliptical in the lobby serves as the center, which tied all the other elements of the draft palazzo Karinyano. The internal movement of the walls of the vestibule, describing an ellipse, is moving towards the wall stairs adjacent to the lobby of the two wings left and right, and transferred them to all the elements of undulating exterior wall. However, despite the power of architecture, which has Gvarini in this work, for in its interior layout is not even close to solving the specific problems of civil architecture, which faced the architects of the time. The main creative forces of Italian architecture of that period were focused on solving the interior of the church. In terms of technology, all of their unbridled imagination rush to design the huge interior spaces. This overall assessment is fair and Gvarini. |
ROBERT ADAM Contemporaries found it master, able to translate their perceptions of comfort and utility, emerge from such a specific feature of English architecture. Rationalism, clothed in the forms of Greek antiquity, defined the essence of the creative method of Adam. The appearance of these buildings was to be characterized by a noble simplicity of the monuments created by the democratic Greece. To the side facades of the palaces, as well as for facial facades of bourgeois houses are characterized by large windows with wide fan-shaped timpanami platbands occurring continuously and over doors. Favorite scheme plan for the residences of the magnates in the shape of Adam′s letters "H" and "B". In the center was placed a round or oval room, which opens the doors to the two parallel enfilade of rooms, they sometimes adjoined for the convenience of a corridor in a room they have just in case output. |
Giacomo Quarenghi As he wrote later than the architect himself, he had "since childhood showed a sincere call to the arts", but his parents were preparing another career. The family had a long tradition: if born three sons, two of them should take the rank of the cleric, as well as Giacomo was the second of three sons, the parents insisted on the observance of the established traditions and looks at what it will take a well-ryasu . Primary Giacomo was in the large and well known in Bergamo College "Charity." My father insisted that he studied philosophy and jurisprudence. Quarenghi recalled: ": I can not sufficiently express my disgust with which I indulge in such exercises. But I will not deny that in the course of rhetoric, I felt a special inclination towards poetry, and that to me before the excesses enjoyed three fine Latin poet - Catullo, Tibull and more than all Virgil, of which I translated into Italian verse a few pieces: but the inclination, I strongly vlekshaya for the Arts, does not allow me to become either a poet or philosopher, nor a spiritual person, was the reason that I have learned little or no fruit derived from such exercises. " |
Henry Gibson Richardson As he wrote later than the architect himself, he had "since childhood showed a sincere call to the arts", but his parents were preparing another career. The family had a long tradition: if born three sons, two of them should take the rank of the cleric, as well as Giacomo was the second of three sons, the parents insisted on the observance of the established traditions and looks at what it will take a well-ryasu . Primary Giacomo was in the large and well known in Bergamo College "Charity." My father insisted that he studied philosophy and jurisprudence. Quarenghi recalled: ": I can not sufficiently express my disgust with which I indulge in such exercises. But I will not deny that in the course of rhetoric, I felt a special inclination towards poetry, and that to me before the excesses enjoyed three fine Latin poet - Catullo, Tibull and more than all Virgil, of which I translated into Italian verse a few pieces: but the inclination, I strongly vlekshaya for the Arts, does not allow me to become either a poet or philosopher, nor a spiritual person, was the reason that I have learned little or no fruit derived from such exercises. " |
Osip Ivanovich Bove To restore the burning and destruction of the ancient capital was organized by the Commission for the construction of Moscow. The city is divided into four sections, each headed by an architect with his assistants. In September 1813 the post of architect of the fourth sector comes back from the national militia Bove. Since that time, all the work of Osip Ivanovich related to the Commission in the conduct of Beauvais are the most significant, the central areas of the city - Urban, Tverskaya, Arbat, Presnensky and Novinskaya part. The architect and his assistants of projects for construction of residential houses, participating in their laying and watching them "in the production of precision prozhektirovannym lines, also issued plans and facades. He designs retail stores in various parts of the city. Special approval of its projects have the shops for the shopping center on Red Square and around the walls of China town, between Nikolsky, Ilyinsky and barbaric gate. |
Louis Sullivan : Luis Interest in engineering in general and to the [two] bridges, in particular, so much captured his imagination, that for some time he dreamed of becoming an engineer Fourth quarter. The idea of overlapping voids powerfully attracted him and in theory and in practice. He began to realize that among people who lived in the past and living in his day, there are people - the owners of ideas, people of courage and that they stand apart, each shutting himself in his own world. But the practical result of the impact of bridges Louis was that it shifted his thoughts directly with engineering science to science in general, and with a new zeal, he began reading the works of Spencer, Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall and German scientists, and before it was disclosed a new, epic world, a world that did not seem to have no limits on volume, not content, or for diversity. This course of reading was not completed for the month of the year for many years, he still continues. " |
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