This seminar investigates and interrogates points of intersection between poetic and architectural traditions by focusing on a particular set of literary concepts or strategies, including genre, decorum, rhetoric, ornament, grammar, and style, and architectural "places" such as the villa, garden, ruin or fragment, city, and utopia.
My friend Gemma Page, who has been part of the prestigious cast that played Follies, by Stephen Sondheim at the National Theatre, gave me the brilliant idea to start a 'cultural diary.' I have called it 'my book of beauties.' This is where I now keep track of all the pieces of art, shows, movies, architectural places that I visit.
They look at each project on each individual basis and the merits of each project". Architectural plans place the museum on 13 acres in the Pine Meadows section of Griffith Park, next to the Golden State freeway and beside the Los Angeles Zoo parking lot.
The architectural details place the viewer in a palatial context with stately columns and marble floor, framed on the right by the emperor himself sporting, along with crown and scepter, regal attire richly trimmed at the sleeve and hemline.
Holden recognised that his architectural style placed him in "rather a curious position, not quite in the fashion and not quite out of it; not enough of a traditionalist to please the traditionalists and not enough of a modernist to please the modernists".
The original architectural design placed the main court in the scenic, if cramped, courtyard.
A charette was originally a Roman two-wheeled vehicle (not to be confused with a four-wheeled chariot) and later came to mean a small cart in which French architectural students placed their drawings.
Thus, functionalist architectural doctrine places function or utility at the heart of the architectural enterprise, with other aspects of architecture subordinate thereto.
This phase brilliantly captures the essence of modern architectural design, placed in the world of residential building.
