Sentence examples for elements of architecture from inspiring English sources

Its Elemental draws from architect Rem Koolhaas' 2014 Venice Architectural Biennale work, The Elements of Architecture, where the architect laid out the fundamental building blocks of, well, building.

His The Elements of Architecture (1624) is a landmark volume that helped introduce Italian architectural theories into England.

He works on a large, even heroic scale, combining elements of architecture and anthropology.

The basic formal elements of architecture in this sense are space and mass.

Yet even the most fundamental and concrete elements of architecture are often designed to conceal.

We will explore concepts new and old, ranging from Semper's four elements of architecture, to bioclimatic design, to genetic algorithms.

"We've taken the most fundamental element of architecture," says Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, designer of this summer's Serpentine pavilion, which opens on Friday, "and unzipped it".

A tapered rectangular stone post topped with a portrait bust is now called a herm; it is a standard element of architecture in the classical style.

Architectural problems also occur when elements of an architecture violate modularity principles.

"One of Frank's strengths was that he was not a doctrinaire modernist; he would incorporate elements of traditional architecture in his modernist designs," Michael J. Crosbie, the author of "The Architecture of Frank Williams" (Rockport, 1995), said Friday.

Hunt's pedestal design contains elements of classical architecture, including Doric portals, as well as some elements influenced by Aztec architecture.