Sentence examples for expressive architecture from inspiring English sources

The most expressive architecture will be found at Whitechapel, seemingly to honour the area's exciting vibrant diversity, which is probably a mistake: the station's multiple levels would have enough drama without the swooping, curving roofs and straining metal struts, which the architects have felt obliged to add to the design.

As a network application, it should also be supported in XIA (eXpressive Internet Architecture), which is in both FIA and FIA-NP projects.

Overall, RTC leads to profound changes in the design, performance and expressive language of architecture and thus fosters the creation of architecture that profoundly reinvents its constructive repertoire.

He could reasonably also point to other eruptions in the city's expressive, not-reticent architecture.

It harks back to a time when expressive form in architecture stood for exuberance and generosity, not a failure to economize.

and from the traditions of the various offices of government (law courts, assembly houses, city halls, etc).. Governments that exercise power by force rather than by consent tend to employ the expressive functions of architecture to emphasize their power; they tend to produce buildings of a monumentality disproportionate to their service to the community.

One thing is for sure, said Joseph Holtzman, the editor in chief of Nest, a magazine about and for those who fetishize the domestic environment: the triplex is an expressive piece of architecture the likes of which will not be seen again in Manhattan, given the stringency of building codes and landmark rulings that have taken hold since Rudolph planted his aesthetic seeds more than 30 years ago.

A second theme, as Guyer notes, is Kant's emphasis as a piece of his cognitivism on the expressive capacity of architecture relative to aesthetic, idealized notions of function, structure, and physical forces.

The weather protection and the PA systems became expressive elements of the architecture".

But she comes from a part of the world where architecture's expressive energies have been discharged for centuries through the ornamental treatment of writing and geometric patterns.

Historian, curator, and documentarian, Margolies took to the road in the seventies to record in photographs the color, naïveté, and commercial exuberance of drive-in theatres, fast-food restaurants, and motels, seeing them as a richly expressive species of folk architecture.