Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 — April 9, 1959), Master of the Organic Architecture, was one of the most prominent and influential architects of the first half of the 20th century. He not only developed a series of highly individual styles over his extraordinarily long architectural career (spanning the years 1887 – 1959), he influenced the whole course of American architecture and building. To this day he remains probably America’s most famous architect.
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Tadao Ando (Ando Tadao, born September 13, 1941 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture is sometimes categorised as Critical Regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field.
He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism.
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Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, and for its approach to design that it publicized and taught. The most natural meaning for its name (related to the German verb for “build”) is Architecture House. Bauhaus style became one of the most influential currents in Modernist architecture, and one of the most important currents of the New Objectivity.
The Bauhaus art school had a profound influence upon subsequent developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design and typography.
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OK, so I’ve finally finished implementing all the plug-ins and scripts for my gallery to work properly. Also, unknowingly, I’ve added another couple of hours of work per week to my schedule, since I have to maintain this gallery and update it frequently. But that work is going to be mostly on the picture-editing side of the process, because thanks to the awesome Lazy-K-Gallery plug-in for WordPress by Korey Atterberry, uploading the pictures, creating thumbnails, generating albums and organizing the pictures and thumbnails for display on my site is going to be a breeze; probably a couple of clicks at most! Continue reading »
Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features and core self expression. In other fields of art, it has been used to describe the plays of Samuel Beckett, the films of Robert Bresson, the stories of Raymond Carver, and even the automobile designs of Colin Chapman. Continue reading »