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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Finally, after a long, long wait, the domain — minusfive.com — is mine! (and yours to enjoy of course!). I’m sorry if you were getting used to the whole minusfive-design.com thing, but I’ve always loved short and simple domain names. Unfortunately, when I started using the nickname (minusfive), I still didn’t know much about how the whole ‘internet thing’ worked; I just knew how to get ‘online’ on Microsoft’s™ Chat, mIRC, or whatever other chat room I’d find. Continue reading »
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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Yes. It is true. minusfive | Life. Design. Minimalism. has been featured in W3CSites. Yes! Featured! As in: ‘showcased in the front page’! What, you don’t believe me? Check it out by yourself! [Link] See!… Well, if you didn’t see it, then, their site was probably updated already with new sites which were showcased and mine probably went to some ‘archives’ page or something; but I promise! It used to be there!.. Oh well, at least I had my 15 minutes of fame ;) Continue reading »
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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