scholarly journals The Influence of Le Corbusier On the emergence of the Aesthetic Values in the Modern Architecture of Cyprus

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Farhan Abdullah Ali ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Values

Niemeyer, Oscar (1907–2012)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Urban Planner ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
The Aesthetic

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho, better known as Oscar Niemeyer, was a prolific Brazilian architect and one of the leading Latin American exponents of international Modernism. Like Le Corbusier, whom he admired, he explored the aesthetic possibilities of reinforced concrete, but used the plasticity of the medium to transcend the rigid dogmatism of European Modernism, while evoking elements of the Brazilian landscape. His reputation rests primarily on the ceremonial buildings he created for the utopian capital of Brazil, but at the time of his death in 2012 he had completed approximately 600 works throughout the Americas, Africa, and Europe. Niemeyer attended the National School of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro from 1929 to 1934. He worked in the office of the influential Brazilian architect and urban planner Lúcio Costa in 1932, a professional partnership that would last decades and result in many important works of modern architecture. From 1936–1943 Niemeyer was a member of the team of Brazilian architects working with Le Corbusier on the new building for the Ministry of Education and Health in Rio de Janeiro. At the age of 29, he was assigned as a draftsman for Le Corbusier, but the changes he introduced after Le Corbusier’s departure convinced Costa to appoint him as the project's lead architect. The building, a horizontal bar bisected by a vertical slab, became an icon of Brazilian architecture and attracted international recognition.

Houses beyond manifestos

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-25
Author(s):  
Ruth Verde Zein
Keyword(s):  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Interconnected Network ◽  
Commercial Space ◽  
Good Shape ◽  
Individual Solution

Brazilian historiography on modern architecture, replicated by international authors, confirms the importance and the pioneer stance of Gregori Ilitch Warchavchik (1896-1972)/Mina Klabin’s (1896-1969) 1927-1932 architecture in São Paulo, and the 1126 Bahia Street (Luiz da Silva Prado) house, 1930-1931, São Paulo, Brazil, is a remarkable example of their initial set of houses. Its design dialogues with other houses simultaneously designed by Adolf Loos (1870-1933), Le Corbusier (1887-1965), Juan O’Gorman (1905-1982), and the connections among all these modernist pieces and their authors suggest the informal existence of an interconnected network of creators, spread across continents. Likewise, they all put forward proselytizing strategies to amplify the repercussion of their works through exhibitions, publications, and debates. The generous internal spaces of this house on Bahia Street, the steady play of its geometrical composition, and its wise topographical and innovative landscape arrangements are well balanced, providing the authors’ aim of both making a manifesto and providing the site and the client’s necessities with an appropriate individual solution. The house has been used as a commercial space in recent decades, but it has been properly maintained and it is still in good shape.

scholarly journals Criminal Skins: Tattoos and Modern Architecture in the Work of Adolf Loos

2005 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 235-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jimena Canales ◽  
Andrew Herscher
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Less Is More ◽  
International Style

Adolf Loos’s famous essay, ‘Ornament and Crime’, decisively linked unornamented architecture with the culture of modernity and, in so doing, became one of the key formulations of modern architecture. To a great extent, the essay’s force comes from arguments drawn from nineteenth-century criminal anthropology. Nevertheless, Loos’s work has been consistently understood only within the context of the inter-war avant- gardes. In the 1920s, Le Corbusier was particularly enthusiastic in bringing Loos’s work to the fore, thereby establishing its future reception. ‘Ornament and Crime’ became an essential catalyst for architecture’s conversion away from the historicism of the nineteenth century to modernism. At the turn of the century, Loos’s essay already foreshadowed the white abstraction of ‘less is more’ architecture and the functionalist rigour of the International Style which would dominate the twentieth century.

scholarly journals Can we measure beauty? Computational evaluation of coral reef aesthetics

PeerJ ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. e1390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas F. Haas ◽  
Marine Guibert ◽  
Anja Foerschner ◽  
Tim Co ◽  
Sandi Calhoun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Coral Reefs ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Monitoring Tool ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Aesthetic Appearance ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Monitoring Protocols ◽  
Aesthetic Values

The natural beauty of coral reefs attracts millions of tourists worldwide resulting in substantial revenues for the adjoining economies. Although their visual appearance is a pivotal factor attracting humans to coral reefs current monitoring protocols exclusively target biogeochemical parameters, neglecting changes in their aesthetic appearance. Here we introduce a standardized computational approach to assess coral reef environments based on 109 visual features designed to evaluate the aesthetic appearance of art. The main feature groups include color intensity and diversity of the image, relative size, color, and distribution of discernable objects within the image, and texture. Specific coral reef aesthetic values combining all 109 features were calibrated against an established biogeochemical assessment (NCEAS) using machine learning algorithms. These values were generated for ∼2,100 random photographic images collected from 9 coral reef locations exposed to varying levels of anthropogenic influence across 2 ocean systems. Aesthetic values proved accurate predictors of the NCEAS scores (root mean square error < 5 forN≥ 3) and significantly correlated to microbial abundance at each site. This shows that mathematical approaches designed to assess the aesthetic appearance of photographic images can be used as an inexpensive monitoring tool for coral reef ecosystems. It further suggests that human perception of aesthetics is not purely subjective but influenced by inherent reactions towards measurable visual cues. By quantifying aesthetic features of coral reef systems this method provides a cost efficient monitoring tool that targets one of the most important socioeconomic values of coral reefs directly tied to revenue for its local population.

The Evolution of Architectonic Aesthetics in the Context of Globalization

2011 ◽  
Vol 250-253 ◽  
pp. 4026-4029
Author(s):  
Bai Ling Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Chinese Architecture ◽  
Pure Experience ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Individual

Research the evolution of architectonic aesthetics by concentrating on politics and economics in the background of Globalization. The accelerative modernization forces the individual aesthetic needs into the opposite, from which point out the evolution of the post-modern architecture can also be traced into the process from the deviation from astriction to sensibility then to the reflection on basic rationalism and at last to the aesthetic individualism. In conclusion, the trend of individualism, personalization and pure “experience” in architectonic aesthetics will continue its evolution and exert its influence on the development of Chinese architecture.

scholarly journals Architectural Theory and Analytic Philosophy in the Interwar Period

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
Borbála Jász
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Vienna Circle ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Language Of Science ◽  
Architecture Theory ◽  
The Aesthetic

Abstract The basis of the connection between analytic philosophy and architecture theory was developed in the interwar period. The results of analytic philosophy – especially the neo-positivism of Vienna Circle – and modern, functionalist architecture theory were utilized in an interdisciplinary approach. The comparison was based on language puzzles, science-based building processes, the method of justification and verification, and designing an artificial language in order to express the theoretical (philosophical) and the practical (architectural) approach as well. The functionality was based on the modern way of architectural thinking that relied on the results of Carnapian neo-positivism. Interpreting modern architecture is possible by referring to the keywords of logical positivism: empiricism, logic, verification, unity of language, and science. In my paper, I first list the bases of the comparison between the philosophy of the Vienna Circle and the architecture theory of the interwar period – the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier. In the 2nd and 3rd sections, I show the dialectical succession between form and function. After that, I discuss the aesthetic verification of the turn of the century and the scientific justification of the interwar period. I focus on the interwar period with the positivist approach and the theory of the ‘new architecture’. I emphasize the importance of the language of science and the machine paradigm – in contrast to historicism.

scholarly journals On the centenary of Zygmunt Janiszewski (1888-1920): ideals of mathematical practice and the constitution of continuum theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (18) ◽  
pp. 431-453
Author(s):  
Luis Carlos Arboleda ◽  
Andrés Chaves
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Practice ◽  
Continuum Theory ◽  
Axiomatic System ◽  
Intellectual Character ◽  
The Social ◽  
Polish School ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Values ◽  
Philosophy Of Mathematical Practice ◽  
Scientific Life

This paper shows the importance of applying a certain approach to the history and philosophy of mathematical practice to the study of Zygmunt Janiszewski's contribution to the topological foundations of Continuum theory. In the first part, a biography of Janiszewski is presented. It emphasizes his role as one of the founders of the Polish School of Mathematics, and the social, political and military facets in which his intellectual character was revealed, as well as the values that guided his academic and scientific life. Kitcher's view of mathematical practice is then adopted to examine the philosophical conceptions and epistemological style of Janiszewski in relation to the construction of the formal axiomatic system of knowledge about the continua. Finally, it is shown the convenience of differentiating in Kitcher's approach, the methods, procedures, techniques and strategies of practice, and the aesthetic values of mathematics. Keywords: Zygmunt Janiszewski; Continuum theory; Philosophy of mathematical practice; Polish school of mathematics.

scholarly journals Le Corbusier: publicaciones en Estados Unidos, 1925-1939

2020 ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Fernando Zaparaín Hernández ◽  
Jorge Ramos Jular ◽  
Pablo Llamazares Blanco
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
International Exhibition ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
The New York Times

Se recopilan y analizan las publicaciones, de y sobre Le Corbusier, en Norteamérica, en el periodo de entreguerras, que corresponde con la difusión inicial de sus ideas e incluye su participación en la Modern Architecture International Exhibition del MoMA en 1932, su muestra de pintura en la galería Becker en 1933 y el viaje con exposición de 1935. Durante esta época se consolidaron en Estados Unidos la estandarización industrial, la automoción o los fenómenos urbanos complejos, que atrajeron a Le Corbusier, y propiciaron allí el interés por sus alegatos sobre la máquina. Se aporta un listado actualizado, operativo y más completo, que permite hacer una mínima bibliometría, con 15 textos de Le Corbusier y 73 de otros autores. Muchos eran antiguos colaboradores (Rice, Frey, Stonorov) o admiradores en torno al MoMA, con Hitchcock a la cabeza (Kocher, Barr, Heap, Lescaze, Hood). Hubo alguna respuesta crítica de figuras como Wright, Fuller, Bauer o Mumford. Destacaron determinados medios e instituciones favorables (<em>Architectural Record</em>, <em>The New York Times</em>, The Studio, MoMA, Architectural League). En cuanto al formato, no se trata de estudios académicos ni metodológicos, sino alegatos breves y provocadores, con el hábil recurso a titulares e imágenes propias, en paralelo al texto. La temática principal no fue su obra construida, sino sus propuestas urbanas.

scholarly journals Decoding the Visual Characteristics of Chinese Painting Strokes-A Study on Gao Gu You Si Stroke

2021 ◽  
Vol 236 ◽  
pp. 05093
Author(s):  
Xue Hu ◽  
Eakachat Joneurairatana ◽  
Sone Simatrang
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Visual Design ◽  
Chinese Painting ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
Local Characteristics ◽  
Visual Characteristics ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The One ◽  
Aesthetic Characteristics

The architect Le Corbusier once said this theory: Design has local characteristics and universal characteristics. Local characteristics are greatly influenced by culture. The strokes are the one essence of Chinese painting that characteristics of the strokes are unique to Chinese visual culture. Among Chinese painting strokes, Eighteen Strokes are the typical representative of the aesthetics of Chinese visual culture. However, the current research on the cultural characteristics of Eighteen Strokes is insufficient. The objective of this article is taking Xie He’s Six Canons as the theory to decode the content of the aesthetic characteristics of the Gao Gu You Si Stroke (one of the Eighteen Strokes), then to get the visual cultural characteristics of Chinese painting strokes and the fundamental perspective characteristics of the inheritance visual cultural. Based on this, this article will use the Content Analysis Approach to conduct research, by decoding the aesthetic content of the Chinese painting strokes to construct the personality and characteristics required by Chinese visual design.

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