The attention to detail was a critical matter for the Sydney Opera House project. The building was characterised – since…
Mies have an image as an idealist who built with great perfection, disregarding both function and cost. The Illinois Institute…
Mies van der Rohe in June 1929 starts to oversee the construction of Tugendhat House, just a month before he…
The twentieth century witnessed an overall transformation of the Alps landscape due to the construction of very high quality architectures.…
Modern Italian design, based on the abstraction of architectural shapes, the sophisticated manipulation of a linguistic code, continues to produce…
During the post-war reconstruction there was a fruitful exchange between the diverse disciplinary fields of architecture and engineering. Architects however…
Italy after World War II_part 1 In the course of the 20th century, the reconstruction years after the war and…
The prefabrication process in the building sector, initially applied only to industrial constructions, has been later used in almost every…
After the construction of Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, glass became a constituent part of a language enriched by many design…
The curtain wall originated with the introduction of frame construction (first steel and then concrete) which freed the building envelope…