Architecture Essays

Influences on Frank Gehry in the Construction of the Chiat Building
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Analyse how critics, such as Frederic Jameson, have analysed the postmodern era and how that may have influenced Frank Gehry in the construction of the Chiat building, Venice, Los Angeles ...

Scrap Tires as Seismic Isolation Material
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Abstract Nowadays, many techniques are invented to prevent structures from the damages caused by earthquakes but the most effective design is isolation technique. However, the technique ...

Are Neoclassical Buildings Fascist Architecture?
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Introduction: Are Neoclassical buildings Fascist architecture, and should the political foundations of a building besmirch the aesthetics and style of the design? Architecture should arguably take res...

Borromini’s Past and its Impacts on San Giovanni In Laterano
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Throughout the semester we have delved into the finest moments in Francesco Borromini’s architectural career. We’ve seen masterpieces constructed, inspirations flourish, enemies made, all enc...

The Impacts of Deconstructivism towards the Future of New Zealand Architecture Designs
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Introduction:   x Abstract: The Impacts of Deconstructivism towards the Future of New Zealand Architecture Designs The importance of this report is to introduce deconstructivism...

Contemporary Designed Landscapes: Chongae Canal Restoration Project
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Chongae Canal Restoration Project This essay will examine the Chongae Canal restoration project. A social, political and environmental project. What was a polluted waterway later covered...

Relationship Between Human and Nature and Design Strategies
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Introduction: Theory and Research for Design Research Text Introduction How long have you been disconnected from nature? What is the last time you walk within trees, barefoot outside...

Critical Regionalism in Singapore's Modernist Architecture
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Introduction: Examine modernist architecture in Singapore through the framework of Critical Regionalism by Kenneth Frampton. Abstract In today’s age of globalisation, the rest...

Adaptive Redesign for Jose Marti Park
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Due to climate change, global natural disasters are becoming more frequent and intense, sea levels rise, extreme weather and floods occur frequently, and become natural disasters, causing massive...

How Does the Architect Manage Risks in Projects by Using Contracts?
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: INTRODUCTION Architects should never underestimate the importance of risk management in their professional practices. In fact, contract is the single most effective tactic to help archit...

Dynamic Thermal Modelling of an Office Building
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Dynamic Thermal Modelling of an Office Building Executive Summary Virtual Environment (IES) was used to help improving the design of the building performance by developing sev...

Sustainable Architecture: Towards a Carbon Positive Earth
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Depending on the context, Architecture can be defined in multiple ways, for example, Residential Architecture is designing a house that not only acts as a second skin and provides shelter from t...

East façade of the Louvre in Paris
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: East façade of the Louvre in Paris, Claude Perrault The Louvre has been a long-standing architecture that represents the progression of time, a shift of power and politic movements, an...

Islam, Architecture, and Energy Consumption
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Islam, Architecture, and Energy Consumption Abstract. The rapidly diminishing fossil fuel reserves in the recent past have raised concerns over the high energy consumption by modern day...

Development of Chapel Design
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Stage 0 – Strategic Definition Traditionally religion has inspired people to create beautiful pieces of architecture, on a grand scale, from the cathedrals that stretch as cross Europ...

Tracing the Influence of Piranesi’s Paper Architecture
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Tracing the Influence of Piranesi’s Paper Architecture Kings Cross station was designed in 1851 – 1852 by the English civil engineer Lewis Cubitt. Cubitt designed the station un...

Technical Design Report for Selection Criteria of Buildings
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction:   You are working as an Architectural Technician for a large design practice and your employer has asked you to produce a ‘technical design report’ to be distributed t...

Sustainable Design in Via Verde
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Via Verde is a project that has embodied the progress and innovation of green design and healthy living. The positive impact Via Verde has had on the planet and people roots from the sustainable...

Designing Runway Headings and Length
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Runway Headings and Length   One of the most important aspects of airport design is the layout, orientation, and length of runways. In most cases, these are dictated by prevai...

Spaces of Consumerism: Airports
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Introduction   I will be discussing the consumer culture in reference to the different spaces of consumption of Stansted Airport and its only terminal, along with the cons...

Are Architectural Manifestos Important?
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Do you think that Architectural Manifestos are useful tools for Architecture? Why or why not? Be specific. Architectural manifestos are public declarations that are created in ...

Sound and Sensory Spaces in British Neolithic Burial Monuments
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: CC2: Illustrated Essay Explore how sound has been used to create ‘sensory spaces’ in British Neo  lithic burial monuments Explore how sound has bee...

Relationship Between Architecture and the Human Experience
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: ARCHITECTURE AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE. “Architecture and site should have an experimental connection, a metaphysical link, a poetic link” and “…if we consider the order (the idea) t...

Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland “The last battle of the colonized against the colonizer will often be the fight of the colonized against each other.” Franz Fanon...

Critical Regionalism, Interplay and Formalism
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Critical regionalism, interplay and formalism This essay discusses the inherently rich means of describing and thinking about architecture seen in Gadamer’s notion of interplay and Fr...