Australia’s diverse landscape largely impacts on the design of buildings for public use. Two exceptional examples of this include The North Bondi Surf Club, designed by Architects Durbach Block Jaggers in association with Peter Colquhoun, which was completed in late 2013 to mixed reviews from the public. Whilst The Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum Reception Centre, located in Winton (Queensland), was designed by Cox Rayner Architects. This building was completed with positive reactions, in 2009.
Standing along side one of the most famous beaches in the world, The North Bondi Surf Club was designed to complement the surf, as well as provide significance in architecture along Bondi, increasing the precedent for architecture with a style deviating from existing architectural structures. The use of a ‘dip’ and curves in the design relate directly to the water, waves and coastline that make Bondi. The external use of tiles to coat the building represent the ocean and sand, through colour, texture and the way they ‘catch the sun and create a shimmer effect - much like that of the water....
“Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of our Era”, “‘Plug In’ Better: A Manifesto”, and “Your Brain on Computers”: A Critical Analysis of the Efficacy of the Methods by which the Authors Convey Their Ideas
In this essay I will discuss what I’ve learned about Australian architecture, a brief history, and most of all, a major influence to the Australian style, Harry Seidler. Australia is a country that has only been around almost 100 years, a short time compared to other countries like America that has been around for almost 200 years. With Australia being a young country, it’s easy to see that it is still discovering the Australian style. In 1890 the architect James Izett and Howard Joseland raised the question, ‘What, in the first place, must guide us in the development of an Australian type (Johnson 1980, p. 2)?’ Both seemed to believe that climate was the answer. Another man named James Green thought that public and urban buildings should be seen as one style and domestic architecture as another. A popular view was that the old, ‘conservative’ Bri...
In our The Poison of Unforgiveness piece, I collaborated with my peers in contriving the concepts of our work and incorporating our gifts and talents to compose an exceptional presentation. Although I was unable to pick exactly who I worked with, I am more than overjoyed to have had the opportunity to work with Cynthia, Gabrielle, and Tammisha to create “The Poison of Unforgiveness”. Particularly, I appreciate them so by virtue of the idea that even before we seriously began planning the presentation, we frequently engaged in discourse about the critical concepts discussed in class — in order to foster maximized understanding and connectivity to each other and the concepts. Working with these girls has been nothing short of amazing because
Both passages concern the same topic, the Okefenokee Swamp. Yet, through the use of various techniques, the depictions of the swamp are entirely different. While Passage 1 relies on simplicity and admiration to publicize the swamp, Passage 2 uses explicitness and disgust to emphasize the discomfort the swamp brings to visitors.
The aim of this paper is to explore and critically analysing two research articles. The critical analysis will explain the importance of the study, evaluate design and research method used in those articles. To identify any gaps it will provide the literature review in those researches and possibility for the new study. The project plan, for the possible research will be developed on a potential gaps and the essay will finish with the conclusion.
Foucault discusses the whole idea of power stressing much on the positions of those people who hold power in any societal setting and how they relate with their subjects to try and ensure that the power is exercised effectively without abandoning or neglecting a section of the subjects being ruled. He also discusses the issue of sex and connects it to power giving details of how sex and politics interrelate. Foucault, in his discussion, gives a detailed analysis on the relationship between power and objectives that those holding power seek to achieve in the long run. He goes ahead to describe the tactics that those in power and generally politics need to employ in order to realize results in view of both the governors and the governed. In his
Nicola Chiaramonte stated in her review of Albert Camus’ literary works that he was born during the time of turmoil at the beginning of the First World War, then came the Depression and Hitler and finally the Second World War. “The world in which he grew up was a strugPatrick Moser in his criticism about Albert Camus explains, in part, the title of The Stranger. “If we are able to refuse the misleading aid of religion or of existential philosophies, we then possess certain basic, obvious facts: the world is chaos, a ‘divine equivalence born of anarchy’; tomorrow does not exist, since we all die. ‘In a universe suddenly deprived of light and illusions, man feels himself a stranger. This exile is irrevocable, since he has no memories of a lost homeland and no hope of a promised land’” (Moser).
James F. O'Gorman, Dennis E. McGrath. ABC of Architecture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Document. October 2013.
In all, both the Glasgow Art Building and the Goldman-Schwartz Art Building have a surprising number of similarities. Although they are located on two different continents, the styles are remarkably similar especially considering their function. Their similar goals to promote creativity by designing an open and free environment are perhaps, the most significant and interesting features of the structures. By comparing these features, it gives an indication of the serious dedication to art that has existed across the world regardless of history.
But these contrived differences give rise to esthetic difficulties too. Because inherent differences—those that come from genuinely differing uses—are lacking among the buildings and their settings, the contrivances repre...
Espen Aarseth is the author of Playing Research: Methodological approaches to game analysis, and Aarseth’s main idea is to promote a methodology for the aesthetic study of games which in turn will provide more advanced approaches for the years to come. We need to look from different perspectives, why do we do it, and who we are. Aarseth looks at the styles of play, and player strata in games which help with our approach to game analysis.
In developing this contemporary and iconic building, the design focuses on practical attributes and optimises energy efficiency. The design strategy encapsulates four key aspects:
However, architecture is not just the future, after all, buildings are intended to be viewed, traversed and lived by us, people. Despite this, many architects today rarely think deeply about human nature, disregarding their main subject matter in favour for efficiency and an architecture of spectacle. In this there seems to be a misconception that underlies much of architecture, that is, human’s relationship with the city, the building and nature. In much of today’s architecture, people are treated with as much concern much as we treat cars, purely mechanically. The post-modern search for the ‘new’ and ‘novel’ has come to disregard the profound affect design has on our lives, impacting our senses, shaping our psyche and disposition.
In Horkheimer’s “Traditional and Critical Theory”he begins with the question “What is theory?”. He explains how theory is something that should be based on fact and should not conflict with facts. He also makes the point that experiences should line up directly with theory, and if they do not one should be re-examined. A theory is a set of propositions that are only true if they equally match with the object they represent. In this essay he makes a distinction between traditional and critical theory. He begins by making the claim that the type of theory used in natural sciences is traditional theory. Traditional theory is mainly focuses on the things that are true or things that can be agreed upon, experiences are not heavily weighted. Like natural sciences, these things are without contradiction, they are facts. Social theory on the other hand is less concerned with facts and more with reason. In this essay I will be examining the distinction between the two in the social sciences and why Horkheimer feels this distinction is important.
In his essay Critical Thinking: What Is It Good For? (In Fact, What Is It), Howard Gabennesch explains the importance of critical thinking by drawing attention to how its absence is responsible for societies many ills including, but not limited to, the calamity in Vietnam. Yet, at the end of his essay, Gabennesch also mentions that, despite “the societal benefits of critical thinking, at the individual level, uncritical thinking offers social and psychological rewards of its own.”(14). Similarly, it is these rewards that, like the bait on a fishhook, often make individuals hesitant to engage in critical thinking despite the resulting harm to both them and society.