Maison and Atelier is a museum located in Brussels, Belgium designed by the, devotee of Beligian Art Nouveau, Victor Horta. The museum is located in the private house and studio of Victor Horta (1861-1947).
The construction of the building started once permission from the municipality of Saint-Gilles was granted on September 28 in 1898 at 23-25 rue Américaine in Saint-Gilles, Brussels. By the end of 1899 the buildings outside balconies, staircase and the marble staircase, control bluestone sidewalk and the dining room (which was repointed from its original location) was completed. In 1900 the the stained glass, shutter and model bells where installed. The building was completed in 1901 before the doors for the dining room where then installed on January 1902. 1
Conversions then took place upon the building starting from the building being extended into the garden in 1906. Then an expansion to the basement of the workshop took place to improve the ventilation and lighting in 1908. Then from 1915-1919 another conversion took place on part of the ground floor of the workshop in the garage. The museum was officially opened in 1969 after municipality of Saint-Gilles purchased the building once again. 1
The two buildings reflect the work of typical Art Nouveau at its peak. The interior contains mosaics, stained glass and wall decorations forming a harmonious and elegant whole, down to the last detail. This particular museum is famous for containing splendid Art Nouveau interior and open plan characterization which was created by Victor Horta. he building shows one of the great innovations of Horta: the rooms are built around a central hall. From the stunning glass ceiling light falls into the house and thus creating a much more n...
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...s show a reduced structural logic due to esthetical considerations, Horta succeeds in developing his design choices by improving the relevance of these structural concepts. In his oeuvre, the architect learns to take advantage of the ambiguity between architectural, esthetical and structural issues in order to design structures where the form of the material is governed by structural needs. We can conclude that this significant structural innovativeness of iron practice clearly proves the importance of the architectural heritage conceived by Victor Horta, the greatest international figure of the Art Nouveau architectural trend. We can conclude that Victor Horta studies to take gain of the uncertainty between architectural, esthetical and structural issues in order to scheme structures where the prescribed language of the material is a result of its structural needs.
...k of the former mayors of the town, the same priest Ariceaga promoted the construction of a formal, same Chapel began in 1730 and was completed in 1747; and from 1748 mass, the doctrine to children and the Feast was celebrated in it. In 1753 the chapel consisted of 26 meters long and 8 wide. It had all the ornaments and the implements necessary to celebrate the mass, and had sacristy, House and cemetery, with a length of 17 meters by almost 9 of bandwidth. The introduction of the railway affected the whole of the main square and the appearance of the temple, and in 1955 was covered the facade original; soon after stood up a fence on the edge of the sidewalk and the temple was isolated. In 1961 it was erected in a Vicariate and in 1965 it was given the shape it has today, after being constructed the façade and the gateway to the East; in 1976 he erected in parish.
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The purpose of this Essay is to discuss an example of design from the late 1800s, I will relate it to the social, economic, technical and cultural context of that time. . I intend on delivering details of the artist and his life experiences as well as his style and possible interests. I will also evaluate the subject with my own opinion, likes and dislikes, with comparisons of work and artists from within that period up to the present date
Leniaud, Jean-Michel and Francoise Perrot. The Sainte Chapelle. Paris: Centre des monuments nationaux, 2007. Print .
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Gehry, Frank.O. “Gehry residence, Santa Monica, California, 197779; architect: Frank O. Gehry & Associates,” GA houses, no.6 (1979): 73.
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