Tree houses offer a symbiosis with nature that we strive for in a society of bustling movement always on the go. A new reflection in architecture of this notion of hideouts and nestled places for individuals to retreat has become very popular. These new innovations offer up a romance with nature and a new appreciation for craftsmanship. Tree houses symbolize a childlike freedom from supervision, a fantasy of the world’s greatest living sculptures. Places of refuge offer the shelter a city dweller needs with the geographic location and the individual character. As children we are connected with nature and the more we become adults the more we will have a longing for nature. There is a self-realization in needing a private space for ourselves: a view of the sky, a piece of ground, a presence of nature and animals. A set of signs and images for a journey of self-realization is responding to us with establishing what our needs, and exposing ourselves to humanity as to what our needs are as such. The human begins to appear and we can see ourselves through the architecture. Tree houses act as a device within these ideas against the house of the future, how can these things exist, emerges through this idea of separating yourself from the outside world.
From ancient civilizations to the present day –the tree house has taken on many forms. The idea of a tree structure goes back to primitive times of humanity as one of the earliest forms of architecture. In his Natural History Pliny the Elder wrote of “the Emperor Caligula, who on an estate at Velletri was impressed by the flooring of a single plane tree, and benches laid loosely on beams consisting of its branches, and held a banquet in the tree.” In history monks used to build small houses in trees but it was the Renaissance that sparked the creation of spectacular, unimagined spaces. In his book Tree Houses, Anthony Aikman
"Into The Woods," is a mixture of Cinderella, Little Red Ridinghood, Jack In The Bean Stalk, Rapunzel, and The Baker and The Baker's Wife. It was held at the Springfield Theatre on Lawrence Street, on the eighth day of the tenth month of the year 2000. The plays were not separated in their own section the whole time. They mixed them all together most of the time. It was very interesting and entertaining. This musical was set in the woods (the whole time). Every skit was just like the original ones, but they put a little twist to them to make them funnier.
Trees, some of them a few thousand years old, have majestically stood on the face of the earth and have silently witnessed the evolution of human civilization. These trees are the living alibis of our pasts, magnificent markers of history. With their unusual shapes, enchanting legends and historical significance, some of these trees have become more than just giant trunks. Listing below ten such trees whose wooden hearts have amazing stories to tell!
This painting consists of three parts, with curving lines distinctly separating each of the parts. The foreground details a brick house with a thatch roof and a person walking along a path, the mid-ground depicts houses further away and the undulating greenery, and the background highlights the break between earth and sky with the tree line. The main objects in the Houses at Auvers are blocky houses, with a path cutting through the landscape and a person on the path. This...
Such like the House at Regensburg; aestheticism played a part but here it is interpreted in a different sense. Eames created an aesthetic effect that arose from the ‘careful juxtapositions of ready-made structural elements’. This can be seen from the webbed trusses, which are formed from reflections and transparencies. Where selected objects are a part of the architecture itself, as much as the building. The eucalyptus trees filter the light entering the house, only selecting judicious objects, which creates a unique effect for the interior of the house. The design of the house achieved a ‘poetry of form’, that were in a state of difference with the ‘absolution of Mies’.
In conclusion, Wright had successfully break through his vision of destructing a rigid boxy style of 19th century architecture and refined his idea of what a house should look like; to be in a harmony with nature. As been described earlier, with plenty of technical problems, he acknowledged young architects; even a house needs constant attentions (Stungo, N., 1999). Wright’s ideal of bringing human closer to the nature had inspired many architects until today, Wright to his students “Falling water is one of the great blessing to be experienced”. In point of fact, admirers of him never stop praised of his works; Cliff Hickman passionately said “I had never before seen anything so beautiful … Over and over I came back to look at the photograph of Fallingwater, the most illustrious of all Frank Lloyd Wright architectural masterpieces” (Hickman, C., n.d).
Architecture has always been an integral part of the society and its culture. It not only defines the space of the community that it participates in but it also shapes the community’s place in history. Moreover, historians all over the world have found architecture playing a key role while they study the communities in time periods. Architecture helps the historian decipher the civilization's daily life and the values they hold. The historians are able to decipher as such by looking at the recurring structural feature and ornamental feature of certain buildings of certain time period. Some of the significant feature of the building usually defines the political regime or the religious values of the civilization.
The boys in the neighborhood describes the relationship that relates to the sense of destruction through the symbol of trees, “like us, the girls [Lisbon sisters] has distinct memories tied to carious bushes, trees, and garage doors” (119). Form early on, the symbol of trees is portrayed as an important aspect that foreshadows the future. The girls give a warning or an introduction to reality that the neighborhood is going to fall into pieces and that their memories left behind, would be the girls who disrupted the peaceful utopia. However, the boys portrays them as girls who foreshadowed the future and woke everyone up to reality. This symbolic meaning of trees is carried through the end of the novel when “we got to see how truly unimaginative our suburb was, everything laid out on a grid whose bland uniformity the trees have hidden…” (237). The explanation of trees portrayed in this quote represents that the trees are like masks that hides the identity of the neighborhood. The neighbors are trying to hid the “unappealing” parts of the neighborhood and they begin working their hardest to preserve their peace once again by taking trees and letting them grow. However, the city takes over and all is lost in their plan to preserve peace, “the Parks Department continued to cut down trees, removing a sick elm to save the remaining twenty, removing another to save the remaining nineteen, and so on and so on…” (237). These trees being removed is the ultimate destruction that symbolizes the neighborhood being uncovered and revealing the reality to those who are protecting their children in this environment. As the parks department removes the trees because they are diseased, not only does mask of this peaceful utopia causing the neighborhood to deteriorate, but they also represent the Lisbon
Architecture has been known as the product of aesthetics, structure, and function that serves to address social needs, resolve environmental and humanitarian problems through built form. Architecture not only shelters, but also has the ability to consolidate boundaries within our society. It realizes the role by physically defining space and by imposing its symbolic, representative meaning onto our living environment. As Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, “Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something”. Indeed, architecture must be documentary and didac...
For any educator that is searching for a poem to arouse the interest of students enlisted in upper level literature classes, the poem “In the Orchard” by Muriel Stuart, written in the early twentieth century, conveys the ageless theme of unrequited love. The poem has all the elements of making students understand how far back the feeling of unrequited love has been around. We can understand these elements better through the rhetorical strategies.
The aim of this essay is to show that between Ancient Times and Modern Times the form of housing, as in a structure providing shelter, has not changed but the design and features aspect of housing has been changed by technology. The examples of Athens from 500BCE – 400BCE, Paris from 1850-1900 and Chicago from 1900-1930 have been chosen and a time period allocated to each geographical area which will give clarity to the argument and supporting evidence as there are a number of important technologies to be considered which impacted on the social, political and economic environments. In Athens I will pay particular attention to the study of houses within the polis, in Paris attention to tenement housing and in Chicago I will be looking at pre-fabricated houses. Using sources predominately from course...
Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier are two very prominent names in the field of architecture. Both architects had different ideas concerning the relationship between humans and the environment. Their architectural styles were a reflection of how each could facilitate the person and the physical environment. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, is considered one of the most important buildings in the history of American architecture and Le Corbusier s Villa Savoye helped define the progression that modern architecture was to take in the 20th Century. Both men are very fascinating and have strongly influenced my personal taste for modern architecture. Although Wright and Corbusier each had different views on how to design a house, they also had similar beliefs. This paper is a comparison of Frank Lloyd Wright‘s and Le Corbusier ‘s viewpoints exhibited through their two prominent houses, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House and Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye.
Most of trees are private property, but that does not mean that they are not part of the community also. Since trees are everywhere, there is a lot of planning that goes into the placement of trees so that they benefit everyone. Trees provide people with privacy for their homes and yards. Trees also serve an architectural function as well. Many architects use trees to improve the looks of a businesses and public areas to make people more at home.
The book as a description of modern architecture, its styles and influence succeeds but falls short as a prescriptive methodology. His work is still recalled for the need by modernists to categorize everything into neat little boxes, not necessarily for the sake of uniformity, but for sake of some ambiguity. The ambiguity may be the triumph of this book as post modern architecture era is supposed to create more questions than the answers.
In my memory, my grandparent’s house looks lively and surrounded by garden. The front door of the house was connected with the gate of the garden by cobblestone. Along both
As Nuttgens eloquently expressed, architecture is a “vital…expression of the experience of mankind.” It is more than just buildings used for storage, housing, religious purposes, simple functionality; it is a great manifestation of the commonality of man, the great connecting factor of humankind. However, it can be argued that the ancient and classic forms or architecture are in essence more “profound…lasting… [and] inexhaustible” than those of their modern counterparts, because of some key differences in the ways ancient and modern architecture are practiced.