The study selected the Eames famous design to talk about the impact of the social. Firstly, I will introduce the Eames’ background. Secondly, I will introduce some of their futures. Thirdly, I will talk more about the Eames house. Finally, I will talk about what I had inspired from them.
If good design is the collision of creativity, hard work and a bit of serendipity, then the Eames' design can proudly bear the title.
Charles and Ray Eames are well-known for their assistance to furnishings and developed conceive, movies, exhibitions, playthings and architecture. They approached difficulty explaining as an excursion, combining control and respect with a sense of play. Simultaneously with the multi-talented Eames Office staff, the two sets a benchmark for conceiving excellence that still motivates current generations. For more than four decades, American designers Charles and Ray Eames assisted form almost every facet of American life. From their architecture, furnishings, and textile concepts to their taking photos and business conceive, the husband-and-wife group exerted a deep leverage on the visual character of daily life in America, whether at work or at home. Their pioneering use of new materials and technologies, especially plywood and plastics, transformed the way Americans furnished their homes, inserting purposeful, inexpensive, and often highly sculptural things and furniture to numerous middle-class Americans.
Charles Eames was born in 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri. He interested in engineering and architecture. He worked in an architectural agency after his university. In 1929, he wed his first wife, Catherine Woermann (they divorced in 1941), and a year subsequent Charles’ only progeny, daughter Lucia was born. In 19...
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... well known or well known or treasured by people, the Eames House exists for most as a snapshot of when they first came across it. But, in detail, it went through a fair amount of transformation.
The house was requested as a part of the Case Study dwelling Program, sponsored by Arts and Architecture Magazine, publisher John Entenza. One of the goals of the case study program was to find ways to dwelling the GIs who was anticipated to deluge America after World conflict II. In the program, every dwelling had a hypothetical purchaser. In the Eames House, Charles and Ray made sure they were the purchaser, thus the dwelling was conceived for a working couple with developed young kids, who required a studio space and a dwelling space.
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Wikipedia http://www.eamesfoundation.org/ http://www.eamesoffice.com http://www.eamesprimer.com http://www.metmuseum.org/
family was they had three-rooms which were placed on a hill facing the "Big House". The
She is widely credited with developing the style of interior decoration known as “American Country Style”. Sister never knew her grandmother because she died shortly after she was born, but she recalls her grandparent’s house as “large, dark and musty and full of polar bear rugs, moose heads and antlers everywhere”. Her parents were wealthy and spent a considerable amount of money on trips to Europe, in hope that the exposure of art and architecture would improve their children’s education. Her style has been called baroque and freewheeling.
These houses were engineering marvels for their time. While everyone in Europe was building castles, the Native Americans of the area we live in today were building houses which were efficient and strong. While these houses do not exist today, there are many sites which you can go and visit which have reconstructed the structure of a longhouse for you to go inside and take a look around. I was privileged enough to live within five minutes of one and have seen these impressive structures. Without these structures, there is no way that these people would have been able to survive the harsh climate that New York has in the winters.
The story is set 76 years into the future and gives a sense of wonder. The house has it’s own voice and personality. It is a technological marvel and more advanced than the average house today. Bradbury uses personification at first glance to
For Upton, “architecture is an art of social story telling, a means for shaping American society and culture...” (11), and it is up to the historian to choose which of many possible stories to tell. In his approach, he refused a chronological order and relied instead on five thematic structures: community, nature, technology, money and art. In the very first chapter, Upton introduces the symbol of the house in the United States; it represents the American dream and the concept of social mobility. He analyzes one of the most famous houses: Monticello, designed by Thomas Jefferson. In describing how this house served as a home for not only family members and numerous visitors, but for slaves as well, Upton proposes that Jefferson “organized Monticello to convey his sense of himself as the patriarch at the centre of his universe” (28).
Interior Decorators such as Elsie de Wolfe, Eleanor McMillen Brown, and Dorothy Draper helped to pave the way for the Interior Design profession today. Their influential decisions to stray away from the Victorian style of design helped guide both the interior decorating profession, as well as architects who no longer wanted to design in the bulky and cluttered Victorian Style. Elsie de Wolfe designed during the Victorian movement, however “had adopted the 1890’s preference for Neoclassicism” (Smith, 22). Unlike the cluttered and dark interiors of an average Victorian interior, her interiors were, “in the words of one visitor, ‘[models] of simplicity’” (Smith, 20).
The scene Alice's suicide from the movie The Last of the Mohicans is a vital and intricate scene of the movie that amplifies the artfulness and emotion of the story. In the scene, Alice, a British officer's daughter, jumps to her death off a cliff after her love, a Native American man named Uncas, is killed by Magua. Alice, in a treaty offered by the chief of Magua's tribe is promised in marriage to Magua in order to satisfy the death of Magua's children to re-establish his blood line. Alice's suicide scene from the last of the Mohicans offers a glimpse into how film production lighting, setting, costumes and hair and makeup work in cohesive unity to express the director's vision of the films mise-en-scene
Pile, J. F., 2005. A History of Interior Design. 4th ed. Toronto: Laurence King Publishing.
It will discuss the different types of dwellings throughout recorded human history from the perspective of how art and culture influences building design. This will fulfill my own curiosity to understand the different influences on homebuilding and design over the years and how people have dealt with these changes.
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’.
Upon renovating the quaint little house on the hill with my mom, my own feelings toward the house changed dramatically. Before the project took off, I hesitated to step foot inside the building. The odor and dim lighting made it difficult to envision a successful result, but once we finished I was tempted to move in myself. This is the goal. Taking on this second project, I’d do my best to make the house one I’d love to live in while not allowing myself to implement my personal style preferences. The result is a home both move-in ready and open for visitors.
The definition of universal design was coined in 1985 by Ron Mace, an architect and founder of the Center for Universal Design. Universal design is “the design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design” (Steinfeld, 1988). There are seven principles that are followed when creating with universal design in mind: equitable use, flexibility in use, simple and intuitive design, perceptible information, tolerance for error, low physical effort, and size and space for approach and use (Duncan).
Buying and owning your home is part of the American dream. Although the dream itself has since changed, the home still remains the main focal point. Today owning a home doesn’t necessarily mean a house. People now buy duplexes, cooperative apartments, and condominiums. For some families it could take up to a couple of generations before it’s able to have the capabilities of buying a home. To many people it means a certain achievement that only comes after years of hard work. It is a life altering decision and one of the most important someone can make in their lifetime. The reasons behind the actual purchase could vary. Before anything is done, people must understand that it’s an extraneous process and it is a long term project.
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.
The feeling of security that was so pure. It became a reminder of a time when everything was simple and it was so easy to find happiness in the most unexpected ways. I remember considering myself lucky whenever my mother would indulge in my pleas to play the piano. Never would have I thought that listening to the notes of “Send In the Clowns” or a song from Forrest Gump could give me so much joy. Another fond memory was our parents allowing my siblings and I to play in the rain. Being given permission to do so was already a big thing for us. To be able to enjoy such a simple act is something I hold unto. This house is the symbol of my childhood innocence and a life unmarred by worries. This is the place where I 've felt contentment in its most basic