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In this article, we will explore traditional Arabian courtyard houses and how their unique architectural features were reimagined in modern contexts.
Copy After being shut down for more than a year, museums across the world are beginning to show signs of reopening. Most architecture and design events that were scheduled for 2020 have been pushed a year or two, depending on the severity of the pandemic in their respective regions. But while museums are open to the public once again, administrators have installed numerous precaution measures to ensure the safety of visitors and curators, and to avoid potential re-closures. As international travels have been revived by government officials, and tourism is expected to recover gradually, read ...
Created: July 2008, monument unveiling; March 26, 2011, photograph Medium: Public monument; digital photograph Civil Rights Memorial in Richmond Barbara Johns, a young Black civil rights protester, steps forward with her arm raised at the center of a section of the Civil Rights Memorial located on the grounds of the Virginia State Capitol. At the age of sixteen, Johns conceived and led a student walkout at the all-Black Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville to protest the inadequate facilities and opportunities at the segregated school. Behind her stand members of the Black community, i...
Copy The Marin County Civic Center was Frank Lloyd Wright's last commission and largest public project, including several civic functions that would serve Marin County and San Francisco, which after the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge became closer than ever. Wright was selected for the project in 1957, winning a vote out of hope he would be able to best represent a democratic government open to the people through the Civic Center. In April 1958 Wright's project was approved, and the architect submitted his set of concept drawings exactly a year later. Upon his death, his protege Aaron Gree...
© Flickr User: Vincent Desjardins Text description provided by the architects. After World War II, the need for housing was at an unprecedented high. The Unite d’Habitation in Marseille, France was the first large scale project for the famed architect, Le Corbusier. In 1947, Europe was still feeling the effects of the Second World War, when Le Corbusier was commissioned to design a multi-family residential housing project for the people of Marseille that were dislocated after the bombings on France. © Steve de Vriendt Completed in 1952, the Unite d’ Habitation was the first of a new hou...