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Concrete Building In India: Completed in 1942, Golconde was the first reinforced, cast-in-place concrete building in India and clearly celebrates the modernist credo: architecture as the manifest union of aesthetics, technology, and social reform.
Espousing radical economy and uncompromising construction standards, it proposes environmental sensitivity as a foundation for the design process.Completed in 1942, Golconde was the first reinforced, cast-in-place concrete building in India and clearly celebrates the modernist credo: architecture as the manifest union of aesthetics, technology, and social reform.This exhibition assembles construction drawings, architects' letters and journals, and extensive photographs of this extraordinary building.See Also Explore The Building Materials:This year, the competition will focus on public buildings in the coastal environment of Southern California.Students entering Challenge 1 will design an Environmental Museum and Interpretative Center and students entering Challenge 2 will design a Park Office and Snack Bar.Both buildings will be located in the new Orange County Great Park, in Irvine, California.The competition objectives are to encourage and reward excellence in architectural planning and design that integrates environmentally responsive design strategies.Competition participants will have the opportunity to explore energy efficiency as a basic standard of building design, incorporate principles of sustainability in the choice of building materials, water use, building design, and building site, investigate new building materials & methodologies that
But how does someone decide to 'go green' and what exactly does that mean?The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design is a ground-breaking exhibition which will examine new developments in green technology and products.The exhibition will explore the building materials, consumer products, and energy systems that offer attractive and often affordable sources of the latest in home building technology and products.
On The Other Hand See Building Fa็ades:Active Fa็ades : A New Medium?Building fa็ades and walls are changing before our eyes, reacting with apparent intelligence to the news, the weather-even our physical proximity to the structures.Some announce the activities they contain or the building's use and occupancy ("open to the public," for example, or "home team plays tonight"), in ways both transcendent and trite.Others play games literally with the outside world, tricking the eyes of passersby or treating invited parties to both dialogue and diversion.
Macaulay's unique brand of visual archeology not only peels back exterior fa็ades and interior walls to reveal what is beneath them, but his drawings show us how a building is designed and constructed from the ground up, making the inaccessible, accessible.This exhibition will feature Macaulay's original architectural drawings from Cathedral (1973), City (1974), Pyramid (1975), Underground (1976), Castle (1977), Unbuilding (1980), Mill (1983), Building Big (2000), and most recently, Mosque (2003).
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