Wednesday, 11 June 2014

RELATIONS BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY

The architecture has joined the lastest technologies to give as a result a sustainable and secure architecture. This is afirmed for example in anti-seismic movements buildings or "intelligent" houses, those with electric blinds, video camaras...

The society is eager to receive new technological miracles. The modern architecture did not appears until the 20th century. The last technological advances of the modern architecture to construct buildings more rapidly, cheaper, more lasting and  spectacular. With modern architecture, the interior and exterior appearance of buildings change, to adapt to the tastes of the 21th century, skyscrapers, the cubic houses...
Dynamic tower of Dubai

Wednesday, 4 June 2014

ARQUITECTURE, THEN AND NOW

 Ancient architecture is characterized by the use of carved stone masonry blocks, with lintel construction system and robust columns , producing kinetic energy. Fo example , the pyramid of Giza was built with 2.3 million blocks of stone.  Egyptians took to the built approximately 20 years with an incredible accurancy with only a stone and chisel , without the use of technology.
 After the construction of the pyramid have to dig equivalent to six football fields field  Today, the building would be a challenge to build the pyramid with precision and only tweenty years, even using the most advanced technologies.

 Today the construction of a building that we have to dig the earth with bulldozers powerful, then fill it with concrete footings surface , it blocks and concrete ceilings of each floor rise, with a tower crane .  Now teams work to hollow walls with bricks and cement mortar.  Then they raised the partitions.  Finally , complete with facilities (water , gas ...) and finished

MATERIALS' EVOLUTION

Pyramid of Giza, Egypt.




The architecture is considered as the art and science of designing and constructing buildings, which began in prehistoric times, when men built the first cabins of reeds and mud. The construction industry is, in all countries, an indicator of the economic development and an evidence of its evolution. The development of the construction has always been linked to the availability of materials, in fact, evolution can be analyzed considering only how buildings are built. The construction work was carried out during thousands of years with two materials: stone and clay bricks. The Great Pyramid of Giza (2560 BC) was for centuries the tallest structure in the world. In ancient Mesopotamia people worked with other materials: brick, the first cities were built with this. In Rome an impressive advance was achieved with other material; powder mixed with water, which turned to stone: pozzolan. The next step was the incorporation of iron in the construction, with the following work: the Crystal Palace. The Neoclassicism, Baroque, Gothic and Rationalism were some of the architectural styles with the greatest changes in history. The most used construction materials: gypsum, cement, sand, mud, iron, bricks, clay, stones including limestone ...
Around 90s in Western cities will appear many movements that will value the new and original things. Modernism and Functionalism were two cheerful and colorful currents which were based on the use and adaptation of materials that were developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Some cities, mainly in the southern hemisphere, are growing at an exponential rate. In the south, the population continues to grow much, while in Europe, Russia and North Asia are declining.