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maestro architects
Le Corbusier, golden section and modular theory
By kurniawan on March 30, 2008
Le Corbusier is one of the architect maestro to the modern architecture. He tends to contribute in community live improvement to provide better living conditions. He was also an urban planner, painter, sculptor, writer, and modern furniture designer. Le Corbusier expanded and reformulated his ideas on urbanism.
Kenzo Tange and His High-Tech Masterpieces
By Andie Wicaksono on January 13, 2008
Professor Kenzo Tange was a Japanese maestro architect, famous by his impressive modern-structural masterpieces (later known by name “High-Tech” modern style). High Tech is architecture design style that exposed the building construction‘s structures as a part of the design aesthetic. Tange’s works including the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (1st place in design competition), Summer Olympics [...]
Renzo Piano, the Structure Maestro
By pak tukang on January 5, 2008
Renzo Piano is an absolute master of art, master of light and lightness. Renzo is a maestro architect. He understands well about construction, structures and the scale of pieces. Renzo Piano was born in Genoa, Milan, in 14th of September 1937, where he also had Building Workshop there. Renzo Piano was bom into a family [...]
Roger Trancik and Urban Spatial Design Theory
By Andie Wicaksono on January 4, 2008
Professor Roger Trancik is an urban designer and landscape architect. Trancik known as a professor in several studies, such as Cornell University, Landscape Architecture and City and Regional Planning Harvard University, Associate Professor of Urban Design 150th Anniversary Professor of Urban Design, Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden Professor-in-Residence, University of Colorado, Rome Program in [...]
Gordon Cullen and the Concice Townscape Theory
By pak tukang on January 4, 2008
Gordon Cullen (1914-1994) was a mastro architect. Gordon Cullen was an English architect,. an urban designer who carried on the of the Townscape movement theme. Later on he wrote and published the “Townscape” book in 1961. He was a key motivator and activist in the development of British theories of urban design in the post-war period. [...]
climate change »
The Impact of Climate Change: We Need to Act, Not Simply React
January 18, 2013
The effects of climate change including sea level rise, extreme heat, storm surges, threaten water supplies, and negative effects on the infrastructure. Climate change harms public health, as it will threatens human health and well-being in many ways, including impacts from increased extreme weather events, wildfire, decreased air quality, diseases transmitted by insects, food and [...]
Moral Responsibility »
Local Wisdom Principe as a Greenship (Rating Tool) for Building
September 28, 2012
Indonesia has abundant of natural resources in terms of renewable energy according to climate change, which has already mainstreamed in most of Indonesia’s policies. Meanwhile, lack of inter-department coordination, limited access to information, and poor policy implementation just become the main weakness. One of this poor policy implementation is greenship for building. Greenship as a [...]
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Review of Indonesian Cities from European Perspective
January 27, 2013
This review was to expose general issues of Indonesian cities filtered through a framework of European urban standards, which were represented in two models of urbanity developed by Jacques Levy. The framework consists in 14 factors, with each one of them able to feed a separate lecture. It was read across from several Indonesian cities [...]
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Times Square New York as a Public Place
August 28, 2012
There are a lot of interesting places near Times Square, since this city relying their income from tourism sector. The Times Square located at the heart of New York City, and this place is always crowded for 24 hours. Stores and shopping centers are open everyday, as well as restaurants and cafes, many of them [...]
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urban management »
Culture Industry & Indonesia’s Traditional Markets
June 7, 2009
Background: Traditionally, markets in Indonesia were not just places to trade goods and services, but also a place of cultural and social exchange. In the ancient days, markets open once a week (the Javanese calendar only has 5 days in a week; Pahing, Pon, Wage, Kliwon, and Legi) because the population was not as dense [...]
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Photograph of Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York
March 12, 2012
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (often referred to as “The Guggenheim”) was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, as one of the 20th century’s most important architectural landmarks, especially because it’s unique building shape (formed in spiral shape). The museum is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), on [...]
