Hector Guimard was a French architect, who is now the best-known representative of the Art Nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Category: Architecture
Centre Georges Pompidou
Popidou Center was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, along with Gianfranco Franchini.
Reusable Universes: Shih Chieh Huang
“Reusable Universes” is a group kinetic sculptural, Shin Chieh Huang uses technology and materials of modern life to transform mundane manufactured objects into novel and remarkably complex sculptural forms.
Albany – NY
Albany is the capital of the U.S. state of New York.
The Empire State Plaza, a collection of state agency office buildings, dominates almost any view of Albany. Built between 1965 and 1978 at the hand of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and architect Wallace Harrison, the complex is a powerful example of late American modern architecture and remains a controversial building project both for displacing city residents and for its architectural style.
Terracotta Army
Terracota Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife.
Santiago – Chile
Santiago- During the beginning of the XIX, it was intended to create an architecture that would agree with the republican values of the country, architects from Europe (especially France) were brought to design a city that would agree with the era. Continue reading “Santiago – Chile”
Arica – Chile
Arica is Chile’s northernmost city, being located only 18 km south of the border with Peru. Arica is an important port for a large inland region of South America. The city serves a free port for Bolivia and manages a substantial part of that country’s trade. Continue reading “Arica – Chile”
Catedral de San Marcos de Arica
The Gothic style St. Mark’s Cathedral is located in the city of Arica.The building was commissioned by the government of Peruvian President José Balta to the workshops of the French Gustave Eiffel .
Basilica de San Francisco – La Paz, Bilivia
Villa Vizcaya – Miami
Villa Vizcaya, is the former villa and estate of businessman James Deering, of the Deering McCormick-International Harvester fortune.
The early 20th century Vizcaya estate also includes: extensive Italian Renaissance gardens; native woodland landscape; and a historic village outbuildings compound. The landscape and architecture were influenced by Veneto and Tuscan Italian Renaissance models and designed in the Mediterranean Revival architecture style, with Baroque elements. Paul Chalfin was the design director.
