The art of designing structures and buildings can be traced back thousands of years, with various styles, movements and cultural ideals influencing the practice over time. As different methods and dynamics of building became formalized, architecture began to develop throughout the world. The grand palaces of Europe, Pavilions of Japan and mosques of Byzantium stand as tenement to the grandeur of pre-modern architecture and design. Styles such as Gothic, Baroque, Classical, and Art Nouveau dominated the practice of architecture in the Western world, led by innovators such as Pierre Lescot, Inigo Jones and Antoni Gaudí.
In the beginning of …
The art of designing structures and buildings can be traced back thousands of years, with various styles, movements and cultural ideals influencing the practice over time. As different methods and dynamics of building became formalized, architecture began to develop throughout the world. The grand palaces of Europe, Pavilions of Japan and mosques of Byzantium stand as tenement to the grandeur of pre-modern architecture and design. Styles such as Gothic, Baroque, Classical, and Art Nouveau dominated the practice of architecture in the Western world, led by innovators such as Pierre Lescot, Inigo Jones and Antoni Gaudí.
In the beginning of the 20th century architects and designers began moving away from the elaborate, ornamental buildings of the previous centuries and towards industrial, technologically advanced forms. The Bauhaus school, founded in Weimar, Germany in 1919, redefined traditional notions of design and focusing on the amalgamation of art, craft, and technology. This shift grave rise to the various movements of modern architecture, and the careers of iconic draftsmen like Le Corbusier, Philip Johnson, Frank Gehry, Marcel Breuer, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
