The Fantasy of Architecture, Asia’s Ideal City
No Comments | April 12th, 2008

Two most significant urban prototypes produced by Modern Movement are Le Corbusier’s Ville Radieuse and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City - where every family with its own separate home on its own separate acre of land. Wright’s Broadacre City is a prescription for today’s suburbia on a bigger scale.
At first glance, these two prototypes appears [...]



Books
1 Comment | January 26th, 2008

Sorry for the lack of updates, was sick for the entire week, flu, sore throat, fever, running nose, you name it I’ve got it, possibly bird flu, SARS, mad cow disease and all the good things.
Falling sick means I’m a half dead zombie with plenty of time to spare and reading is the best activity [...]



Who pushed Frank Ghery to become an architect?
No Comments | July 19th, 2007

According to Wikipedia, as a child, Frank Lloyd Wright spent a great deal of time playing with the kindergarten educational blocks by Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel (known as Froebel Gifts) given to him by his mother, Anna Lloyd Jones, which pretty much explain why most of Frank Lloyd Wright’s building are in geometrical shapes.
Wright began [...]



Frank Lloyd Wright Falling Water
No Comments | July 14th, 2007

What if great ideas were not cherish? What if they carry no importance? or held no value?. Download the video, you’ll need VLC Media Player to watch the video from your computer.



The Challenge of Building Democracy in Architecture
3 Comments | January 4th, 2007

Frank Lloyd Wright was jailed for a day because of his comment on the federal building. I couldn’t agree more on what Frank Lloyd Wright said, no government building should emulate any past civilization and their architecture, federal buildings should make no specific ethnic reference. Democratic architecture is the keyword. Putrajaya in Malaysia is a [...]




     

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    Currently studying Architecture in Curtin University, Western Australia. Calvin loves web designing and photography, occasionally he blogs about his thoughts and opinions.

    Every morning he refill himself with weird energy-inducing substances known as coffee and tea and then off saving the world, I mean studying and blogging of course.

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