By: sofia - 23 November 2016, 15:49
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Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings and other physical structures. There’s no doubt that being an architect is a pretty important job. There’s little room for error, and everyone will probably notice and suffer the consequences of poor designing. Unfortunately, there are many architecture fails around the world but we have to admit they are kind of amusing.
We hope you enjoy this post about the worst architecture fails ever!
Being Handicapped In Cabo San Lucas Is Apparently An Extreme Sport
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Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings and other physical structures.
It's Even More Fascinating When Stuff Like This Happens In A Design School
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Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
In Case Of Fire
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Architecture has to do with planning and designing form, space and ambiance to reflect functional, technical, social, environmental, and aesthetic considerations.
Can't Touch This?
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It requires the creative manipulation and coordination of materials and technology, and of light and shadow. Often, conflicting requirements must be resolved.
Can you believe this?
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The practice of architecture also encompasses the pragmatic aspects of realizing buildings and structures, including scheduling, cost estimation and construction administration.
Built The Staircase Exactly As Designed, Boss
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Documentation produced by architects, typically drawings, plans and technical specifications, defines the structure and/or behavior of a building or other kind of system that is to be or has been constructed.
My Hotel Has A Sitting Area With No Possible Way To Access It
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The word "architecture" has also been adopted to describe other designed systems, especially in information technology.
This ATM Keeps You Fit
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The earliest surviving written work on the subject of architecture is “De architectura”, by the Roman architect Vitruvius in the early 1st century AD.
At Friends House For Summer Party. His Downstairs Staircase Does Not Actually Let You Get Into The Basement
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According to Vitruvius, a good building should satisfy the three principles of firmitas, utilitas, venustas, commonly known by the original translation – firmness, commodity and delight.
I Would Like To Meet The Planning Committee Who Approved This
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The notable 19th-century architect of skyscrapers, Louis Sullivan, promoted an overriding precept to architectural design: "Form follows function".
Hope You Picked Good Seats!
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While the notion that structural and aesthetic considerations should be entirely subject to functionality was met with both popularity and skepticism, it had the effect of introducing the concept of "function" in place of Vitruvius' "utility".
Right Here!
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"Function" came to be seen as encompassing all criteria of the use, perception, and enjoyment of a building, not only practical but also aesthetic, psychological and cultural.
The World's Worst Balcony
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Among the philosophies that have influenced modern architects and their approach to building design are rationalism, empiricism, structuralism, poststructuralism, and phenomenology.
Forgetting How To Architect
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In the late 20th century a new concept was added to those included in the compass of both structure and function, the consideration of sustainability, hence sustainable architecture.
You Had One Job, Architects
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To satisfy the contemporary ethos a building should be constructed in a manner which is environmentally friendly in terms of the production of its materials, its impact upon the natural and built environment of its surrounding area and the demands that it makes upon non-sustainable power sources for heating, cooling, water and waste management and lighting.
Best Hotel Room Window View Ever
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Building first evolved out of the dynamics between needs (shelter, security, worship, etc.) and means (available building materials and attendant skills).
This New University Building Looks Like A Giant Toilet
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As human cultures developed and knowledge began to be formalized through oral traditions and practices, building became a craft, and "architecture" is the name given to the most highly formalized and respected versions of that craft.
It's Just Up The Stairs
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It is widely assumed that architectural success was the product of a process of trial and error, with progressively less trial and more replication as the results of the process proved increasingly satisfactory.
This Pipe Was Bent To Go Around The Clock Instead Of Just Removing The Clock And Going Straight Up
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What is termed vernacular architecture continues to be produced in many parts of the world. Indeed, vernacular buildings make up most of the built world that people experience every day.
Found In A Newly Renovated Middle School
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Early human settlements were mostly rural. Due to a surplus in production the economy began to expand resulting in urbanization thus creating urban areas which grew and evolved very rapidly in some cases, such as that of Çatal Höyük in Anatolia and Mohenjo Daro of the Indus Valley Civilization in modern-day Pakistan.
