Architecture Essays

Title: How organic is Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architecture?
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Aug 2021
Introduction: Although Frank Lloyd Wright would be considered a practitioner that embraced much of what came to be known as modernism and the international style, itself a spare and functional movement, most of his work contains elements of the organic....

Title: Architecture Design of Religious Temples
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Aug 2021
Introduction: This dissertation attempts to deliberate upon specific issues relating to design in order to arrive on a solution on how a contemporary temple should look like....

Title: Performance Based Legislation and Building Control System
Example essay. Last modified: 29th Jul 2021
Introduction: The regulatory control system is also known by the terms, Building regulations, code or control. It can be called the bible of construction which contains the regulations and specifications for the construction standards....

Title: Community Architecture in the Global North and South
Example essay. Last modified: 26th Jul 2021
Introduction: Community architecture is based around the idea of ‘self-build’. There are various definitions by a number of key figures linked with the movement but the essence is the importance of user involvement in the design, construction, and management of a project....

Title: Difference Between Greek and Roman Architecture of Antiquity
Example essay. Last modified: 22nd Jul 2021
Introduction: The purpose of this essay is to identify the differences between the Greek and Roman architecture of Antiquity. Although Greek and Roman architecture have various similarities, it is important to identify the differences and the ways the Romans chose to adapt their influences....

Title: Modernist Architectural Design
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Apr 2021
Introduction: Modern architecture encompasses the implementation of novel technologies to design architectural styles. The rise of modernism is facilitated by the relationship between the internal arrangement and the rational outward countenance....

Title: Effects of Architecture on Littering and Vandalism
Example essay. Last modified: 31st Mar 2021
Introduction: How can architecture affect the behaviour of the public in order to curb the menace of littering and vandalism, hence maintain cleaner and healthier cities?...

Title: Sustainability of Urban Development in Bayrakli
Example essay. Last modified: 31st Mar 2021
Introduction: This document critiques the sustainability tendencies within a regeneration programme and their building clusters situated in emerging recent subcentres of metropolitan areas. Through this context, this document will observe and interrogate whether or not sustainable buildings are utilized as a means of strategic branding......

Title: Elements of Multi-Study Building Design
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Mar 2021
Introduction: Base isolation is a Passive structural control technique which has a collection of structural elements used to decouple the structure from its foundation resting on shaking ground and protects structure integrity...

Title: How Were Roman Temples Designed, and What Were Their Functions?
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Mar 2021
Introduction: Roman temples were the visual embodiment of Roman religion and were central to Roman life and the interactions between the Romans and their gods...

Title: Analysis of the Hermann Lange House by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Mar 2021
Introduction: Dr. Josef Esters and Hermann Lange, both directors of the Union of Silk Weaving and close friends, commissioned Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to construct two neighboring private houses and gardens between 1928 and 1930...

Title: Fran Lloyd Wright: Biography and Architecture Style
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Mar 2021
Introduction: The Wingspread house which was a commission of Herbert F. Johnson, the presidence of S.C. Johnson Et Son Company in 1937, when Wirght was underway of the construction to begin on the Fallingwater House....

Title: Development of Berlin's Urban Form
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Mar 2021
Introduction: Berlin has secured the status of becoming the capital city of Germany, and the third largest metropolitan region after Rhine Ruhr and Rhine Main...

Title: Benefits of Preservation of Buidlings through Adaptive Reuse and Sustainable Architecture
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Mar 2021
Introduction: How can the preservation of buildings through adaptive reuse and sustainable architecture benefit society and the planet while maintaining the importance of social well-being?...

Title: Role of Architecture and Design in Modern Society
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Dec 2020
Introduction: Through the case studies in this paper, I will be looking at how architecture and design in the built landscape can bring equality to areas such as, the housing crisis, renewing cultural growth and lack of sufficient educational facilities to marginalized Indigenous communities....

Title: The Relationship Between the Interior and Exterior Design of Zaha Hadid's Buildings
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Dec 2020
Introduction: Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid was well known for her amazing futuristic architecture by curving façades, sharp angles, and severe materials such as concrete and steel and created beautiful pieces of architecture Hadids highly expressive...

Title: Arne Jacobsen: Biography and Project Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Dec 2020
Introduction: This precedent study is a research paper about Arne Jacobsen. The paper will give an overview of Mr. Jacobsen’s life, and there will be an in-depth analysis of three of his projects that were created during his life-time....

Title: Influence of Public Health and Safety Matters in the City
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Nov 2020
Introduction: Towns are and were always associated with trade and power[R1]. Although towns as well as humans have to develop. They were formed and shaped by numbers of various factors. This essay would show how h...

Title: Overview of Victorian Architecture in London
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Nov 2020
Introduction: I will be focusing on two architectural styles, with each in different time period, which are Victorian Architecture and Arts & Craft Movement, and how each are known for its purpose in London, in terms of their feature, importance and changes to the society...

Title: Biography of Antoni Gaudi
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Nov 2020
Introduction: Antoni Gaudi was born in Reus, Catalonia in 1852, but for a majority of his life he was based in Barcelona where he studied architecture in 1878 at the Provincial School of Architecture. (Biography 2019) Prior to this, he served in...

Title: The Gothic Revival And The Greek Revival
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jun 2020
Introduction: The Greek Revival and the Gothic Revival are terms that carry specific meanings in relation to the history of architecture. What did they represent at the time and what was the nature of the conflict ...

Title: The Great Mosque of Samarra | Architecture and Religion
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: The great mosque of Samarra also known as the mosque of al-Mutawakkil began construction in 848/49 CE, with The Caliph Al-Mu’tasim moved the Abbasid capital from Baghdad to Samarra, and fin...

Title: Sustainable Practice in Architecture
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: O’Brien, Kesik and Athienitis define passive solar heating of homes as the process from which oncoming solar radiation from the sun is absorbed by glazed openings in a house then re-emitted int...

Title: Dome of the Rock: Architectural Style and History
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: For this assignment I decided to choose a shrine called the Dome of the Rock, which was built in Jerusalem. I chose this building because one of my friends went on her birthright trip to Jerusale...

Title: Style and History of the Barbican
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: The name of Barbican means fortification in English. It usually shaped like a square with four walls and four gates, one in each side, was being used as the outer defence of some ancient city. Ba...