Tuesday, 23 April 2013

2 Architects

Charles Rennie Mackintosh
  • Buildings are not a machine for living but a work of art
  • Use of simple form and natural materials
  • Injection of humanism into architecture
  • Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but 'art' is the flower which embodies its meaning
  • Considered Britain's first designer of true Art Nouveau architecture

Ken Yeang

  • Ecologist first and architect second
  • Believes in vertical green urbanism
  • A locality's climate is probably it's most durably endemic characteristic
  • Best known as the inventor of the Bioclimatic Skyscraper and for his novel ideas on designing the high-rise building type as vertical urban design
  • Developing an aesthetic for ecodesign

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