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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect and a progressive theorist who made a great impact on Dutch designers of the De Stijl era during the years following the Second World War. He studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin, but he decided to stand out as an architect and went to Chicago in 1887.  In 1889 began working in the office of Dankmar Alder and Louis Sullivan. In 1896 he opened his own studio. He designed in 1900 a type of independent housing called "houses on the prairie", it is influenced by Japanese principles that guide the relationship between interiors and exteriors and the symbolism of spaces open. The main feature of the Prairie Houses was the emphasis on horizontal lines, asymmetrical planes, and natural materials such as wood. He wanted to create an "organic architecture". He has a concept about this architecture that is to create buildings that seem to have arisen from nature or landscape. He use furniture instead of w...

Swedish Design

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Introduction In the early 20th century, new Scandinavian nations emerged with entrepreneurs and politicians who wanted to create powerful, prosperous and industrialized states. There were people interested in this like intellectuals, social reformers, artists and architects. They rejected the vulgar and sumptuous Victorian interiors. Each of these people took care of something; some to guarantee the maintenance of the national culture that suffered the threat of the machines for their traditional crafts, others in the improvement of life of the poor population and others to promote new ways of life. At this time, rural culture, inspired by the countryside, is very important; in addition to great interest in preserving ancestral trades and rural crafts. The population feared the loss of their culture with the arrival of industrialization, therefore, societies and associations were created, which were in charge of collecting samples of popular crafts and encouraged people not to los...

¿Problemas o Virtudes?

¿Son realmente tus defectos un problema? Toda mi vida me llamaron olvidadiza, desastre... Pero, ¿realmente esos aspectos de mi vida solo causan conflictos? El olvido puede crear concentración. A lo largo de un proyecto importante olvidar ciertos eventos e incluso a ciertas personas te hace olvidar distracciones y problemas de tu día a día, te permite concentrarte 100% en el trabajo y dar lo mejor de ti. Lo bueno de estos "defectos" es que recorren la vida junto a ti y todas las verdaderas personas importantes los conocen, aceptan e incluso te ayudan a superarlos poco a poco. Sí, puede ser malo, pero también pueden ser buenos si sabemos utilizarlos a nuestro favor. Con esto llegamos al segundo punto, ¿desastre? Como futura diseñadora de interiores me opongo a considerar esto como ofensivo. La creatividad se presenta de muchas maneras y en mi caso una de ellas es el desorden, porque muchas veces preocuparse por el orden te aparta de tu labo...

Hi, my little world

My eyes Hi, my name is Shiro. I am studying third year of Interior Design. What is the Interior Design? In these studies you can learn how to create spaces and improve the lives of the people. All of us live in different spaces and we need to be comfortable in that places. So, this is our job. Probably, you do not know but our life turns around the spaces. The design can change our behaviour, our fillings and our decisions. Therefore, the Interior Design is an important profession, we can improve or worsen people's life. And we do not decorate homes, we do not move furniture. We design, we create special spaces with colours, lights and textures, but we always think about the clients, in their life and their real needs even if they do not know them yet. Some people think that design is not necessary or that they could do our job. However, you need a lot of information to do projects, you need to listen clients and understand their problems, because sometimes people d...

Levantina Kiosk

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This kiosk was created for the Cersaie fair, the ceramic materials fair most important in the world. This fair is celebrated in Bolonia, Italy. Techlam by Levantina showed an amazing kiosk. It was designed by Rocamora studio, an important studio of design and architecture of Alicante, Spain, in 2017. The kiosk present a rectangular size, with 125m2 of surface. It has 10 m of length, 5 m of width and 2,5 m of height. Therefore, we can see the relation between measures. The width is two times the height and the length is two times the height. On the other hand, the Levantina kiosk has organic forms in the interior. Furthermore, the interior of the kiosk is asymmetric. In addition, it has three different access, with a semicircular walk that is directed by furniture. The kiosk presents a reception desk where the clients can ask their question or speak with the staff for information about products o materials. Also, it has an exhibition zone with the most i...