Research both architectural structures in order to comment on;
-the importance of the design and construction
-significance of the materials
-significance of the designer
-function for which each was built
-function now-has it changed?
The importance of the design and construction
1. The Eiffel Tower was built by engineer Gustave Eiffel in 1889. The design of this building is important because it was the tallest building in the world until 1930. It has been used as a icon status over the many years from movies, advertisement especially. It is the acknowledged as a symbol of Paris, and often even used as a symbol for all of France. The construction of the Eiffel Tower was huge achievement in his career and was said to only stand for twenty years but is still standing to this day.
2. The importance of the Guggenheim Museum is literally the internal and external design of it.. The intension they had was for being "to the same quality as its contents, with an equal importance to the artworks it would house." This means it wasn't just a building/museum with art work in it it was a piece of artwork itself. They designed this building with a Computer Aided Three Dimensional Interactive Application, a digital design software.
Significance of the materials
1. The Eiffel Tower was built from wrought iron or in other words puddle iron of the highest quality, it was a higher class of steel. Gustave Eiffel thought that wrought iron was suitable to build the tower because of its affordability, it's flexibility and its strength. It needed to be a material that was very strong and so it could hold up through conditions.
2. The Guggenheim in Bilbao was built using a merging mixture of glass, steel frame and sinuous stone, and titanium. This specific titanium is only half a millimetre thick they used a state of the art digital design program that made it so exclusive. The contrasting shaped exhibit in the museum have all been made up using concrete, with "curved and twisted" walls.
Significance of the designer
1. Eiffel was being founded a company that specialised in "structural metal work" as an engineer. Building construction of the Eiffel tower was the company's biggest achievement. Although Gustave Eiffel's liked structural work his favorite practice was bridge building.
2. Frank Gehry is the principal of the architechture firm Frank O. Gehry and associates. He has won a number of awards for his successful designs. His designs are often out standing and different from other peoples ideas. Which fitted criteria for the Guggenheim quite well and lead him across to be employed to design the museum in Bilbao.
1. The Eiffel tower was a big attraction in 1889 as a world fair that was to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the french revolution. The tower was said to stand for only twenty years, but Gustave Eiffel researched and motivated scientific experiments to extend this, which in other words to keep it standing. Today it is a huge icon in paris, is a tourist attraction and is used for some radio and tv communications.
2. The Guggenheim was built to display art work for the public and the community to see and has stayed the same till today.
Similarities
The Eiffel Tower and the Guggenheim are both big tourist attractions to the world. They both had materials used during the construction that were curvy and made it hard for the designers to achieve but wanted still decided to achieve for its uniqueness.
Differences
The designers for both building were from totally different backgrounds and specialized in different areas. Eiffel was an engineer who specialized in structural work with metal, and Gehry was an architect. Which then showed as an end result. The Eiffel Tower was more planned out, direct and looked a lot more mathematical and the Guggenheim looks although it wasn't it looked sort of unplanned or is a lot more trendy as the structure was built.
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0213201/Eiffel%20tower.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower
http://www.tour-eiffel.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao
http://www.guggenheim.org/bilbaol
2. The importance of the Guggenheim Museum is literally the internal and external design of it.. The intension they had was for being "to the same quality as its contents, with an equal importance to the artworks it would house." This means it wasn't just a building/museum with art work in it it was a piece of artwork itself. They designed this building with a Computer Aided Three Dimensional Interactive Application, a digital design software.
Significance of the materials
1. The Eiffel Tower was built from wrought iron or in other words puddle iron of the highest quality, it was a higher class of steel. Gustave Eiffel thought that wrought iron was suitable to build the tower because of its affordability, it's flexibility and its strength. It needed to be a material that was very strong and so it could hold up through conditions.
2. The Guggenheim in Bilbao was built using a merging mixture of glass, steel frame and sinuous stone, and titanium. This specific titanium is only half a millimetre thick they used a state of the art digital design program that made it so exclusive. The contrasting shaped exhibit in the museum have all been made up using concrete, with "curved and twisted" walls.
Significance of the designer
1. Eiffel was being founded a company that specialised in "structural metal work" as an engineer. Building construction of the Eiffel tower was the company's biggest achievement. Although Gustave Eiffel's liked structural work his favorite practice was bridge building.
2. Frank Gehry is the principal of the architechture firm Frank O. Gehry and associates. He has won a number of awards for his successful designs. His designs are often out standing and different from other peoples ideas. Which fitted criteria for the Guggenheim quite well and lead him across to be employed to design the museum in Bilbao.
Function for which each was built
1. The Eiffel tower was a big attraction in 1889 as a world fair that was to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the french revolution. The tower was said to stand for only twenty years, but Gustave Eiffel researched and motivated scientific experiments to extend this, which in other words to keep it standing. Today it is a huge icon in paris, is a tourist attraction and is used for some radio and tv communications.
2. The Guggenheim was built to display art work for the public and the community to see and has stayed the same till today.
Similarities
The Eiffel Tower and the Guggenheim are both big tourist attractions to the world. They both had materials used during the construction that were curvy and made it hard for the designers to achieve but wanted still decided to achieve for its uniqueness.
Differences
The designers for both building were from totally different backgrounds and specialized in different areas. Eiffel was an engineer who specialized in structural work with metal, and Gehry was an architect. Which then showed as an end result. The Eiffel Tower was more planned out, direct and looked a lot more mathematical and the Guggenheim looks although it wasn't it looked sort of unplanned or is a lot more trendy as the structure was built.
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0213201/Eiffel%20tower.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower
http://www.tour-eiffel.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao
http://www.guggenheim.org/bilbaol
https:/engineering.purdu.edu/MSE/AboutUs/GotMaterials/Building.paterls.html
Good facts about what and how the two are very different, shows that two artists can make that amounht of work and it can be turned into a piece of art. The Eiffel Tower is a wonder of the world. I like how you stated that both artists come from different backgrounds and use different materals which makes them different from the crowd and also attratcs attention and also inspires other uprising architects etc.
ReplyDeleteI like the way u stated that the artists stood out from the croud.And it has definately gone way over how long it was supposed to last for.If not for Gustav the Eiffel tower would'nt be what it is today, one of the worders of the world.
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