The Florida Home is a classic, distinctive and elegant style which has been explored and developed by architects such as Igor Polevitzky, Rufus Nims and Alfred Browning Parker in 1940s-’50s South Florida. The homes are based on international style and modern architecture, in an attempt to incorporate modern designs and elements in the styling. Florida house is famous for its comfortable and lively spaces in a warm climate. Screened outdoor living, sleeping and dining pool areas are typical characteristic features of any outdoor living space. To fight the elements while letting air pass through, the architects experimented with eaves, raised floors and the omnipresent jalousie windows. Cracker StyleFlorida cracker architecture is a style of woodframe homes that were hugely popular in the 19th century in Florida, United States, and are still popular with some developers as a source of design themes. These homes are characterized by metal roofs, raised floors and straight central hallways from the front to the back of the home. Floridian style house floor plans will rarely have a basement due to the elevation and water table. The exterior walls are usually be made of concrete. Cement block walls are sometimes replaced with ICF or Insulated Concrete Forms. Concrete is used because it is the best base strata for the stucco exterior finish. In fact, many homeowners have permanently covered their homes to allow for efficient air-conditioning and incorporate other modern needs as well. The designing is extremely sensible with different parts of the home divided into villas, separated into four corners connected by covered walkways affording privacy as well as allowing those imperative southeasterly breezes to drift through the spacious rooms. Well, above are some key features about the “Florida home” architectural style.
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Designer Furniture by Eileen Gray
December 8th, 2009Le Corbusier was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris in 1887 and was an architect and designer as well as being a writer, urbanist and painter. He was a pioneer in modern high design studies and many of his designs are reproduced today with minor changes. He was also very dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. As a writer he had a very developed sense of organization in formulating plans for a futuristic city.
As an urbanist he sought efficient ways to house large numbers of people. He believed that his new architectural designs would provide a new and organized solution to the over-crowding of large cities. His design would also improve the quality of life for those in the lower classes because they would have homes of their own and be up from the squalor that they had known before. In order to meet the needs of this, he built blocks of individual apartments for individual families.
When he changed his name and assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier, which was a rewording of his grandfather’s name, he was able to reflect his belief that anyone was capable of reinventing oneself. As an architect, he always filled his finished work with other furniture that had clean designs and took up very little of his spacious rooms. When he focused his attention on furniture design, he brought with him his sleek tastes in architecture. Many of his designs are molded from tubular steel frames and heavily padded, making the furniture look very square and sleek. He is well known for his modern designs for club chairs, love seats, sofas, chaise lounges, coffee tables, ottomans, corner sectional sofas and sectional sofas with chaises attached.
Le Corbusier was a Swiss pioneer in both architecture and furniture design. His designs were made to be both functional and at the same time take as little space as possible. Because of his penchant for organizational skills he was able to help improve the over-crowding of large cities by coming up with a design for a building that put several floors of apartments together and thereby being able to house several families in their own homes and improving their quality of life. He was always writing and had an eye towards the future, especially when he came up with a plan for an organized city that featured transportation by automobile, which was a relatively new idea during his lifetime.
By: Bill Hinson