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Round Pillars in Architecture: From the Classical Column to the Modern Sculptural Support

Lilly Cao — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 07:30:00 +0000

The pillar has adorned many of the greatest monumental examples of Western architecture since antiquity, from the Doric columns of the Parthenon to the Corinthian capitals of the Pantheon portico. In the West, the legacies of these classical forms have permutated over the centuries and into modern times: the Doric columns of the Lincoln Memorial, the Ionic columns of the British museum portico, and the Villa Savoye’s pilotis are just a few examples of the classical column’s continued transformation and use over the last few centuries. Today, the round pillar continues to be used in modern design, both functionally and aesthetically. Below, we look into these elements in more detail, including their materials, construction, structural qualities, and several contemporary examples of their use.

Apartment House in Pregassona / Martino Pedrozzi

Javier Gaete — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 04:00:00 +0000

The project concerns a small apartment house. A quite usual program that we tried to develop starting from its apparent banality. The structure of the building is the simplest one could imagine: an eight pillars crown with two bearing cores in the middle. The project poetic is expressed through its essentiality, such as represented in the structural model picture.

House in Sonvico / Martino Pedrozzi

Fernanda Castro — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000