Postcard-Perfect Architecture
Postcard printing has long been a popular tool for capturing great art forms.
Whether its fashion, photography, sculptures, painting, dance, even literature, postcards serve as handy and affordable mediums to show them.
One of the most compelling subjects of postcards is famous architecture.
The Taj Mahal, Empire State Building, The Parthenon, Beijing's Birdsnest Olympic Stadium and Taipei 101, these iconic buildings have all landed on postcards.
Their appearance on this medium have all educated and amazed the world.
These buildings and their architects now have global fame and fortune due to their postcard-perfect images.
Listing the world's best postcard-perfect architecture leaves much to be argued.
Instead, I've chosen to list just two of my favorite postcard images below and leave it to the reader to agree.
oThe Architecture of Frank Gehry-Documenting fourteen of the architect's most distinguished built projects over a span of three decades, this handy set includes two of my favorites amongst his work.
These are the Vitra Design Museum of furniture in Weil am Rhein, Germany and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
Frank Gehry is considered to be one of most famous postmodernist architects of the 20th century.
His architectural style is known for its diversion from conventionally modern forms to more free-form and disjointed massing of buildings and structures and materials.
oPostcard of the Roman Colosseum-this iconic structure of Roman power, also known as the Flavian Amphitheater, was constructed during 70 to 72 AD under the reign of the roman emperor Vespasian.
With its massive, elliptically-shaped plan, the colosseum was built for gladiator sports, re-enactments, executions and other spectator sport activities.
A proud architectural testament of Imperial Rome, the colosseum was built using the engineering principles Rome was best known for at that time.
It was also a structure that combined all Greek classical order of columns namely; Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.
Numerous printshops in Rome print postcards of this famous landmark.
Whether its fashion, photography, sculptures, painting, dance, even literature, postcards serve as handy and affordable mediums to show them.
One of the most compelling subjects of postcards is famous architecture.
The Taj Mahal, Empire State Building, The Parthenon, Beijing's Birdsnest Olympic Stadium and Taipei 101, these iconic buildings have all landed on postcards.
Their appearance on this medium have all educated and amazed the world.
These buildings and their architects now have global fame and fortune due to their postcard-perfect images.
Listing the world's best postcard-perfect architecture leaves much to be argued.
Instead, I've chosen to list just two of my favorite postcard images below and leave it to the reader to agree.
oThe Architecture of Frank Gehry-Documenting fourteen of the architect's most distinguished built projects over a span of three decades, this handy set includes two of my favorites amongst his work.
These are the Vitra Design Museum of furniture in Weil am Rhein, Germany and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
Frank Gehry is considered to be one of most famous postmodernist architects of the 20th century.
His architectural style is known for its diversion from conventionally modern forms to more free-form and disjointed massing of buildings and structures and materials.
oPostcard of the Roman Colosseum-this iconic structure of Roman power, also known as the Flavian Amphitheater, was constructed during 70 to 72 AD under the reign of the roman emperor Vespasian.
With its massive, elliptically-shaped plan, the colosseum was built for gladiator sports, re-enactments, executions and other spectator sport activities.
A proud architectural testament of Imperial Rome, the colosseum was built using the engineering principles Rome was best known for at that time.
It was also a structure that combined all Greek classical order of columns namely; Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.
Numerous printshops in Rome print postcards of this famous landmark.