The Roles and Influence of Designers in the Society

The epicenter of the Renaissance art is the dome of the Cathedral of the St Florence which resulted into the innovation of new techniques and designs during the rebirth of Europe contributed by Brunelleschi. The modern Articheture by Smith focuses on the art work can be used to solve ecological problems by the concept of contextualism. The concept of contextualism means that a structure (building) should have the rapport to its environmental context and draw from the character and the culture of the place. Before constructing a building an architect must survey the climate, wind, and site and soil conditions and factor them into the project as well. The two periods greatly influences the era they represent contextually, historically and culturally and they vividly and accurately communicate the roles and influence of designers in the society.

Originally, the dome of the cathedral was first designed by Arnolfo di Cambio but the architecture that later became famous for the designing and building the cathedral's dome was Filippo Brunelleschi (Burke, 2014). Brunelleschi’s important contribution to the Florence city and the field of architecture during his time was that he became the first to establish new standards in the field of architecture. Burke explains that “after the context he (Brunelleschi) received the commission to plan and construct the dome”. During the competition, Brunelleschi competed against renowned artists and architects of Florentine including Lorenzo Ghiberti. The building of the dome of the cathedral signified more changes and professional status of the architects in the society. , 2017) The Renaissance architectural design (the dome of the cathedral) by Brunelleschi The design was required to deal with the various seemingly overwhelming problem of the construction of the dome.

At first was the problem of the space which was to be spanned. The space was too wide and therefore it was difficult to permit the traditional technique of wood centering to be part of the construction process. The walls that were buttressed had no capacity to hold the dome. Brunelleschi came with the plan which solved these problems in a unique way. Brunelleschi achievement was the fact that he freed the support of the cupola from the wall structure by making them separate frameworks which prepared the way for the 24 ribbed structure of the cathedral dome. Therefore, the strut supporting system of the cupola was now being transformed into the independent supporting skeleton of ribs. This Brunelleschi’s technique ended the medieval era of architecture where the monumental form of modern architecture was born (Coomans & Xu,2015) The modern architecture (Imperial Tower, India) Adrian Smith.

More than four decades Adrian has been a practicing architect. He developed unique designs perspectives stressing on sensitivity to the physical environment. Comparatively, the modern architecture is influenced mostly by contextual architect (culture, climate, economy among others) in that it deals with matters related to the external environments and helps mostly in solving the environmental problems e. g. the case of the imperial tower of Mumbai For instance, Adrian realized that human population was rapidly growing and decided to work on storied buildings which economized on space hence the available land was widely used. On the other hand, the renaissance architecture designs were also influenced by factors like culture, art, philosophy, history, economics, and literary criticism. Some of the traditional designs like history; literature are being erased by the modern architectural system.