Architecture 101 Midterm
the matrix of components of architecture is used to illustrate how __________ works in architecture
"concept"
Friedrich Kiesler
-"endless house"
Frank Gehry
-Contemporary -Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (subjectivity)
Thomas Jefferson
-Enlightenment/Neo-Classicism
Thomas Jefferson
-Enlightenment/Neo-Classicism -library at UVA
Le Corbusier
-Modernism -Notre Dame du Haut de Ronchamp -Villya Savoye (Vers un Architecture)
Andrea Palladio
-Renaissance -Villa Rotunda
Roman Emperor Hadrian
-antiquity
Le Corbusier's modular system
-belief that you can take the human body as a system of measuring anything in architecture
the image of the "primitive hut" by Laugier shows that...
-classical orders depend on a prototype -columns and beams are more important than walls -researching this idea is a way to find architectural truth -that the rhythm or spacing between columns was just as important as the columns
inspiration for subjective architecture in modern period:
-modern paintings and sculptures -living nature -theater -non-living nature
2 types of modernism
-orthodox -expressionism
Antonio Gaudi
-used unusual structural support systems -Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
Doric
This style of column features simple, heavy columns without bases.
Corinthian
This style of column has elongated capitals that are decorated with leaves.
concept
a form of communication from the built environment to the citizen using it
golden rectangle
a rectangle that can be divided into a square and a rectangle that is similar to the original rectangle
analytique
multiple image drawing that contains as many images the person drawing wants to use
the important thing about how the one square "diagram" related to the matrix of components was...
that a process based on the idea of "diagram" represents the actual purpose of the matrix ("diagram" is the matrix itself)
Which building has a major rounded space in it that was exactly as high as it is wide, thus you could put a sphere in it?
the Ancient Roman Pantheon by Emperor Hadrian in 125 AD
favela
type of uncontrolled slum-like growth (which shows how the future of architecture will have to depend on the fast growing population)
