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Basic Elements
• • • • • Roof Walls Windows Doorways Orientation
Trabeated Structures
CANTILEVER
Milstein Hall, Cornell University (Rem Kolhaas)
Gale House, Oak Partk, IL (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Villa Savoye, Poissy, France. LeCorbusier.
Symmetry
Asymmetry
Analyzing a Building:
• Weight & Mass:
– – – – – – – – – Materials Massing for Weight Relationship to Ground (high or low?) Texture Color Ornamentation Light Acoustics Context
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Venustas art beauty elevation
Utilitas as Message:
Transamerica Bldg. SF, CA TWA Terminal, JFK
Utilitas by Addition:
Louis Kahn’s Richards Medical Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania
Analyzing a Building:
• • • • Space: Solids and Voids Scale and Proportion Weight & Mass Basic Design Elements
Analyzing a Building:
• Space: Solids and Voids – Symmetry – Asymmetry
ARCUATED STRUCTURES
Hagia Sophia, Instanbul
Colosseum, Rome.
Venustas
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beauty elevation
Hertziana, Rome
Gugenheim Museum, Bilbao
What makes architecture good?
Venustas
Utilitas
need function plan
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Utilitas
need function plan
Firmitas means structure section
Utilitas by Division:
Urge towards symmetry:
Firmitas/Stucture will always be a function of:
•Advances in engineering •Availability and strength of materials •Cost available for materials •Other historical and geographical factors
“Architecture is the adaptation of form to resist force.” John Ruskin (19th c.)
All structures seek a balance between tension and compression.
Traditionally there were two ways to handle this: through trabeated structures or through arcuated structures.
According to Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, 1st cent. BCE), in De Architectura a building must be considered in terms of three elements:
Utilitas Firmitas
Pentre Ifan Burial Chamber, 2000 BCE
John Portman, Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles. 1976.
Richard Neutra, Edgar J. Kaufmann House, Palm Springs, 1946.
Introduction to Architecture
“Reading” architecture requires us to allow buildings to “speak” to us.
But how can inanimate objects speak to us?
Especially if those objects are not representational?
• Does it express its function in a meaningful, interesting, and appealing way? • Does it seem to “fit” its surroundings (by complementing or contrasting with it in an interesting and meaningful way)? • Is its design and execution structurally sound? • Does it create a meaningful (interesting, surprising, enjoyable, delightful, disturbing etc.) space? • Will it endure? Has it endured?