ARC132H1 Lecture Notes - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Systems Theory, Neue Nationalgalerie
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Mark lewis, cold morning, 2009: td centre, 54th floor of one of towers designed by mies van der rohe. Architecture as technology i: tectonics 2nd module (formal qualities of arc aesthetics: how things look/how architects want them to look) Issues of technology in arc: technology use of tools and techniques to solve practical prob. * tectonic technology in arc building"s response to gravity o o: geology relating to structure of earth"s crust + large-scale processes taking place w/in it, (for arc) relating to building/construction. Origin mid 17th c (in sense 2) via late latin from greek tektonikos, from tektn. Come together to transfer its load to ground? (its elements) * mies van der rohe, dominion centre, toronto, 1967-69: one of last buildings mies designed o, mies = 3rd director of bauhaus. Largest mies project in world + one of most imp ex"s of his work.
