ARC132H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Villa Tugendhat, Toshiyori, Skeleton
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Builders have in the business of creating spaces, but they have been using the term space for only a short period of time. Before that they spoke about colume and voids, but not about space. 2 buildings can be completely diferent, but what they oftenhave in common are their spatial arrangements. The idea of space is a new idea. It was irst in the late 19th century in german speaking countries, that the term spce started to appear. Before that, architect did not describe their work in th. Starting in the late 19th century in the discipline of art history, architectws ctritics an dhistorians started talking about this thing called space. It wasn"t the wars loors, ceiling that made architecture what it was. They argud that it was the spaces and voids between them that deined space. First comes spce, and then comes the external volume. It"s like the exterior is the end result of the interior arrangement.