ARC 308 Lecture 17: Arch Lectures
[ARC 308] Lecture Notes
[SECTION 1]
1/17/08
• Architecture: physical embodiment of who we are as individuals and who we are as a culture
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• We uild our uildigs, thereafter our uildigs shape us –Winston Churchill
o We shape our environments and then our environments shape us
• Arhiteture is the Mother of the Arts
o Literature would be disabled if not for architecture
▪ Writers know how to use architecture to convey meaning
• Great Epetatios; Ms. Haishas house, Pips hoeto, etc
▪ Dickens knows that to fully and vicariously convey a character you have to
oe their eiroets; ou at just desrie the harater
▪ J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter; Hogwarts, Gryffindor, etc.
▪ Shakespeare
• Romeo Juliet; Balcony Scene
o Films use architecture to convey feelings
▪ Wizard of Oz; Emerald City
• Where do we encounter scarecrow? Sunny field => optimistic, positive,
easygoing scarecrow
• Where do we encounter Lion? Dark creepy enclosed forest => scared,
timid lion
• Where is Oz? Grand room in magnificent emerald city => great,
powerful, intimidating Oz
▪ Gone With The Wind
• Happy, friendly house
• Ciil War… harsh, hardeed atosphere leads to harsh sarlet
▪ Star Wars
• Death Star and Darth Vader
o Music
▪ Auditoriums are built with architecture to amplify and clarify sound
▪ Acoustic quality and possibilities of building structures
o Politics
▪ Rome center of catholic church
• Alter architecture of city to give that image
o Straight streets with landmark at end so everywhere you turn
you are reminded of the church
▪ French monarch
• Built the largest palace in Europe; Versais
o Model palace for all of Europe
▪ Baron ???
• Built Paris into the premier capital city
o Hallowed out squares
o Built large straight roads
o Grand roads and plazas
o Paris became GRAND
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▪ Bishops Palace (TX); Nicholas Clayton
• Brought artifacts from all over the world and incorporated them all over
the house
• Brash, headstrong architecture
• Feeling of exuberance and power in the house while also the sweetness
and generosity of the family
• Mural with portraits of all of her children in the house
▪ Foam house (TX); Charles Harker
1/22/08
• Farm, Gut Garkau, Germany, Hugo Haering 1924-1925
• Barcelona Pavillioin, Mies Van Der Rohe, 1929
• Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, Mies Van Der Rohe, 1945
• New State Chancellery, Berlin, Albert Speer, 1937
1/24/08
• What is role of Architecture in society? (recent major lecture topic)
• Petruvius stressed:
o Firmness
▪ Does building stand up?
▪ Is building structurally sound?
▪ Does everything (plumbing, appliances, etc) work?
▪ Physical & Technical Considerations
o Commodity
▪ Accomodation
▪ How does the building accommodate our activities, our needs, our life, etc.
▪ What is the psychological/sociological impact of the building?
▪ Human factors
o Delight
▪ Issues of for i arhiteture
▪ Building may convey meaning
• Particular aspects of form
o Sensual-visual part of buildings
o Why do we want beauty?
▪ Beauty = power (possibly?)
• E.g. Porsche, diaod…. Leads to hoor
▪ Abbot Sugse (sp?) built many cathedrals
• Was a philosopher
o the dull id rises to truth through that hih is aterial
▪ We understand fundamental truths through the
phsial orld outai top… seeig it rigs truth to
it… helps us realize the agifiee of it
o a rises to the oteplatio of the diie ol through the
seses
▪ If we are to understand god, we must go through our
senses. (hearing beautiful choir music; smelling a
beautiful, sweet smell)
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o Understand TRUTH and THE CONTEMPLATION OF THE DIVINE
• Into beauty as elevating yourself in your religious life
o What is the role of our senses (especially in becoming complete and whole human
beings)?
▪ Smell of bread baking vs. smell of cow manure
▪ Stick hand in mink coat vs. hand in vat of animal guts
▪ Hearing symphony vs. jack-hammering
▪ Why and what makes us think people are beautiful/repulsive?
• Are they innate or learned?
o We strive for beauty in ourselves (dressing up, good hygiene, being clean)
• 12 Elements of Form:
o Balance
o Proportion
o Symmetry
o Light
o Space
o Shape
o Line
o Color
o Material
o Scale
o Rhythm
o Texture
• [sleep]
• Massie sale of hurh… hits at agitude of its magnificence
• Stain glass windows
• Nicholas Quto(
o Older wiser minister
o Savvy, savvy guy
• [Sleep]
• Taj Mahal
o Shah Zahan built for his wife who died giving birth to his 10th child when she was 28
o Its proportio is perfet
o Its shape is iportat
o Light – moonlight luminates the building so it glows
o Material – amazing amount of marble; whole building is solid marble
o Scale – its huge i opariso to people ut iside its also do to hua size
• Chapel
o Le Corbusier built at a place where a woman was claimed to have appeared to the Virgin
Mary and show her to have a spiritual life
o Has strong spirituality; people come just to feel spiritual
o Original chapel was bombed and Le Corbusier built this Chapel
o Shape is unique
o Line – all harmonize with each other
o Texture – made of rubbly concrete but then has a plaster finish
o Color – most is white but there are certain accents with vivid colors (esp inside)
o Space – very dynamic space
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Document Summary
Grand room in magnificent emerald city => great, powerful, intimidating oz: gone with the wind, happy, friendly house, ci(cid:448)il war harsh, harde(cid:374)ed at(cid:373)osphere leads to harsh s(cid:272)arlet, star wars. 1/22/08: farm, gut garkau, germany, hugo haering 1924-1925, barcelona pavillioin, mies van der rohe, 1929, farnsworth house, plano, illinois, mies van der rohe, 1945, new state chancellery, berlin, albert speer, 1937. 1/24/08: what is role of architecture in society? (recent major lecture topic, petruvius stressed, firmness. Issues of (cid:862)for(cid:373)(cid:863) i(cid:374) ar(cid:272)hite(cid:272)ture: building may convey meaning, particular aspects of form, sensual-visual part of buildings, why do we want beauty, beauty = power (possibly?, e. g. If we are to understand god, we must go through our senses. (hearing beautiful choir music; smelling a beautiful, sweet smell: understand truth and the contemplation of the divine. [sleep: massi(cid:448)e s(cid:272)ale of (cid:272)hur(cid:272)h hi(cid:374)ts at (cid:373)ag(cid:374)itude of its magnificence, stain glass windows, nicholas quto, older wiser minister, savvy, savvy guy.
