ARCH 2401 Chapter : Arch 2401 Test 2
Document Summary
At its essence, architecture serves as a register of human culture: people, technology, economy, context, aesthetics. What if the fundamental function of architecture is: shelter, franchti cave, natural vs. natural, from pure utility to telling the story of human character, ambition and values. Spatial sequence by ordering the way we experience spaces, architects create environments that have added emotional impact: structure (firmitas) the building system that resists forces in order to support architecture. It serves as the means by which: keystone, voussoir, impost, buttress, post. Temple of amon: worship, respect, blah blah blah, 1550 b. c, hypostyle hall. Greece: archaic, following dark ages and olympic games, classical, spartan defeat, the search for the ideal, hellenistic, after alexander the great, parthenon, acropolis, closer to gods. Bring large scantron and one 3x5 note card. Steiner house: european modernists, walter gropius, modernity, optimistic future, save man, bauhaus workshops. Form follows function: le corbusier, towards a new architecture. Machine for living: villa savoye, five points.
