Some Review Notes for Exam - Appreciation of Architecture I | ARCH 2401, Study notes of Architecture

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Roof – Pitched or Flat or combination

Point 3: Even our own perspective and response changes.
Point 4: Architecture is complicated, but it is not rocket science

Most important question for this course “Why does it look like that?”

Architecture serves as a register of human culture
People
Technology
Economy
Context
Aesthetics

HOW DO WE ANALYZE ARCHITECHTURE? 1/24 hw
Find out basic information of architect. Making a good, sustainable design
How it looks
Efficient for where it is made and how
How effectively it is molded to owner’s wants
What kind of theme it has
Materials of structure
Comparing to other structures of time period

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What is the fundamental function of architecture?
Shelter
- Franchthi Cave - Natural
Argolis, Greece (20,000 BCE)

Mangal City Is it natural?
AA London (2011)
From pure utility to telling the story of human character, ambition, and values.
HOW?
What gives form to architechture?
People, technology, economy, context, aesthetics

How does architecture tell the story of human character, ambition, and values? Utilitas, firmitas, venustas --- Virtruvian Triade
Marcus Virtruvius Pollio, writer architect engineer
Utilitas – function, firmitas – structure, venustas – aesthetics

Aesthetics: rhythm, line, scale, light, texture, color, ornament, acoustics, site, space, weight and mass

Rhythm
Amiens Cathedral – Robert de Luzarches amiens, France (1288)
Palazzo Rucellai – Leon Battista Alberti Florence, Italy (1451)

Gothic Cathedral – vertical lift, upward (inspiration toward God)