Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Relevance of architecture as per its role in other forms of media? Preservation / dialogue about
architecture in other than building
Playtime Jacques tati
Parody of modernity (technocratic/modern life)
Continues to make modern arch relevant in pop culture
Modernisation: Urbanism & capitalism (as main form of economy) – and how these influence the
styles
Rationalism/functionalism as principles
Reconstructing tradition: idea of tradition is developed in modern period as a contrast; ironic that
instead of it being inherited, they reconstruct/reinvent tradition
Visionary architecture: ruins of metropolitan areas – ideas on how to enhance life through new
systems
Seminar:
Crafts in relation to technology
William morris the revival of handicraft
-relation to the technology of the medium
Age pf pericles
Time of stability 30 year peace treaty
Legacy in built form: 2 urban sanctuaries
The Acropolis and the Agora
Acropolis – sanctified site with temples dedicated to various gods, for devotions and savred
ceeremonies
Propylaea as entrance
Panoramic views
The idea of the greek picturesque
Mobile spectator following prescribed route
Buildings are imposing and symmetrical when viewed (strong visual balance)
Rhythm
Sense of scale of Athena statue in comparison to building scale
Parthenon is not approached frontally, movement of colonnade and visual effect
Hadrian
Consolidation of power across empire
Pantheon of the gods – pagan temple
Created the roman city – roman castrum origins
Historical layers and rebuilding
- roman forum
- Hadrian’s villa, Tivoli
Vitruvian man