48-747 shape grammars - palladio, the four books on architecture, pp 56 tr. robert tavernor and...
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48-747 Shape Grammars
THEPALLADIANGRAMMAR
language→style←shapegrammar
analyticshapegrammarsareintendedforaparticularstyle
criteriaforauthoringasuccessfulanalyticgrammarforstylewerespelledoutbyStinyandMitchell
clarify the underlying commonality of structure and appearance manifest for
the buildings in the corpus;
supply the conventions and criteria necessary to determine whether any
other building not in the original corpus is an instance of the style; and
provide the compositional machinery needed to design new buildings that are
instances in the style
thesources
AndreaPalladioIQuattroLibridell’Architetura
TheFourBooksofArchitecture,tr.IssacWare,1737
TheFourBooksonArchitecture,tr.RobertTavernorandRichardSchofield,2002
AndreaPalladio,TheFourBooksonArchitecture,pp56tr.RobertTavernorandRichardSchofield
“Andthoughvarietyandnoveltymaypleaseeverybody,oneshouldnot,however,doanythingthatiscontrarytothelawsofthisart,andcontrarytowhatreasonmakesobvious;sowecanseethattheancientsalsomadevariations,buttheyneverdepartedfromcertainuniversalandessentialrulesofthisart,asweshallseeinmybookofantiquities.”
exemplar–thevillaMalcontenta
stagesinshapegrammar
griddefinition
exteriorwallrealignment
roomlayout
interiorwallrealignment
principalentrances‐porticosandexteriorwallinflections
exteriorornamentation‐columns
windowsanddoors
termination
thestagespictorially
8 termination 7 windows + doors 6 exterior ornament 5 entrances
3 room layout 4 realignment 2 exterior wall 1 grid
systemofmeasurement
Avicentinefoot
“ThislinewithwhichthefollowingbuildingsaremeasuredishalfaVicentinefoot[piedevicentino].Thefootisdividedinto12inchesandeachinchinto4minutes[minuto]”
Palladio,pp.79
griddefinition
axialsymmetry
“Rooms[stanza]mustbedistributedateithersideoftheentranceandthehall,andonemustensurethatthoseontherightcorrespondandareequaltothoseontheleftsothatthebuildingwillbethesameononesideastheontheotherandthewallswilltaketheweightoftheroofequally;…”
Palladio,pp.57
1.therulesforgeneratingatartangrid
“Thereareseventypesofroomthatarethemostbeautifulandwell‐proportionedandturnoutbetter;theycanbemadecircular[ritundo],thoughthesearerare;orsquare[quadrato];ortheirlengthwillequalthediagonalofthesquare[quadrato]ofthebreadth;orasquare[quadrato]andathird;orasquare[quadrato],andathird;orasquareandahalf;orasquareandtwo‐thirds;ortwosquares.”
1.griddefinition
2.exteriorwalldefinition
3.roomlayout
3.roomlayout
4.interiorwallrealignment
5.principalentrancesporticosandinflections
5.principalentrances
portico in antis
portico prostyle
5.principalentrances
a second portico in antis
5.principalentrances
6.exteriorornamentation
“Nowthatwehavetalkedofwallsbythemselves[murosemplices],itisappropriatetomoveontotheirornaments,ofwhichcolumns,whenlocatedproperlyandinproportiontothewholebuilding,arebyfarthemostimportantthatcanbeappliedtoabuilding.”(pp.17)
7.windowsanddoors
7.windowsanddoors
8.termination
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