elements of architecture. objectives to understand the nature of architecture to understand how the...
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ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
OBJECTIVES
• To understand the nature of architecture
• To understand how the nature of architecture has affected urban form
• To understand how a new urban architecture is evolving
THE NATURE OF ARCHITECTURE
Even in Britain, long ago, most people made their own buildings
Gradually a gap developed between ‘building’ and ‘dwelling’
Later, as economies developed, a gap opened up between ‘designing’ and ‘building’
Industrialisation created a market for ever more specialised design services:
•Engineers: specialists in new materials and structure
•Architects: specialists in art
Post world war two, a market for town planning was developed:
•Architects: move even more into the art camp
•Planners: specialists in social and management issues
Art Design
Architecture
Environmental Infrastructure: Aeons
Public Space Network: Millennia
Plots: Centuries
Buildings: Decades
Components: Indeterminate
CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
FRANK GEHRY:$130,000,000
TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE NATURE OF ARCHITECTURE HAS
AFFECTED URBAN FORM
Buildings: the unique selling proposition
PermeabilityIntegrated network
VitalityActive interface The Admirable Types
of Responsive Environments
Perimeter block
In the end this creates a problem
From perimeter blocks to monuments
TO UNDERSTAND HOW A NEW URBAN ARCHITECTURE IS
EVOLVING
For discussion on Friday Week 5 at 9am I’ll ask each student:
• To highlight one key point from the lecture and explain why you thought it was interesting;
• To discuss what you learnt from the lecture that can be applied to the design of the Cowley march park.