Everything in the world let alone architecture is held together With UNITY. In architecture, one finds unity when he creates some sort of order. This doesn't mean that everything lines up in a row but everything has a path and connects at some screw or joint therefore creating order. As we all should know, Greece in separated into many different city states. This should mean that they were not unified but this isn't so. The architectural style you found in one city state would also appear in another. The same food's were eaten,
gods and goddesses were worshiped and architecture was built. Not only was Greece unified, but it seemed like the world at the time was also unified. The same architectural techniques such as stacking and the post and lintel were used in other places such Egypt and Asia. People were even at that time Unified in thought because those techniques were the most successful ways to bring order.
BOUNDARIES aren't always set by lines. In the art world one often finds that boundaries can be implied such as a vignette that just seems to fade onto the page. One can say that in architecture, boundaries are clear: this is one building and this is another. boundaries in architecture can also be guidelines to other forms. This definitely holds true for the Erqchtheion in Greece. Yes, the columns are at the end of the building but each column is shaped to look like a woman and all of the woman are not looking towards the inside of the building or another part of it but rather the temple of Athena.
This shows that, yes, this building may be important, but it is nothing compared to the all knowing Goddess of wisdom, Athena.
Everything that i have been learning about thus far, and probably will continue learning, is that SCALE is interlinked with architecture. Without one, the other doesn't exist. Architecture just does make sense without scale. If it did, the Propylaea in Greece wouldn't be the ideal piece of architecture that shaped Western culture today. The solid vertical walls and columns are the major scale elements of this piece of architecture. It makes the building that much more intimidating and appear that much taller, like one must do a lot
of work to get to the top. In this case, scale was used to show importance. Because this was the most important part of Acropolis it had to be the largest piece of architecture in the area.
We have also been dealing with scale in Stoel's class while building Pat's chair. We had to figure out what the best space would be for Pat to it comfortably therefore we had to measure exactly how big everything should be and how distant everything should be such as the seat to the table or the length of the chair.
In Suzanne's class scale came in the form of people. When you are presenting a space to potential client you shouldn't just show them what the structure would look like. The client wouldn't be able to get a real feel for the size of the room and the interaction that would be going on . This is where scale figures comes in. One should draw figures in the space to show how people would interact as well as how large or small they would look in the space.
We have been learning a great deal about SECTION in Stoel's drafting class. It shows things that could not been seen if it was a whole piece and if you were sending your sketches out to be built by ikea, you would need multiple section drawings to convey clearly what the end product should look like. I decided to use my drafting skills to draw a section view of something i have also been learning a great deal about in history class: an ionic greek column. By taking a section view of the perfected columns built by the ancient Greeks, we can understand and shape our modern Western buildings that have been greatly influenced by the Greek culture.
VIGNETTES have been our main focus in drawing class for a couple of weeks. I learned that vignettes allow the observer to make their own boundaries for the image. It is also very aesthetically pleasing to the eye and lets the artist capture what is truly important in the drawing and let everything else fade away. This technique creates a more interesting picture and become even more lifelike or captivating when water color and even words are added to the scene created.
Citations:
Summary:
No comments:
Post a Comment