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Philosophy Built environment , culture and people. AESTHETICS, ART, ARCHITECTURE. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983). was a German-born British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of architecture.
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PhilosophyBuiltenvironment, culture and people AESTHETICS, ART, ARCHITECTURE
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) • was a German-born British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of architecture. • He is best known for his 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74).
Buildings and Architecture Bicycle Shed is a building Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of Architecture
Lincoln Cathedral • (in full The Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, or sometimes St. Mary's Cathedral) is a historic Anglican cathedral in Lincoln in England and seat of the Bishop of Lincoln in the Church of England. It was reputedly the tallest building in the world for 249 years (1300–1549).
Buildings and Architecture Building Piece of Architecture „the term architecture applies only to buildings designed with a view to aesthetic appeal” • „Nearly everything that encloses space on a scale sufficient for a human being to move in, is a building;
Aesthetics • Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy. • The term aesthetics comes from the Greekαισθητική (aisthetike) meaning "sensation" from αίσθησιν (aisthesin) or "sense." • The study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, the judgments of taste and the perception of the beautiful • Aesthetics is closely associated with the theory of art and beauty.
Aesthetics 3 ways of a building for causing aesthetic sensations
Aesthetics • Treatment of walls • Proportions of windows • Relation of wall-space to window-space • The relation of one story to an other • Ornamentation (tracery, leaf and fruit garlands)
Language • „the tracery of a 14th century window • The lead and fruit garlands of a Wren porch
Tracery • The curvilinear ornamental branch-like shapes of stone or wood, creating an openwork pattern of mullions
Porch • A roofed entrance, either incorporated in a building or as an applied feature on the exterior,
Wren, Sir Chistopher (1632-1723) • One of England’s greatest scientists and architects, he was active in rebuilding London after the fire of 1666. He rebuilt St. Paul’s Cathedral , London (1673)
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Aesthetics • Treatment of the exterior • Contrasts of block against block • Effect of a pitched or a flat roof or a dome • Rhythm of projections and recessions
The building as a volume • Block against block • Pitched or flat roofs • The rythms of projections and recessions • Three dimensional, a plastic unit, the sculpture’s way
Eiffel Tower Stephen Sauvestre 1887-1889 Paris, France
Orvieto Cathedral Umbria, Central Italy 1290-1607
Mercedes-Benz Museum UN Studio 2006 Stuttgart, Germany
Notre Dame du Haut, Le Corbusier, 1955 Ronchamp, France.
Fallingwater Frank Lloyd Wright 1936 – 1939 Uniontowm, Pennsylvania, USA
Sydney Opera House Jørn Oberg Utzon 1959-1973 Sydney, Australia
Gugenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry 1997 Bilbao, Spain
Aesthetics • Treatment of the interior • Sequence of rooms • The widening out of a nave at the crossing • The stately movement of a baroque staircase
Space The importance of ground plans Architecture = space + volume + surface.
Aesthetics • Treatment of Walls – 2 dimensional – Painting • Treatment of Exterior – 3 dimensional – Sculpt • Treatment of Interior – 3 dimensional – Arch. Space
Connection of GroundPlans and Architecture • Presenting a building • Presenting its Architectural quality • What is the full aesthetic effect of a building?
Architectureassuperiortootherartisticforms Why is architecture superior to other forms of art? Space as an aesthetic media exclusive of architecture Necessary for human existence Why? Human history is inconsceivable without architecture
Notre Dame du Haut, Le Corbusier, 1955 Ronchamp, France.
Notre Dame du Haut, • http://www.learn.columbia.edu/ha/related_sites/ronchamp_360/index.html
Architectureassuperiortootherartisticforms • Is human historyinconceivablewithoutarchitecture? • Whatdoesitproveifit is? • Thatthereare no human beingswithoutthepractice of architecure? • Thatthere is no human communitywithoutarchitecture? • Thatthere is no human societywithoutarchitecture? • Thatthere is no human culturewithoutarchitecture?
Architectureassuperiortootherartisticforms • Is human history inconceivable without architecture? • What does it prove if it is? • That we cannot conceive humanity without architecture? • How do we explain this? • Humanity and Architecure are necessarily bound to each other? • We are that much used to architecture that we cannot imagine the world without it?
Architectureassuperiortootherartisticforms • Is human historyinconceivablewithoutarchitecture? • Whatdoesitmeanthatit is? • Wecannotimagine a worldwithout … Whatexactly? • Howtodefinearchitecture? • Pevsner: „thetermarchitectureappliesonlytobuildingsdesignedwith a viewtoaestheticappeal” • Is ittruethatwecannotimaginehumanitywithouttheexistence of theabovedefinedphenomena? • What is the more importantfeature of architecture? • Necessity? • Aesthetics?
Buildings and Architecture Bicycle Shed is a building Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of Architecture
Buildings and Architecture Building Piece of Architecture „the term architecture applies only to buildings designed with a view to aesthetic appeal” • „Nearly everything that encloses space on a scale sufficient for a human being to move in, is a building;
Notre Dame du Haut, Le Corbusier, 1955 Ronchamp, France.
Fallingwater Frank Lloyd Wright 1936 – 1939 Uniontowm, Pennsylvania, USA
Sydney Opera House Jørn Oberg Utzon 1959-1973 Sydney, Australia
Institut du Monde Arabe Jean Nouvel 1981-1987 Paris, France