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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.
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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
Even in Britain, long ago, most people made their own buildings
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
Architecture Design Art
CULTURAL LANDSCAPE Components: Indeterminate Buildings: Decades Plots: Centuries Public Space Network: Millennia Environmental Infrastructure: Aeons
FRANK GEHRY: $130,000,000
TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE NATURE OF ARCHITECTURE HAS AFFECTED URBAN FORM
Permeability Integrated network Perimeter block Active interface In the end this creates a problem The Admirable Types of Responsive Environments Vitality
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.