History Of Architecture I - Lesson 1: Intro
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The document discusses the history of architecture through examining various buildings and structures from different time periods and cultures. It explores architecture through analyzing materials and techniques, physical contexts, cultural meanings, and representations of buildings over time. The document advocates considering all buildings as important and examining architecture through material, physical, and cultural lenses. It provides numerous examples of structures like the Parthenon, Hagia Sophia, and Pyramids of Giza to illustrate how architecture can be studied through different historical and cultural contexts.
![The description of the Tomb of Mausolos at Alikarnassos given by Pliny the
Elder furnishesimportant data:
It was 18 mt on the north and south sides, and shorter on the front. Its entire
circuit was 130 mt, and the height [of this part?] was 11 mt, around the pteron
(peristyle) were 36 columns. Four famous artists wrought the sculptures on the
several fronts. A pyramid equal to the lower part in height surmounted the
pteron, diminishing in 24 stepsto ameta(generally asteep coneor pyramid). On
the summit was a marble chariot the work of Pythis (Pythios, the architect), the
total height being 41,5 mt.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/lesson1-intro-151229204231/85/History-Of-Architecture-I-Lesson-1-Intro-9-320.jpg)
History Of Architecture I - Lesson 1: Intro
- 1. The history of architecture as a tour
- 2. The Architect's dream 1840, T. Cole
- 3. Buildings and their representations plans, sections, models, sketches Malatesta Temple, Rimini, 15th century. Leon Battista Alberti
- 4. Model of the new Saint Peter church, Rome. 16th century. Antonio da Sangallo
- 5. Hagia Sophia, Constantinople-istanbul. 6th century. Isidoros, Anthemios
- 6. Sketches and plan of the National Assembly of Dakka, Banglades. 20h century. Louis Kahn
- 7. The Colosseum, painting. 19th century. J-B. Corot The Colosseum, engraving. 18th century, G.B. Piranesi
- 8. Sources and their interpretation written documents, reports, bills, descriptions how to configure a disappeared building?
- 9. The description of the Tomb of Mausolos at Alikarnassos given by Pliny the Elder furnishesimportant data: It was 18 mt on the north and south sides, and shorter on the front. Its entire circuit was 130 mt, and the height [of this part?] was 11 mt, around the pteron (peristyle) were 36 columns. Four famous artists wrought the sculptures on the several fronts. A pyramid equal to the lower part in height surmounted the pteron, diminishing in 24 stepsto ameta(generally asteep coneor pyramid). On the summit was a marble chariot the work of Pythis (Pythios, the architect), the total height being 41,5 mt.
- 10. Different reconstruction drawings of the Tomb of Mausolos, 19th century.
- 12. The (Total) Context of Architecture Suleymaniye mosque, Istanbul, 16th century. Mimar Sinan.
- 13. Moreover... there is not an objective approach among historians neither an universal or a historical method history is manufactured by historians, hypothetically there are many histories as there are historians
- 14. According to Spiro Kostof method we will consider four basic aspects: 1 Material aspects (architectural techniques, technologies, compositions, typologies etc..) 2 Physical context (natural sites versus cities) 3 All buildings are important (monuments versus buildings) 4 Cultural aspects and meanings (why a building was built in that shape?)
- 15. 1 The Unity of Architecture Cathedral of Monreale, Palermo, 12th century.
- 16. Structure vs Aesthetic Tour Eiffel, Paris, 19th century. Engineer Eiffel. Parthenon, Athens, 5th century BC. Ictinos and Callicrates
- 17. Hagia Sophia, Constantinople-istanbul. 6th century. Isidoros, Anthemios
- 18. 2 The Context of Architecture Istanbul in the 18th century.
- 19. Architecture is not static experience How buildings are depicted inform us about their perception through history
- 20. Parthenon in a engraving of the 18th century.
- 21. Parthenon in a reconstruction of the 19th century.
- 22. Buildings built in the 19th century following the model of the Parthenon. Bank of Philadelphia, left, Walalla, right.
- 23. Parthenon in Le Corbusier sketches at the beginning of the 20th century.
- 24. 3 The Community of Architecture Architecture vs Buildings Houses in Olynthos, Greece. 4th century BC. Temple of Jupiter in Baalbek, Lebanon, 2nd century.
- 25. Architecture vs Buildings Venustas, Utilitas, Firmitas The Vitruvius ten books of architecture, 1st century.
- 26. Architecture without Architects Salonica in the 19th century, the Ottoman settlement.
- 27. The medieval town of Anticoli close to Rome, Italy.
- 28. Architecture and Values an example: Ornaments or Crimes?
- 29. Non-Western Architecture Persepolis Gate of All Lands, Iran, 6th century BC.
- 30. The giant vaulted hall of Taq Kisra, a Parthian palace on the Tigris, Iraq, 6th century.
- 31. 4 Meaning of Buildings tradition vs traditions rituals The emperor Justinian is donating the building of Hagia Sophia Reconstruction of the Solomon temple of Jerusalem
- 32. Pyramids of Giza, 3rd Millennium BC.