Ordering architecture

1. Order, the Imposition of Human
Constructs
A. ORDER BY IMPOSITION
 Order - upon analysis, is found to
consist in correspondence,
iteration, and the presence of fixed
ratios between the parts.
 The need for order makes man
creative and conservative and at
the same time defends against all
charges. A common order is called
culture.
 Design is the conscious effort to
impose meaningful order.
 Each generation feels a new
dissatisfaction, and conceives of a
new idea of order. This is
architecture.
Order
is
In order is a
creative
force...
Thru the
order –
what...
The same
order
created the
elephant and
created
man...
Order does
not imply
beauty...
Order is
intangible...
Order
Supports
Integration..
Design is
form-making
in order...

The term ‘order’ derives from the Latin ordo and ordin-,
row, series, rank, class, or degree, and is also related to ordiri,
begin, and ornare, adorn.
There are two Greek terms used to mean order – one is kosmos, “to
order or arrange”. The other is taxis, “the orderly arrangement of
parts.”
To the ancient Greeks, architecture consisted of arrangement, which
not only involved the placing of parts in relation to one another, but
elegance of composition.
There were subcategories of arrangement, called ideai in Greek,
which for architecture were the ground plan, elevation and
perspective.
Vitruvius says that order “gives due measure to
the members of a work considered separately,
and symmetrical agreement to the proportions
of the whole.”

Victor Papanek wrote 3 central concerns of design as a universal preoccupation:
1. It is a conscious act.
2. It seeks to elucidate meaning.
3. It imposes order upon an otherwise less-than-orderly world.
Order is basically balanced arrangement of the details of a work separately, and,
as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportions with a view to a symmetrical
result.
Order has two basic schemes;
a. The Grid (it may be radial-concentric aka polar or quadrangular)
b. Tri-partition (the inside and outside arrangement, the border elements, and
the enclosed elements.)

THE GRIDS TRI-PARTITION
Vertical Tri-partition: Bottom-Middle-Top
Lateral Tri-partition: Edge-Centre-Edge
Quadrangle
Polar

2. Hierarchy : A Special Case of Order
 A formal structure generally consists of primary and secondary
elements, or exhibits a still more complicated hierarchy. The
primary elements are by definition basic to the structure ; if they
are taken away the composition disintegrates… The Secondary
ones, instead, may be treated with high degree of freedom,
though care must be taken that they donor interfere with the
primary elements.
1. Hierarchy comes from the medieval
Latin (h)ierachia stemming from the
earlier Greek ierarches (ieoros,
scared + arches) high priest.
2. The term relates to priestly rule, and
in everyday usage means ‘a body of
persons or things ranked in grades,
orders, or classes, one above another,
especially in science and logic form.
TRACE:

Trace: From the Latin simplicitas or simplex, simplicity is the form, state
or condition of being composed of a single portion or structure and an
absence of complexity, intricacy, or adornment.
Art theorists and esthetician to propose that in esthetic judgment
“moderate simplicity is necessary if we to intuit relations and shapes at
all, instead of a great blur of confused masses and lines ,and moderate
complexity.
Simplicity was to receive another boost with the onset of the modern
movement from the early twentieth century;” it was an attempt to purify
architecture ,to remove the accretions of style to get back to simple.

Simplicity may not be quite the basis of truth as has been thought but rather a
degree of complexity that contain a lesson for modern thinking.
Alignment with simplicity provide an ideal and a perfect solution.
If simplicity has been achieved, the desire for simplicity remain high. Simplicity will
also main the mark of originality in the working out.
Architects known for the simplicity of their building s appear to bring a clarity of
thinking to bear on the task that somehow eliminates confusion and unnecessary
aspects.
Many architects of the modern movement towards simplicity wanted a uniformity
that Demetri Porphyrios (1978) term homotopia, a quality he defined as ‘the
kingdom of sameness; the region where the landscape is similar.’

B. Method: Telling Tales and Naming Places
 There were two ways to be delivered; the one Historical by
description of the principle work and other logical.
 The most banal event to become an adventure we must (and tis is
enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people a man is always
a teller of tales.
 A person trying to solve a problem whether in science or elsewhere
must be given complete freedom and cannot be restricted by any
demands.

• Method is an attempt to distill rationality from unique
design events to create a universal narration out of the
distillate.
• Narration derives from the Latin word “ gnarus “ Knowing
and is the action of relating or recounting a factual story or
account.
• Design narration is thus method the action of bringing into
factual account the designing rative-would be the factual
account.

There are four process of designing patterns and method is purportedly the tool. It
has to be imagining process:
1. The mental process architects use to invent places is the thrust of research in
to creativity while the “channels” and contexts conductive are the subjects of
method.
2. Method, if is anything at all, is the invention of a topographic representation of
the facts of a particular task of a scale and former suited to a particular
designer.
3. Design method is the sequence of “play” adopted by a designer is more like
the action of a game.
4. Consider the design projects as real live process and action of minute by
minute activities. They are uncertain and risky.

3. Model Methods for Model Designers
 There is a black box method which work well but no body work well. It
is like syhiectics.
 The glass box method which logical matter but didn’t work.
 There are many reasons for the attempt failure of modern architecture
and complete analysis of paradigm.

• Another word for model is paradigm “ The ancient Greek word
paradigm means a physical model and a pattern of any sought of
an artist or architect ”.
• Stanley fish defines foundationalism which means as any attempt
to ground inquiry and communication in some thing more stable
and more believe and their believe or un examined practice.
• On the other hand anti foundationalism teaches that questions of
the facts truth , corrections, validity and clarity can neither poses
and nor answered in reference to some extra contextual
abistorical.

There are four primary philosopher of methods whereas three of them are
scientific and the fourth one is more circumspect view of scientific thinking:
1. The designing is a matter of arraying of the parameters of the design tasks
such that with proper understanding.
2. The designers have cognitive schemas or pre structures that they bring to their
designing and the design is a question of value.
3. The designing is the normative science with the predictive base in that in
consist of paradigms that operates consistently until they undergo a change or
shift by virtue of arguments.
4. The designing is utterly embedded in a a way we structure a view of the world
and may be inherently in communicable in worlds.

• Conceptually the scientific models of method & even the
synthesis model advertise its objective but never fully
convinced architects to depend on them .
• Models helps students in narration while presentation
• The most elementary level of method is concept statement
which is inspired by some architect who pay tribute to their
teachers for years afterwards.
• Institutions maintaining architectural education have most
embraced methodology

RATIONAL ANALYSIS &
MYSTIFYING SYNTHESIS
 Creativity does not demand for transparent will, not a beautiful
surface & not the construction but synthesis, & its not the sum of
details in a building but the unplanned passion .
 Architecture is successive series of process & analysis to a
synthesis even the spirit transform by creativity with deep
physiological sensations result from them.
 Perception of harmony comes to us from clear cut mathematical
quality.
 It is then everything that serves everything that is helpful is
excelled.
 Its a proper thinking & investigation that helps in forming concepts
that are dialectically intimate.

TRACE
 Analysis Greek: analyein (ana; up or back + lyein,
to loose)
 Logically analysis is the tracing of things to their
sources or the discovery of general principles
underlying phenomena.
 Its a modern sense of analysis resolving complex into
its simple elements.
 Synthesis Greek: synthesis composition or
information( syn, with, together + thesis, a placing)
 Many architects apply principles to produce
consequences that is opposite to analysis.

COMMENTARY
 Traditional philosophy employs the symbolism of
weaving that refers “ the wrap may be said to represent
principles which binds together all the world or all the
states, each of its threads forming connection between
corresponding points in the different states;
 The weft, the chains of events that are produced in
each of the world, each thread being .
 The development of the events in a given world.
 Those who do not subscribe to traditional doctrine,
synthesis presents real difficulties.
 The neologism might be a useful addition to
architectural discourse to suggest the closer weaving
of syntalysis, as opposed to the looser weaving of
analysis

IS THERE ROOM FOR
ANARCHY
 THERE IS NO NEED TO FEAR THAT THE WEAKENED
CONCERN FOR LAW & ORDER IN SCIENCE & SOCIETY
THAT CHACRACTERIZES AN ANARCHISM OF THIS KIND
WILL LEAD TO CHAOS.
 IT WAS THE EXCESS OF THIS ANARCHY WHICH
BROUGHT ABOUT AS A REACTION THE DESIRE FOR
SYSTEM & THE TASTE FOR THEORIES.
 INCONTRAST TO THE PRESENCE OF PAST IN POST
MODERN ARCHITECTURE,NONORIGNAL ANARCHE
CNNOT BE REPRESENTED.
 IMMEMORIAL,UNREPRESENTED,& THE EXCLUSIVE
ANARCHY CAN NEVER BE CAPTURED IN THE PRISON
HOUSE OF LANGUAGE

TRACE
 Anarchy Greek; anarchos, meaning: without a leader.
 Describes any state of lawlessness percieved from within an
established order.
 Anarchy is not a quality that readily springs to mind in
architecture, so its impossible to conceive an architecture as
non-masterly building, unless it is vernacular.
 Anarchy has arisen in architecture during times of major
ideological conflict, an essential phase in which paradigm
shift occurs in sciences

COMMENTARY
 The notion of an architecture is especially provocative in
view of the modernist project to create an architecture of its
time.
 Adopting a less radical sense of anarchy, it is possible to
conceive of design generally as disturbing an existing
situation.
 A comparison can be made with the cultural critic &
anthropologist of ritual in early western tribal cultures.
 Medieval jesters or jokers, for an instance, represented the
poor deformed classes hand a physically inferior position.
 In a highly stratified society jesters were marked ad the
inferior group.
 In many respects architects are expected by society to be
different, & it is important that architects do not miss the
opportunities that affords them.

CONCLUSION
What are laws? Or phases, or changes, or directions and especially architecture?
They are nothing but human concepts, devised by us, and layered over the world as a
means of giving it order and making it comprehensible.
So, if architects speak of order, hierarchy, chaos, simplicity, complexity, and the impact of
time, they are speaking about themselves and their own needs.
I cannot think that the world... Is the result of chance; yet I cannot look at each separate
thing as a result of Design. I am, and shall ever remain, in a hopeless muddle.
(Charles Darwin 1888)
Knowledge which is derived from wonder is unhappy unless it relates itself to other
knowledge. And this relation of knowledge to knowledge is what you might call a sense of
order; a sense of the position of this knowledge in relation to other this around. When we
get a sense of order not just knowledge or information – then we are happy. We wink at
wonder and say, “ How am I doing wonder?” Because wonder is activated by this
knowledge, and better still, by this sense of order.
(Louis Kahn 1962)

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