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
Even in Britain, long ago, most
people made their own
buildings
Gradually a gap developed between
‘building’ and ‘dwelling’
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:
• Planners: specialists • Architects: move
even more into the
in social and
art camp
management issues
Architecture
Art
Design
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
Buildings: the unique selling
proposition
Permeability
Integrated network
In the end this creates a problem
Perimeter block
Active interface
Vitality
The Admirable Types
of
Responsive Environments
From perimeter blocks to monuments
TO UNDERSTAND HOW A NEW
URBAN ARCHITECTURE IS
EVOLVING
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.