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Methods and principles in

architecture
Prepared by Ephrem N.
Fantasy imagination and reality
 Fantasy - an unrealistic and
impractical idea.
'Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach
unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be
scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth‟.
Genesis 11:4-5
Archigram

 An avant-garde architectural group formed in the 1960s


that was futurist, anti-heroic and pro-consumerist
 Draw inspiration from technology in order to create a
new reality that was only expressed through hypothetical
projects.
 Committed to a 'high tech', light weight, infra-structural
approach.
 Experimented with modular technology, mobility through
the environment, space capsules and mass-consumer
imagery.
 Inspired later works such as the High tech 'Pompidou
centre'
The Walking City
 Intelligent buildings or robots that are in the form of giant,
self contained living pods that could roam the cities.
 The form derived from a combination of insect and
machine
 “A house is a machine to live in.” le corbsier
Fantasy, imagination and reality
 Imagination - ability to visualize:
 The ability to form images and ideas
in the mind, especially of things
never seen or experienced directly.
Imagination
Fantasy imagination and reality
 Reality - all that exists or happens: everything that
actually does or could exist or happen in real life.
 „Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it,
doesn't go away.‟
 REALISABLE
FANTASY (?)

 REALITY
Architects as types
The high born types
 Those who are born to be
architects.
 The likes of Tadao Ando

and F.L. Wright


Architects as types

The Intellectual types


 Not necessarily well educated but someone
primarily interested in the cultivation and
analysis of ideas, concepts in history and theory
too.
 Marcus Vitruvius
Architects as types
The critique types
 Those who pronounce judgment on the work of
others regardless of whether they themselves
can produce such works.
 Robert Venturi
Architects as types

The down to earthier


 Practical
 Get the job done
 Focus on reality, on facts, on tangible and
pragmatic results that can be understood and
utilized.
Architects as types

The plodder types


 Those who exhibit a willingness to undertake
works that require steady continuous, laborious
and potentially monotonous effort.
 Drafting room are full of plodders
Architects as types
Fantasizers
 Those who dreamed up and
propose buildings that seems
impossible to construct and
realize.
Architects as types

The manager type


 Those who live to run things, those who
love to be in charge, to have power, to
direct people and conduct operations.
Architects as types

The poet philosopher types


 Those who think architecture‟s essence resides
in its literary, cultural, symbolic, and
philosophical significance.
 John Ruskin – “the seven lamps of architecture”
Creativity
 A mysterious ability to find
something original and new in
the essence of talent.
 Creativity - capacity to have new
thoughts and to create
expressions unlike any other.
 A portrait is a picture in which
there is something wrong with
the mouth.
Type of creativity
Tangible Intangible
 History, the past  Fantasy, future
 The story of precedents  Metaphor
(standards)  Exotic and multi cultural
 Mimesis (imitations) and  Primordial and untouched
literal interpretation
 The paradoxical and
 Geometry metaphysics
 Materials  Poetry and literature
 The role of nature
Tangible creativity
Intangible creativity
Forcing factors of architectural design
as creativity.
 Program (the analysis of the project
purpose)….. Content
 Natural forces – geo - climatic
variations….. Context
 Cultural and historical factors…. Concept
Elements of architectural design as
creativity
 Styles and historical significances.
 Design vocabulary, form giving
operations (composition).
 Form, geometry and theories of
proportion.
 Built components and materials.
 The role of nature.
Composition

 Types of composition
 Bonding factors of composition
 Operations in composition
Types of composition

 Static; court house,


parliaments…

Dynamic; opera
house, stadiums…
Bonding factors of composition
 Proximity or adjacency factor
 Orientation or direction
 Similarity (harmony or contrast)
 Hierarchy, infancies or dominance
factor
 Datum (regulatory or controlling
factor)
 Scale and proportion
Operations in composition
 Articulation – attachment
 Blending - to make compile
with
 Chiaroscuro - effect of shade
and shadow
 Ornamentation…
Operations in composition
 Progression- descending or
ascending placement
 Transformation
 Modulation
 Orchestration – with material

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