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DBA Deconstructing Beauty in Architecture

DBA Deconstructing Beauty in Architecture. SCCV 2013. Sweden’s most beautiful house?. All buildings must be executed in such a way as to take account of durability, utility and beauty. Vitruvius.

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DBA Deconstructing Beauty in Architecture

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  1. DBADeconstructing Beauty in Architecture SCCV 2013

  2. Sweden’s most beautiful house?

  3. All buildings must be executed in such a way as to take account of durability, utility and beauty. Vitruvius

  4. To describe a building as beautiful therefore suggests more than a mere aesthetic fondness; it implies an attraction to the particular way of life this structure is promoting through its roof, door handles, window frames, staircase and furnishings. A feeling of beauty is a sign that we have come upon a material articulation of certain ideas of a good life. • Alain de Botton • The Architecture of Happiness, 2006, p72

  5. The Idea The contemporary context Assumption of society Assumption of the human being A way of life The Building Scale, color, light, textures, materials, form, proportions, symmetry Cost Expression of the idea References/ associations

  6. The Material Usefulness, work performed; shelter, activities The Aesthetic Individual level, experience, reactions, emotions, feelings The Symbolic Social level, social/ cultural context, associations, meaning, identity, communication

  7. "Architecture is always marshallingpossibilities from all directions to do something that hasn't happened before,” … "Not for the hell of it, not for your ego but to create a degree of progress and make life more adventurous and give a sense of drive to society as a whole.” Rem Koolhaas

  8. Experiencing architecture Solids and cavities Color Scale and proportion Rhythm Texture Daylight Hearing Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Experiencing Architecture, 1959/ 1992

  9. FORMANDFUNCTION SUBSTANCE AND SIGNIFICANCE Per Åman, PhD

  10. The buildings • Chosen to represent different aspects of ’beauty’ • Classicism • (Romantic) • Modernism • Post-modernism

  11. An example SchlossNeuschwanstein, Bavaria, Germany

  12. Buildings assigned, in group order:

  13. 1 Villa Rotonda, Andrea Palladio, 1570, Italy

  14. 2 Villa Savoie, le Corbusier, 1929, Paris, France

  15. 3 Guggenheim Museum, Frank Gehry, 1990s, Bilbao, Spain

  16. 4 Seattle Central Library, Seattle USA, Rem Koolhaas & Joshua Prince-Ramus, 2004

  17. Fallingwater, 1935-39, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bear Run, Pennsylvania, USA

  18. Kölner Dom, Cologne, Germany

  19. Monticello, Thomas Jefferson, ca 1772, Charlottesville, Va, USA

  20. Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, USA, Mies van der Rohe, 1945-51

  21. The Forbidden City, Beijing, China

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