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:

•Architects: move even more into the art camp

•Planners: specialists in social and management issues

Art Design

Architecture

Environmental Infrastructure: Aeons

Public Space Network: Millennia

Plots: Centuries

Buildings: Decades

Components: Indeterminate

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

FRANK GEHRY:$130,000,000

TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE NATURE OF ARCHITECTURE HAS

AFFECTED URBAN FORM

Buildings: the unique selling proposition

PermeabilityIntegrated network

VitalityActive interface The Admirable Types

of Responsive Environments

Perimeter block

In the end this creates a problem

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.