FRAME, FIGURE, FORM

Historical Places & Periods: Their Defining Idea,

Prominent Person, & Representative Art &

Architecture

FIVE MAJOR PERIODS & PLACES

RENAISSANCE

•FRAME: “humanism” •FIGURE: Leonardo da Vinci•FORM:

Renaissance

CLASSICAL GREECE

•FRAME: “Geometric Perfection”•FIGURE: Pythagoras•FORM:

Classical

Greece

PERSIA

•FRAME: “Symbolic Geometry” •FIGURE: Omar Khayyám•FORM:

Persia

MEDIÆVAL EUROPE

•FRAME: “teleology” •FIGURE: Aquinas•FORM:

Mediæval

Europe

MODERNISM

•FRAME: “Situation & Appropriation” •FIGURE: Le Corbusier

•FORM:

Modernism

SUMMARY• A Course structured in modules,

each looking at the art, architecture, & idea of a unique place and time.

• Together, the five modules form a structure that represents the shape and association of world images and shapes.

• Setting each module on one defining idea and one dominant figure gives good focus and energy: making the satellite of ideas in each place & period comprehensible to the students.