Intro Forelaesning v. Niels Park Nygaard

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Constructing January

- What is an architect?

- Gottfried Semper and the Vier Elemente der Baukunst

- The joint: adoration and ignorance

- Some books

- Some examples


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- What is an architect?

- Archi = superior

- Tect : from tekton , carpenter (since Homer ‘builder’ in general;in late antiquity the tekton is used as a metaphor for the poet )

Greek: tektainomai , to buildSanskrit: taksan, to (use the) axe


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- So an architect is a CHIEF CARPENTER?


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- The tectonic applies to a series of art forms, ”such asutensils, vases, dwellings and meeting places of men…

We call this string of mixed activities tectonic ; their peak isarchitecture which mostly thourgh necessity rises high and canbe a powerful representation of the deepest feelings

Karl Otfried Müller, 1830: Handbuch der Archäologie der Kunst


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- ”Tectonic becomes the art of joinings. ‘Art’ here is to be

understood as emcompassing tekne, and therefore indicatestectonic as assemblage not only of building parts but also of

objects, indeed of artworks in a narrower sense. With regard

to the ancient understanding of the word, tectonic tends

toward the construction or making of an artisanal or artistic

product…. It depends much more upon the correct or

incorrect applications of artisanal rules, or the degree to

which its usefulness has been achieved. Only to this extent

does tectonic also involve judgment over art production.

Here, however, lies the point of departure for the expanded

clarification and application of the idea in more recent art

history: as soon as an aesthetic perspective – and not a

goal of utility – is defined that specifies the work and

production of the tekton, then the analysis consigns the term‘tectonic’ to an aesthetic judgment.”

Adolf Heinrich Borbein, 1982: Tektonik, zur Geschichte eines

Begriffs der Archäologie


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Gottfried Semper and the Vier Elemente der Baukunst:

- The earthwork

- The hearth

- The framework

- The enclosing membrane

The STEREOTOMIC

The TECTONIC


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The Crystal PalaceJoseph Paxton, 1851


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- The earthwork

- The hearth

- The framework


The STEREOTOMIC

The TECTONIC


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- The framework

- The hearth

- The earthwork

The TECTONIC

The STEREOTOMIC


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- The framework

- The hearth

- The earthwork

The TECTONIC

The STEREOTOMIC

”It is characteristic of our secular age that we should overlook

the cosmic associations evoked by these dialogically opposedmodes of construction; that is to say the affinity of the frame forthe immateriality of the sky and the propensity of mass form notonly to gravitate toward the earth but also to dissolve in itssubstances.”

Kenneth Frampton, 1995: Studies in Tectonic Culture


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Heimdal, Kræftens Bekæmpelse, Aarhus: Gehry / CUBO


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Torvdalshalsen, Lofoten, Norway: 70¤ Nord Arkitektur


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Hjerting Strandpromenade, Esbjerg: Spektrum Arkitekter


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Balcón del Manubles, Moros, Spain: Sergio Sebastián Franco


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Bridge across l’Areuse, Boudry, Switzerland: Geninasca Delefortrie Architectes


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