unofficial blog for course ARCH243

Lehigh University
Art Architecture and Design
113 Research Drive
Building C
Bethlehem, PA 18015

Matthew

Matt 10/7

Cut – Streets cut through communities creating fragments of buildings.

Merge – When buildings from different communities collide, they merge creating one.

Implied area – Trimmed elements create implied areas

Containment – Certain streets create a boundary containing a community within.

Community – A collection of buildings in a repetitive pattern. Together the buildings create a larger shape with the extents of the buildings

Grid – Several orthogonal streets create a grid. Grids are also produced by building placement.

Combination – Combinations of elements produce the city such as

  • Large/small grids
  • Contained/open communities
  • Wide/narrow streets
  • Simple/complex buildings
  • Straight/curved streets
  • Organization/randomness

Quotes

  • “The artist (architect) as both something of a bricoleur and something of a scientist!” (105)
  • “Collision of palaces, piazze and villas, to that inextricable fusion of imposition and accommodation, that highly successful traffic jam of intentions” (106). – regarding Seventeen Century Rome
  • “Rome provides the most graphic example of collisive fields and interstitial debris… a composition of gridded fields… with conditions of confusion and picturesque happening in between” (107).

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