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A Train Station – An Urban Square – A Christian Church
For
Aurora, Illinois
Instilling the Opportunity of Community
within the built Fabric
The Activation of a Worldview
Through Architectural Design
• Community Through the shaping of Urban Space and Built Fabric
– Humanity Created to be in Community– You can lead a horse to water – But you can't make it drink
• Elevation of the Human Spirit through Beauty– Roger Scruton and the importance of Beauty– Quinlan Terry and reflection on Classical
Architecture– Demetri Porphyrios Classical Architecture is not-
style
• Clarity of Civic Importance– Through Clarity of Civic Presence (Krier)– Through Decorum of Morphological Development – Through Long Lasting Structure
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The Activation of a Worldview
Through Architectural Design
• Community Through the shaping of Urban Space and Built Fabric
– Humanity Created to be in Community– You can lead a horse to water – But you can't make it drink
• Elevation of the Human Spirit through Beauty– Roger Scruton and the importance of Beauty– Quinlan Terry and reflection on Classical
Architecture– Demetri Porphyrios Classical Architecture is not-
style
• Clarity of Civic Importance– Through Clarity of Civic Presence (Krier)– Through Decorum of Morphological Development – Through Long Lasting Structure
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Community
Through the Shaping of Urban Space and Build Fabric
• Humanity Created to Be in Community– “In his Poetics, Aristotle pointed out that all people are marked by specific physical and
behavioral attributes.”– “The Classical idea of character, however, never stressed individual but always typical
traits”, or the collective conscious as scribed by John Ruskin.
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Community
Through the Shaping of Urban Space and Build Fabric
• You can lead a horse to water • The provision of community does not necessarily mean
that community will be fully realized.
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Community
Through the Shaping of Urban Space and Build Fabric
• but you can't make it drink– A framework can provide the ability of community
but there is still the need for the choice of the end user.
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Community
Through the Shaping of Urban Space and Build Fabric
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The Activation of a Worldview
Through Architectural Design
• Community Through the shaping of Urban Space and Built Fabric
– Humanity Created to be in Community– You can lead a horse to water – But you can't make it drink
• Elevation of the Human Spirit through Beauty– Roger Scruton and the importance of Beauty– Quinlan Terry and reflection on Classical
Architecture– Demetri Porphyrios Classical Architecture is not-
style
• Clarity of Civic Importance– Through Clarity of Civic Presence (Krier)– Through Decorum of Morphological Development – Through Long Lasting Structure
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Elevation of the Human SpiritThrough Beauty
• Roger Scruton and the importance of Beauty
– In his book Beauty, he lists the necessary pieces of judgment to qualify the idea of beauty in architecture, as well as other things in life.
• Beauty pleases us.• One thing can be more beautiful than another.• Beauty is always the reason for attending to the
thing that possesses it.• Beauty is the subject matter of a judgment: the
judgment of taste.• The judgment of taste is about the beautiful
object, not about the subject’s state of mind.• Nevertheless, there are no second-hand
judgments of beauty.
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Elevation of the Human SpiritThrough Beauty
• Quinlan Terry and reflection on Classical Architecture
“Who Lest all though of Eden fade,Bring’st Eden to the craftsman’s brainGod like to muse o’er his own trade
And Manlike to stand with God again.”Rudyard Kipling
– Genuine classical buildings improve with age because of their use of traditional materials and detailing.
– Building for a hundred years rather than for the moment
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Elevation of the Human SpiritThrough Beauty
• Demetri Porphyrios Classical Architecture is without style
– Beauty is found through experience and knowledge– Classical Architecture is without style rather it relies
on the experience of the designer through personal knowledge.
– “it is not the personality of the artists that determines the work rather the techne (craft), as a body of knowledge, know-how and skill.”
– “What differs from one artist to another is the degree of knowledge and skill or virtue; there is no indication of a personal style that transcends the knowledge of his [craft].”
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The Activation of a Worldview
Through Architectural Design
• Community Through the shaping of Urban Space and Built Fabric
– Humanity Created to be in Community– You can lead a horse to water – But you can't make it drink
• Elevation of the Human Spirit through Beauty– Roger Scruton and the importance of Beauty– Quinlan Terry and reflection on Classical
Architecture– Demetri Porphyrios Classical Architecture is not-
style
• Clarity of Civic Importance– Through Clarity of Civic Presence (Krier)– Through Decorum of Morphological Development – Through Long Lasting Structure
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Clarity of Civic Importance
• Through Clarity of Civic Presence– Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community– Built Fabric is a balance between res publica
and res economica which combine to create the civitas or the identity of the city
– When speaking of the city, Krier states that, “[i]f factories have the facades of cathedrals and houses resemble royal palaces, if museums look like assembly lines and church like industrial warehouses, a basic value of the body politic is threatened, the very nature of its public realm is in peril.”
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Clarity of Civic Importance
• Through Decorum of Morphological Development
– Demetri Porphyrios uses the word decorum to prove a sense of what is, “proper, suitable, ‘fitting’”
– Based on a sense of “moral typology” which fit within the fabric of, in this case, the city.
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Clarity of Civic Importance
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Clarity of Civic Importance
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Clarity of Civic Importance
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Clarity of Civic Importance
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Clarity of Civic Importance
• Through Long Lasting Structure– Through Designing buildings that can maintain their
civic importance for a thousand years.• Built in Sustainability
– Masonry Load Bearing structure• Above adequate R Values• Simplicity of construction for the brick and stone
layers– proven materials support the idea of sustainability
• Aercrete– A chemically modified concrete block which is lighter and takes
less energy to make
• Recycled Clay Brick– From local structures and reuse stores
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