DBA Deconstructing Beauty in Architecture
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DBADeconstructing Beauty in Architecture
SCCV 2013
Sweden’s most beautiful house?
All buildings must be executed in such a way as to take account of durability, utility and beauty.
Vitruvius
To describe a building as beautiful therefore suggests more than a mere aesthetic fondness; it implies an attraction to the particular way of life this structure is promoting through its roof, door handles, window frames, staircase and furnishings. A feeling of beauty is a sign that we have come upon a material articulation of certain ideas of a good life.
Alain de BottonThe Architecture of Happiness, 2006, p72
The IdeaThe contemporary contextAssumption of societyAssumption of the human beingA way of life
The BuildingScale, color, light, textures, materials, form, proportions, symmetryCostExpression of the ideaReferences/ associations
The MaterialUsefulness, work performed; shelter, activities
The AestheticIndividual level, experience, reactions, emotions, feelings
The SymbolicSocial level, social/ cultural context, associations, meaning, identity, communication
"Architecture is always marshalling possibilities from all directions to do something that hasn't happened before,” … "Not for the hell of it, not for your ego but to create a degree of progress and make life more adventurous and give a sense of drive to society as a whole.”
Rem Koolhaas
Experiencing architecture
Solids and cavitiesColorScale and proportionRhythmTextureDaylightHearing
Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Experiencing Architecture, 1959/ 1992
Per Åman, PhD
FORMAND
FUNCTIONSUBSTANCE AND SIGNIFICANCE
The buildings
• Chosen to represent different aspects of ’beauty’– Classicism– (Romantic)– Modernism– Post-modernism
An example
Schloss Neuschwanstein, Bavaria, Germany
Buildings assigned, in group order:
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Villa Rotonda, Andrea Palladio, 1570, Italy
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Villa Savoie, le Corbusier, 1929, Paris, France
3
Guggenheim Museum, Frank Gehry, 1990s, Bilbao, Spain
4
Seattle Central Library, Seattle USA, Rem Koolhaas & Joshua Prince-Ramus, 2004
Fallingwater, 1935-39, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bear Run, Pennsylvania, USA
Kölner Dom, Cologne, Germany
Monticello, Thomas Jefferson, ca 1772, Charlottesville, Va, USA
Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, USA, Mies van der Rohe, 1945-51
The Forbidden City, Beijing, China