Experiencing Architecture

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Talks about painting on stone and facades (he likes it) and talks about how it was in fashion in Georgian and Victorian London but then went out of fashion and came to be regarded as dishonest.

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There is also a clear and interesting rhythm in all of Alvar Aalto’s work. If we compare his Finland building at the New York World’s Fair, with its undulating interior wall, with Frank Lloyd Wright’s glass shop, I am sure that most people would find Aalto’s work the more natural. But he must be judged by his everyday architecture. His extraordinary employment of contrasting textural effects and the organic manner in which he builds up his structures are immediately apparent. But it is his firm grasp of the whole that makes his buildings so amazingly vital. Chapter Seven Textural Effects Tweed, A. A Phenomenological Framework for Describing Architectural Experience. Multimodal Technol. Interact. 2018, 2, 80. [ Google Scholar] In 1959, Steen Eiler Rasmussen (visiting professor at MIT) wrote a book called “Experiencing Architecture” to teach many students about experimentation of architectural products starting with a photograph of a king riding bicycle. The book is quite straight-forward to explain basic things about architecture especially for architecture students. What I realized as an interesting fact is that same book can be guide for non-architect people to understand architect’s choices about their designs. I will mention some of the points that are placed in the book. In that way, it may help to reduce the sense of “crazy architect”.

Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Hon. FAIA (9 January 1898 – 19 June 1990) was a Danish architect and urban planner who was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a prolific writer of books and poetry. He was made a Royal Designer for Industry by the British Royal Society of Arts in 1947.

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Two key types of texture in Architecture - one rough and like the basket and the other smooth like pottery. Speculation that the form of the church with its acoustics directly lead to the singing and playing in harmony. -see quote

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recite or intone. In large churches with a marked reverberationthere is frequently what is termed a “sympathetic note”—thatis to say “a region of pitch in which tone is apparently reinforced.”If the reciting noteof the priestwas close to the “sympathetic note”of the church and Hope Bagenal tells us that probably both ofthem were, then as now, somewhere near A or A flat—thesonorous Latin vowels would be carried full-toned to the entirecongregation. A Latin prayer or one of the psalms from theOld Testament could be intoned in a slow and solemn rhythm,carefully adjusted to the time of reverberation. Rasmussen, S.E. Experiencing Architecture; MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, USA, 1959; p. 33. [ Google Scholar] FLW discussed a little and some other Modernists who use Grandeur and Richness. Eric Mendelsohn is mentioned. Carl Petersen of Denmark is mentioned.