Unit-5 - Understanding Architecture PDF
Unit-5 - Understanding Architecture PDF
Unit-5 - Understanding Architecture PDF
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Understanding Architecture:
Introduction:
Architecture is arguably is the most accurate, the most truly revealing, human cultural
artefact. Architecture is something many people take for granted, moving through it and using it
without a second thought. Architecture, however, is the crystallisation of ideas. It has been defined
many ways – as shelter in the form art, a blossoming in stone and a flowering of geometry, frozen
music, human triumph over gravitation and the will to power. One should remember that
architecture, besides providing shelter, is symbolic expression.
UTILITY
10% 90%
FACTORY
LIBRARY (1880)
MODERN RESIDENCE
LIBRARY (1980)
CORPORATE HEADOFFICE
CHURCH
90% 10%
MONUMENT
SYMBOLISM
The above picture shows the relative components of function in different types. A factory is largely
utilitarian, where as monument is largely symbolic.
↑Louis I Kahn’s Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, the working laboratory area – large,
multifunctional spaces, with small individual private study rooms with central courtyard. L I Kahn
showed that architecture is more than functional utility or structural display – it is the vessel that
perpetually and inescapably shapes human life.