Wall Project: Brick Walls

Examples of brick walls this partition dividing the service parking area of the Gatewood Arts building south side. A example of a stand alone wall. The photos above is the front wall of the Weatherspoon Arts building the brick pattern varies in different designs giving the face of the building an artistic design.

WALL PROJECT: Hidden In Plan Sight

These are two photos of my wall project. Can you find my artifact for Grimm's Fairy Tale, King Thrushbeard? Bet you can't find it. Constructing a wood frame wall with 2 by 4's sheeting and floor on a scale of 1" equals 1' 6inches by 9inches and 3/16th by 3/8th studes with a 6"by 6" floor.top plate and a bottom plate. I chose a wall paper pattern of books in the wall construction because the king in the story was a well educated man and every intelligent therefore he would have had books in his library.

OPUS PROJECT: Bridge between People and Things

Idiom: The language of the Art or profession, vernacular, jargon, things that are in common. Man's first evidence of life was burial grounds common to all
civilizations. Dick Heddige expressed forms of rituals of subordinate groups inherently reaction which renders object meaningful. 1. Understanding Architecture History and Theory. p.159 "Architecture is a shelter but also a symbol and a form of communication."Sir Herbert Read.

Our study of the subject matter, drafting, the vernacular is related to all are classes- design linguistics. Vernacular buildings lack of "theory" pretensions work with the site (what's available), respect for others environment.
Idiomatic: additive, subtractive semiotic relationship. Semiotic the study of signs and sign using behavior. 1.Swiss linguist Ferdinand De Saussure, "the life of signs with society. 2.Charles Sanders Peirce did seminal work in the field.
He defined a sign as "something which stands to somebody for something" he categorized signs into three types: the icon, a symbol and an index. In our architecture courses we use signs to signify direction, grade, position style, a jargon of the trade in order to read a blue print one has to be able to read the signs of architectural design. In our study of Ancient architecture we read about the signs, icons, symbols the Egyptian, Greeks and Romans i.e. left for us to interpret an discover.

1.) http://www.britannica.comEBchecked/topic/534099/semiotics>
2.)http://www.britannica.comEBchecked/topic/534099/semiotics>

Commodity Firmness and Delight

Stonehenge on the chalk downs of Salisbury Plain from Salisbury England.

This complex was built in three major stages over a period of 1200 years. It is believed that it was built by many generations. This site was built out of stone in three stages using a post and lentil construction. What the commodity of this site, people are not sure. Perhaps some religious significance. Through out the world there are other sites such as these. The stone faces on Easter Island in Hawaii. Carnac burial site in Ireland rows of large cylinder stones.most of these sites had some type of religious significance.

Credit for photos: www.wikipedia.com

Pat's Desk/chair model

Project 1

Desk Chair:

This a picture of my desk/chair for design graphics class measure 6' by 4' on scale of chipboard

materials. The stool is apart of the desk on the left side. There are two shelves stack on top of each other. Table size is 2' by 3' wide and shelves are 1' by 2' high.

Five Citations From History and Theory Week 2

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  Illuminate:> To brighten with light,to use light to apply emphasis on a subject in art. Brighten intellectually or spiritually, enlightened, elucidate, emphasize.
  Louis I Kahn states that there was no true architecture without natural light. (Roth p86.) The perceptions of textures is dependent upon the quality of light falling on a building. Studies have found that light creates psychological and physiological effects on living things. Great artist used the effect of light to focus on paintings such as The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa. Baroque architects used light to focus attention on certain areas in their churches.
  The Temple of Amon at Karnak was not only a place of worship but also a center of enlightenment of learning. The Egyptians worshiped the sun they called their god RA. The Temple of Amon has it's axis pointing toward the winter solstice sunrise.
  
  
  
• In art class we studied light in the form of water coloring vignettes a little color and then the back ground of the white paper lets the light shine though. Light is the most effective element in creating a sense of mystery and awe and the manipulating of light is the principal agent in the creation of shrines and religious buildings.(p.88 Understanding Architecture Leland M.Roth)
  Another form of illumination was fire the discovery of fire in early civilization. The discover of the creation of man in Africa and then migrating toward Eurasia because of severe climate change the discovery of fire for warmth who controlled the fire was in control. In the cave as L'Escale, France the oldest known hearth was found some 750,000 years ago. ( Roth 161)
  Not that fire relates to our study but it is wonderful to be warm inside when it is so cold outside.
  Credit for photos: Nina Aldin Thune Wikimedia Commons
  
  
  

Artifact from Grimm's Fairy Tale King Thrushbeard

I chose to make a reverible vest for the theme of the Grimm's fairy tale King Thrushbeard. The theme for me could have more than one meaning but I chose "things are not always what they seem" or," don't judge a book by it's cover".

The vest was made of metallic fabric drab gray on one side and then bright vibrate green on the other. I chose to represent the Beggar-King in the story.

To relate this story to architecture one cannot assume the basis for a structure on appearances only. Our reading states that we look at awe at some of the architecture and perceive that it must be light because it's made of glass like the Lever House or the Hapero Hall Pharmacy at Wayne State University, Detroit

where the building rest on its smallest point. Both of these building are structurally sound. Pg. 26..27 Understanding Architecture Its Elements, History, and Meaning by Leland M. Roth.