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Sir Nikolaus Pevsner ( ) was a German-born British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of architecture. He is best known for his 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74).

Buildings and Architecture Bicycle Shed is a building Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of Architecture

Lincoln Cathedral (in full The Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, or sometimes St. Mary's Cathedral) is a historic Anglican cathedral in Lincoln in England and seat of the Bishop of Lincoln in the Church of England. It was reputedly the tallest building in the world for 249 years (1300–1549).AnglicanLincolnEngland Bishop of LincolnChurch of Englandtallest building in the world

Buildings and Architecture Building „Nearly everything that encloses space on a scale sufficient for a human being to move in, is a building; Piece of Architecture „the term architecture applies only to buildings designed with a view to aesthetic appeal”

Aesthetics Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy. The term aesthetics comes from the Greek αισθητική (aisthetike) meaning "sensation" from αίσθησιν (aisthesin) or "sense."Greek The study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, the judgments of taste and the perception of the beautiful Aesthetics is closely associated with the theory of art and beauty.

Aesthetics 3 ways of a building for causing aesthetic sensations

Aesthetics – Treatment of walls Proportions of windows Relation of wall-space to window-space The relation of one story to an other Ornamentation (tracery, leaf and fruit garlands)

Language „the tracery of a 14th century window The lead and fruit garlands of a Wren porch

Tracery The curvilinear ornamental branch-like shapes of stone or wood, creating an openwork pattern of mullions

Porch A roofed entrance, either incorporated in a building or as an applied feature on the exterior,

Wren, Sir Chistopher ( ) One of England’s greatest scientists and architects, he was active in rebuilding London after the fire of He rebuilt St. Paul’s Cathedral, London (1673)

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Aesthetics – Treatment of the exterior Contrasts of block against block Effect of a pitched or a flat roof or a dome Rhythm of projections and recessions

The building as a volume Block against block Pitched or flat roofs The rythms of projections and recessions Three dimensional, a plastic unit, the sculpture’s way

Eiffel Tower Stephen Sauvestre Paris, France

Orvieto Cathedral Umbria, Central Italy

Mercedes-Benz Museum UN Studio 2006 Stuttgart, Germany

Notre Dame du Haut, Le Corbusier, 1955 Ronchamp, France.

Fallingwater Frank Lloyd Wright 1936 – 1939 Uniontowm, Pennsylvania, USA

Sydney Opera House Jørn Oberg Utzon Sydney, Australia

Gugenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry 1997 Bilbao, Spain

Aesthetics – Treatment of the interior Sequence of rooms The widening out of a nave at the crossing The stately movement of a baroque staircase

Space The importance of ground plans Architecture = space + volume + surface.

Aesthetics Treatment of Walls – 2 dimensional – Painting Treatment of Exterior – 3 dimensional – Sculpt Treatment of Interior – 3 dimensional – Arch. Space

Connection of Ground Plans and Architecture Presenting a building Presenting its Architectural quality What is the full aesthetic effect of a building?

Architecture as superior to other artistic forms Why is architecture superior to other forms of art? Space as an aesthetic media exclusive of architecture Necessary for human existence Why? Human history is inconsceivable without architecture

Notre Dame du Haut, Le Corbusier, 1955 Ronchamp, France.

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Architecture as superior to other artistic forms Is human history inconceivable without architecture? What does it prove if it is? – That there are no human beings without the practice of architecure? – That there is no human community without architecture? – That there is no human society without architecture? – That there is no human culture without architecture?

Architecture as superior to other artistic forms Is human history inconceivable without architecture? What does it prove if it is? – That we cannot conceive humanity without architecture? How do we explain this? Humanity and Architecure are necessarily bound to each other? We are that much used to architecture that we cannot imagine the world without it?

Architecture as superior to other artistic forms Is human history inconceivable without architecture? What does it mean that it is? – We cannot imagine a world without … What exactly? – How to define architecture? – Pevsner: „the term architecture applies only to buildings designed with a view to aesthetic appeal” – Is it true that we cannot imagine humanity without the existence of the above defined phenomena? – What is the more important feature of architecture? Necessity? Aesthetics?

Buildings and Architecture Bicycle Shed is a building Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of Architecture

Buildings and Architecture Building „Nearly everything that encloses space on a scale sufficient for a human being to move in, is a building; Piece of Architecture „the term architecture applies only to buildings designed with a view to aesthetic appeal”

Notre Dame du Haut, Le Corbusier, 1955 Ronchamp, France.

Fallingwater Frank Lloyd Wright 1936 – 1939 Uniontowm, Pennsylvania, USA

Sydney Opera House Jørn Oberg Utzon Sydney, Australia

Institut du Monde Arabe Jean Nouvel Paris, France

Gugenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry 1997 Bilbao, Spain

Mercedes-Benz Museum UN Studio 2006 Stuttgart, Germany

Eiffel Tower Stephen Sauvestre Paris, France

Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban, the National Parliament of Bangladesh Louis Kahn – Muzharul Islam Dhaka, Banglades

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