Towers

What is a tower? Name a famous tower. What is the purpose of a tower? What is the structure of a tower?

Pair Share Talk with another student at your table and record your findings in your Arts Process Journal. Write the questions in your journal, then your findings.

What is a tower? Name a famous tower. What is the purpose of a tower? What is the structure of a tower? (shape, form)

Share Out Each table will share with the group their findings – Famous Tower – Purpose – Structure

What is a tower? Name a famous tower. What is the purpose of a tower? What is the structure of a tower?

A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide.

Towers are specifically distinguished from 'buildings' in that they are not built to be habitable but to serve other functions.

The principal function is the use of their height to enable various functions to be achieved including:

visibility of other features attached to the tower such clock towers

The principal function is the use of their height to enable various functions to be achieved including: part of a larger structure to increase the visibility of the surroundings - castle

The principal function is the use of their height to enable various functions to be achieved including: a structural feature - part of a bridge

In contemporary times, we often call tall skyscrapers a tower. Willis Tower

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Towers in Literature y/22/ten-best-towers-literature-mullan y/22/ten-best-towers-literature-mullan

Tower Defense Games defense-games-list/reference defense-games-list/reference

Architecture in Video Games importance-of-architecture-in-video-games- and-virtual-worlds/#.VTT9bIG-18E importance-of-architecture-in-video-games- and-virtual-worlds/#.VTT9bIG-18E

Let’s look at some tower structures. Take notes about the towers. Do a quick power sketch of each next to your notes.

Water Tower

Eiffel Tower

Leaning Tower of Pisa

Kuwait Towers

Three Pagodas Dali, China

Qutb Minar, India

Orbit by Anish Kapoor

Orbit by Kapoor & Balmond Britain’s biggest piece of public art Kapoor worked with structural designer Cecil Balmond London’s Olympic Park

Cloud Gate

Kapoor Red Tower olympic-tower-competition-for-london-2012/

Watts Towers

Watts Towers “fanciful spires pieced together over a period of thirty-three years from steel reinforcing rods and wire mesh, colorfully decorated with seashells and fragments of broken dishes and bottles” from Sylvia Hart Wright. Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture: From Postwar to Postmodern. p111

Watts Towers are an example of Outsider Art. Outsiders Art is art created by: – Self-taught artists – Outside of the established art scene

I Build the Tower Full length film The story of Simon Rodia & the Watts Towers of Los Angeles

An 82-foot-tall tower made out of thousands of books — 30,000 such “bricks” to be precise? We can see book lovers’ eyes light up with glee in view of all the reading material, only to be extinguished by the thought of such a waste. But bookworms and environmentalists can relax and rejoice! Not a single volume was harmed in the process of building this massive structure.

The “Tower of Babel,” as it is officially called, was the brainchild of acclaimed Argentinean artist Marta Minujín. Minujín devised the tower in celebration of Buenos Aires being chosen as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) 2011 World Book Capital. The used raw materials were donated by libraries and readers eager to help, as well as more than 50 embassies.Marta Minujín

Create a minimum of 3 sketches for your tower. Think about the purpose. Think about the profile shape

If you missed some notes, get help from people at your table. Then start on your sketches.

Criteria 15” tall MUST stand up Visual interest on all sides Have a purpose

Criteria Original – NOT a copy of an existing tower. Can reference a tower: Physical Popular Culture Literature or History