1. Understanding Architecture
Chapter 6 The Architect:
From High Priest to Professional
Daedalus
Famous Greek architect, inventor, and craftsman

2. The Architect/Client Relationship
Architecture results ONLY when a client or patron calls it into being
The history of architecture is also a history of the relationship between architect and patron

3. Arkhi “chief” + Tekton “builder”
Greek architects were directors of workmen and so possessed theoretical knowledge as well as practical skills, however there are no theoretical treatises nor drawings

4. Medieval Master Masons
Guilds (collegia)
Provided training
Created a network for the transmission of ideas
Supported travel to other sites to see work underway and jot down personal observations
Rudimentary tools, parchment [sheepskin] drawings [sketchbook of de Honnecourt]
Worked both as designer & contractor/builder

5. Renaissance Architect
Practical wisdom and theoretical study
Humanist Artists trained as painters, sculptors
Palladio “Four Books on Architecture”
Da Vinci
Michelangelo
Brunellesci
Alberti

6. Renaissance Architect
Models were preferred but drawings and sketches were also used
A model of the Villa Foscari (La Malcontenta) at the Royal Academy's Andrea Palladio exhibition. Photograph: Nils Jorgensen/Rex Features

7. École des Beaux-Arts
Creation of a royal architecture using the classical idiom led to the formation of a corps of architects and builders: the Royal Building Administration
The confusion and mis-starts on the design of the east facade of the Louvre led to the establishment of the Royal Academy of Architecture in 1671 later reorganized as the École des Beaux-Arts
The path to success as an architect in France was to study at the École

8. The Architect’s Dilemma
Social Responsibility:
Should the architect be an activist and attempt to reform society, to shape environments according to how life ought to be lived [eg. Bauhaus]; or
Should the architect reflect prevailing social values and shape environments according to how life actually is lived?

9. Ritual of Blood
Meso-America
Aztec God-Quezalcoatl

10. Two classical Meso-American architectural forms: the pyramid and the ball-court
Temple-Pyramid I
Tikal, Guatemala

11. A bloody sacrifice of human heart is offered to the god Huitzoilophochtli
Temple Pyramid I,c Tikal, Guatemala

12. Ball Court c
Maya Site of Chichén Itzá, Yucatan, Mexico

13. Carved Stone Ring, Great Ball Court, Chichén Itzá, Mexico

14. Tezontle
A local volcanic red-dull pumice stone used so that the city foundation will not sink into the soft grounds in Mexico

15. Caracol Observatory, c. 9000 Chichen Itza

17. Originally supporting the roof of the Temple of Quetzalcoatl, Tula Mexico. C. 700
Warrior Columns with Butterfly Breastplates

18. Roof Comb, the Cresteria
Temple of the Sun, c.700
Palenque, Mexico

19. Turtle House,
c Uxmal, Yucatan
Mexico

20. Palace of the Governor c
Uxmal,Yucatan, Mexico

21. Pyramid of the Niches
El Tajin, c
Mexico

23. Machu Picchu, c.1500
Peru