ARC181H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Eurythmy, Caveman
20 Mar 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Vitruvius - book 1 chapter 1 and 2. Reason education leaves a lasting remembrance, drawing helps sketch out ideas, and geometry teaches us the rules needed to make plans: 5. Knowledge of history is needed for ornamentation: 7. High-minded no work done without honesty knowledge of physics is needed: 8. mathematical principles and understanding it, 10. needs an understanding of geography, soil, climate, location, etc, 12. A lot of studying to do for one person however all studies have common bonds cannot reach perfection: 17. didnt write this book as a writer but as an architect. The fundamental of the architecture: 1. arch. relies on order, arrangement, eurythmy, symmetry, propriety, and economy, 2-9. The origin of the dwelling house: 1. Moving from caveman to educated individuals: 2. discovery of fire made men come together used caves, leaves, sticks, mud, etc. to make dwellings, 5. Depending on the location and resources each dwelling looked different, and used different means of creating houses: 6.
