Art 3210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Algebraic Curve, Calgary Herald, Nanton, Alberta
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Contemporary architecture and canada"s natural resources of wood, stone, water. Water in abundance in canada lakes, rivers, canals. Japanese structures pavilions with light weight post and beam construction no corner posts, posts at 1/3 inside no one has calculated decisions, all based on aesthetics, trial and error stone holding up wood. 10800 years ago man moved stone to make architecture (like stonehenge) result of the ice age. 1 - carved out of stone mountain nothing added, all subtraction from the mountain had to move stone away from site that had been chipped away. St peters basilica, rome everything brought in to form the basilica. Trevi fountain, rome chipped away at marble and stone subtraction process. Sun dance ceremony lodge, alberta temporary, occurs at various sites slowly disintegrates every year a new one is made, thus varying degrees of disintegration. Fort whoop-up located on water, so accessible by canoe built for whiskey trade vertical and horizontal wood, strength to it.
