ARC132H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ancient Greek Temple, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Thin-Shell Structure

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Before early 20th century, rarely use functional to describe architecture. Technology not viable at the time in germany. After moved to us, changed the mentality of building skyscraper. As opposed to the beaux-art style with base middle and top, designed buildings with uniform cross-sections. Curtain wall: glass wall hang from the structure. Partition wall inside is not stuctural, only for dividing space. Can tell all above by just looking at the building (mies architecture) Non-structural i-beam on the outside of the building as ornament. The use of tools to solve a practical problem. Drum, pieces used to produced columns, were produced off-site and shipped on-site and assembled. Vertical pattern curved after to draw attention away from horizontal joints. Muse sitting against pile of architectural pieces, pointing to a greek temple like structure. Embodied structure, free standing column compared to baroque. Figured out the math of structure before actually building it. Start differentiating what was structural and what was not.

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