ARCHST 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Flying Buttress, Loggia, Avola
21 Aug 2016
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2 basic types: organic(unplanned) and geometric(neat and planned) City form: city of babylon: gridded layout dominance of the temple complex prevalils, big gates to get into babylon colbalt blue tile symbolized safeness of the city, pyramid cities of egypt gridded hierarchy. In order to build the pyramid they built a city to house the people building the pyramid now the houses are more open to the streets and have windows. Timgad: public buildings with structural advancements no one king or one god. Towns and cities filled with churches ex: mantua and venice. Romanesque churches: stodgy, think walls to support weight of the roof: gothic churches: columns/ piers, thinner walls, greater heights, flying buttress: structural features to support roof weight. Art on buildings were promising of heaven and hell. 1100-1300 city design during later middle ages(public squares church of civic) Palazzo del broletto: sacred civic and commercial space. Plaza del campo in sienna: 1st secular square.
