ARCH&UD 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gerrit Rietveld, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Peter Eisenman
23 Feb 2017
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Chessboard is an abstract form of a territory. Allows you to maintain and access information. A large national debt needed to be paid off there was not much knowledge of west of ohio river. The abstract grid is about thinking about the land needing to be put to use, subdivided, ordered, to have some abstract relationship to other modules or systems. Manhattanism might be the capital of the 19th century. The grid is used for architectural structure. Abraham receiving the angel, the sacrifice of isaac: Look at the way the picture is framed. Everything needs to be squeezed into the frame. An illusion of space there is a grid on the ground it is completely out of scale of the architecture she stands in illusion of space. Makes us see out of scale or in scale. Our eyes are trained to see things through this way to discriminate things that are in the order of the system.
