ARCH&UD 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: New Idea, Uptodate, Louis Le Vau
10 Dec 2017
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Think about how measuring either produce symmetry, proportion of ideal, or how it also technologically mediated result, eg, heat of body. Heat in room a new set of technology that oriented architecture, meditated the world, measuring fundamental to look and feel of archi. Humanist: centering the figure, the breaking point is the anatomy was an object of scientific description. How interpret the physical image, results of renaissance were no longer divine that direct. Organize archi: a law, a norm that conform to. That tradition (scientifically led idea) can continue as a lineage. Bucky: in the technological control, you can produce environment more comfortable for humans. Measuring: an evolution of tech giving human autonomy and defying god. Tech no longer comfort but compete and destabilize us. It seems to be doing work no longer for us but also dominating us, that the blur could be critical to tech whether positive or not. He is omnipresent, like the sun is everywhere.
