ARCH&UD 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Georges Seurat, Eiffel Tower, Joseph Paxton
22 Oct 2018
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Ad vitruvius says origin of architecture is origin of society, language, and technology. Architecture is a continuous with process of humans as they produce culture. The origin point of human existence is continuous with architecture. History and architecture begin at the same time. Continous process where humans are making technological upwards progresss. Middle of the 18th century there was an alternative use of the word nature. Laugiere writes essay of architecture to say architecture is a way to correct errors. Capacity to read in nature the essence of architecture. Nature exists in advance of any origin point it is a kind of myth from which we can derive principles. Not all architecture is going in the positive there is some going negative and in order to correct that we need to find principles (principles of nature) If we look back at nature, as the muse does, we will find the essential principles to correct architectures flaws.
