ART 2385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Clerestory, Ashlar, Weight-Bearing

• School: Virginia Tech
• Department: School of the Visual Arts
• Course: ART 2385
• Professor: Ann- Marie Knoblauch

Document Summary

Think about the tradition of borrowing and innovation in architecture across cultures and different. Using byzantine and islamic architecture as examples, discuss how they both borrow from ancient roman prototypes while also creating new structural, stylistic and decorative architectural formats in order to fulfill their own specific needs or symbolic meanings. Carefully choose two examples (1 byzantine, 1 islamic) that make a good comparison with both each other and also allow you to refer to roman precedents. Think about what is characteristic of byzantine and islamic architectural styles. Sinan, mosque of sultan selim (islamic) vs. hagia sophia (byzantium) Flanking conches (halfdomes) extend the central space into a longitudinal nave that expands outwards from the central dome to connect with the narthex on one end and the halfdome of the sanctuary apse on the other. Same way of fitting a dome onto a square building- half domes, etc. Clerestory windows create the feeling of a (cid:862)floati(cid:374)g(cid:863) do(cid:373)e a(cid:374)d a heave(cid:374)ly at(cid:373)osphere.