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But that exploration could also heed Albert Einstein’s sage counsel:"If you wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods he uses...don’t listen to his words, examine his achievements." The same could well apply to architecture.
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Whilst this contextual ‘snapshot’ firmly articulates an orthodox modernist position, the so-called post-modern world has offered a range of alternatives borrowed from literature and philosophy which in turn has offered architects a whole new vocabulary of form-making well removed from what many had come to regard as a doctrinaire modernist position. In this new pluralist world which revealed itself in the last quarter of the twentieth century, architects found themselves consumed by a ‘freestyle’ which on the one hand in revivalist mode quarried the whole gamut of architectural history or on the other borrowed so-called ‘de-construction’ from the world of literature.
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Harnessing the climate to improve human comfort is nothing new; the Greeks and Romans well recognised the benefits of designing dwellings whose principal rooms faced south to improve thermal comfort. But in some climates, designers are met with the problem of cooling spaces to improve comfort, and here, similarly, we can look to tradition.
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Shock scale is of limited use architecturally but has been put to effective use by exhibition designers or in advertising to startle and excite the observer. It depends upon familiar objects of known size being exaggeratedly expanded or reduced so that they are seen in often amusing scale relationships with their environment like a beer bottle hugely enlarged to serve as a brewer’s dray.Painters like Dali also employed the idea of shock scale for Surrealist effect.
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But every practising architect knew that this restrictive linearmodel of the
design process flew in the face of all shared experience; the reality of designing did not conform to a predetermined sequence at all but demanded that the designer should skip between various aspects of the problem in any order or at any time, should consider several aspects simultaneously or, indeed, should revisit some aspects in a cyclical process as the problem became more clearly defined.
Sayfa 2 - Moreover, design theorists urged designers to delay as long as possible the creative leap into ‘form-making’ until every aspect of the architectural problem.
Architects were quick to embrace techniques from other disciplines, most notably structural and mechanical engineering and applied physics to generate new building types. The development of framed and large-span structures freed architects from the constraints of traditional building techniques where limited spans and loadbearing masonry had imposed variations on an essentially cellular plan type. Now architects could plan buildings where walls and partitions were divorced from any structural intrusion.
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