thereby clearing the road toward an environment-conserving architecture: one that is an enemy of waste,jealous in the preservation of inherited knowledge, careful inthe use of material and energy resources; an architecture rec-onciled with both nature and culture.
This reminded me of Sandy's presentation, how is working towards architecture that limits the use of concrete and uses the natural clay around
The Larkin building,
looking at Wright's Larkin building and Fallingwater, they seem so different! I don't think I would have guessed Write designed the Larkin building
Taylorist methods
??? is a production system that aims to increase productivity by dividing the manufacturing process in small steps to reduce the degree of skills required to perform each activity.
“Any house is a far too complicated, clumsy, fussy, me-chanical counterfeit of the human body. Electric wiring fornervous system, plumbing for bowels, heating system andfireplaces for arteries and heart, and windows for eyes, nose,and lungs generally. The structure of the house, too, is a
I find this paragraph comparing the functions in the human body to the functions in architecture to be captivating!
To Wright, the mechanical imitates the organic;42toLe Corbusier, it is the organic that must be contemplated inmechanical terms:
This makes me think about the ideas both these architects have and how it is shows within their work.
With Wright, I think about the work of Fallingwater where the architecture is built with the nature around it and how his ideas of "mechanical imitates the organic" shows.
With Le Corbusier, ( I don't know much about him) but by looking up some of his work and observing some images such as the Villa Savoye and Colline Notre Dame du Haut, I think about how his ideas of "the organic that must be contemplated in mechanical terms..." shows
poiesis
In philosophy, poiesis is "the activity in which a person brings something into being that did not exist before."
man’s capacities for movement and work, similar to the limbsof the body and reducible to the same vital principles, as thelimbs, in their turn, are reducible to mechanisms which aremoved directly by the ‘soul.
I really like this line and how Leonardo is comparing and interpreting the function of mechanism with biology.
this makes me think about how the previous chapter was talking about structures maintaining homeostasis
In this way we can un-derstand that if there are mechanical organisms, so are thereorganic mechanisms; that if there is an automaton nature, sois there a natural automaton, and that the two are interrelated
I found this paragraph to be intriguing
machines began to move, transmitting energy to all parts ofthe vast organism which, as if touched by a mysterious hand,woke up to life. . . . What a marvelous scene!
ohh wow! what a great scene to depict!
lathe
a machine for shaping wood, metal, or other material by means of a rotating drive which turns the piece being worked on against changeable cutting tools.
brise-soleil
comes from the french word meaning sun breaker.
It is a type of solar shading system that uses a series of horizontal or vertical blades to control the amount of sunlight and solar heat that enters a building.
by now far from the trivial exampleof the thermostat, on repair and rehabilitation processes,
I find it interesting how in this text it's talking about architectural forms behaving similarly to living organisms; how they need to consume energy continuously in order to maintain morphological organization. I've never thought about homeostasis applied to architecture.
The concept of homeostasis applied to architecture centers on repair and rehabilitation processes makes me wonder and imagine how a building may maintain its way of homeostasis with the environment that is continually changing and time pushing against it.
This contradictsthe traditional view that associates stability with the com-plexity of the ecosystem, the variety of its species, and the re-sulting increased efficiency of its mutual regulation
this reminded me of a line on pg 93: Aristotle argued that Nature was continually changing...
anabolic and catabolic
Anabolic -builds complex molecules from simpler ones
Catabolic- breaks larger molecules into smaller ones
but the new arrangements of material elements represent thememory of the universe, and it is in relation to them thattime appears to be irreversible.”
This line makes me think about how house renovation can reveal evolutions of a house's history.
After all, matter also “remembers,” also files informa-tion. The earth’s layers remember geological ages, the ringsof a tree recall past springs and autumns, and the archaeo-logical mound is a reminder of the passage of cultures.
Thats amazing! I like those examples
Entropy is time’sarrow.
I like that idea
entropy
The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that "in all energy exchanges, if no energy enters or leaves the system, the potential energy of the state will always be less than that of the initial state." This is also commonly referred to as entropy.
Entropy is a measure of the number of possible arrangements the atoms in a system can have
This made me wonder what some examples of entropy are and one of the examples that popped up when I googled searched it was a campfire
What makes thermodynamics sodifferent from other scientific theories
good question...
To Le Corbusier, the sun is a luminous and regular signthat normalizes and organizes the life of human beings.To Wright, the sun is heat more than it is light, a begin-ning more than a regulator, a factor of change rather thanof stability.
reading this made me think about how the sun and fire differentiate in relation to architecture.
earlier in the reading it talked about how fire can be the center and start of life in tribes. Huts would be built around the flames and so the architecture would be built around the energy. This made me think about Wright's piece, "Falling Water" where he built his building around the falling water.
The sun, I was thinking is something that we can't control in hand so when it comes to architecture, we can use the sun's natural source of light and heat by constructing buildings. I think about how architects follow the sun using the knowledge they have of what direction it rises and sets.
Fire is thus associated with the house and the city infoundation rites—the establishment of the city, the creationof the home—and in subsequent civic and domestic cere-monies requiring the continuity of the flame, but it is so byvirtue of its role as an image of fertility and a metaphor oflife
This line reminded me of that project we had with the huge chimney about a year ago.
Indeed, the thermalspace of the bonfire is no less architectural than the visualspace of the hut.
I found this line to be interesting in the ways of how the space created by thermal energy is considered architectural. I think it's awesome when you can get a feeling of a space that there may not be much visually to look at.
ab ovo
is latin for "from the beginning, the origin, the egg"
nd Le Corbusier.
hellooo