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 BUILDING DWELLING THINKING  By reading Heidegger’s writing I realized some significant points. First of all, what you consider home is very relative. Home may be your workplace in the future , or simply a place where you feel comfortable. So, in conclusion it doesn’t matter if the place doesn’t have a sofa, a television, a buffet, an oven or all the other dwelling services. The importance is that these building which we call home,except our home where we live in, do serve the man’s dwellings for different purposes. This is exactly what Heidegger discusses in this reading. According to Heidegger  “For building is not merely a means and a way toward dwelling-to build is in itself already to dwell”.  In other words we take dwelling and building as two separate activities. One thing that Heidegger uses in his reading is the mentioning of language. It is the language that tells us about the essence of a thing. Language helps us to understand better the origin of the words which I’d li

We've been discussing about the technology and the impact it has on architecture for some time now .The text begins with a fact that is already known:”Technology is becoming more and more part of our lives and debates about this come up”.Handmade things are replaced by mechanisms that do everything automatically. Technological development has been defined by authors as a ”mission”,and I found it interesting. Another interesting idea that grabbed my attention, as I read the text, was that of the man who finds himself the captain of the boat he has built himself, and with a compass that doesn’t show the north, but is directed by himself.I think the author with this meant to imply that the development of technology gives the human being the possibility to control everything and to feel the god of everything.Thequestion that arose from this was: ”But is the man controlling technology or technology It should be said that the desire and thirst for knowledge was not well received initi

Architecture and technology  Creativity and traditional ways of making things are being involved in a process of homogenization. We need to understand that technology brings to us what we really need in the sense of functionality, even though the level of luxury in this possession is to be discussed. The common thing about creativity and an invention seem to be in some kind of way the process of thinking or originating idea that the two ought to have. The changes made in the basic concept divide these two as the background suggests for inventions that will accomplish the will, but in the other hand art in itself, closely related to creativity, isn’t something that comes from need, rather than the desire, even though the background still plays a role. The power and the concept of  knowledge is often misunderstood, because knowledge in hands of someone who has the idea to bring something different that will change the conception of a general idea based on what we already have, is

Architectonics of embodiment When we see the title of the study we imediately think of embodiment as an essential part of the research. Focusing on "The Architectonics of Embodiment" by Vesely. Since the very beginning is stated that the relation of the body to architecture and the complex phenomenon of corporeality have always had a privileged position within the history of European culture. Supporting this statement we have examples of authors regarding Vitruvius period,who compare the human body directly to the body of a building, and all the other authors which have focused and referred to the human body and propotions. The most critical aspect of the role of the body in understanding reality is the relation between the body and that which truly exists.Thereafter, the body is used to designate not only conceptual but also material reality. Referring to Plato we saw that he considered the body not as a given or something that can be isolated or defined as an entit

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RENAISSANCE MEMORY1: THE MEMORY THEATRE OF GIULIO CAMILLO The story of Giulio Camillo, the 16 century . fast-talking monk who got the attention of Francis I long enough to have the French king underwrite his project to construct a 'theater' capable of giving the 'user' access to any thought whatsoever , a real case of phantom memory , is covered by Lou Beery Winneker in her admirable dissertation, which includes a translation of Camillo's book (probably the only 'theater' he intended to construct) with a commentary covering Camillo's interest in Kaballa. Whatever happened to the wooden structure that some claimed to have seen is a mystery. Could it have been the prize theft of the count Goethe visits in Sicily? The important things to remember are that Camillo was a reader of Hebrew and a student of the Kaballa and its theory of the soul; Camillo was smart enough not to give away any secrets to the unprepared; Camillo was more than just aware of t

When the architect starts to design a building and to bring it into life, there are some steps which are essential and need to be known: It starts with locational analysis (responsibility of town planners and geographers),  environmental control (specialist of building design), Judgment over matters of cost (quantity surveyor), interior design (skills of an artist).  One word is used for very different concepts such as functional architecture, data architecture, solution architecture or enterprise architecture. In addition, boundaries between architecture and design are unclear. Some say they are similar concepts. Others argue that they are complementary concepts with different levels of abstraction.   To do so here are some ways generating 3 dimensional form: 1.        Pragmatic 2.        Iconic 3.        Analogic 4.        Canonic -Pragmatic design  Design is about making stuff, we make stuff to test our hypotheses. The word pragmatic itself says: dealing with things sen

 I think we all have heard the word recreation, because our daily life is connected to the art of recreation, as a visual process. This process is linked mostly with the sense of vision; for example, you see a hand which is painting, but you associate it with a human, and the first impression you get is the man painting a picture. After you see the entire “panorama” you see that the man actually is a woman. Another person may see another thing and another detail. The “secret” is in the way how we perceive things, there is no such objective correct idea, only subjective impressions of it. We have dealt with different topics in this course and if I asked you: Do you remember the Opera House in Sydney Harbor? I guess you do. If you have the chance to lively see it, I bet the first thing which will draw the attention will be the shell like structure of the overall work. Why do we see this thing first? Because we are familiar to this now, we have a background. The other person may see the

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