Unit Summery 2

In this Unit the main topic was reverberations, which is the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped, caused by multiple reflection of the sound within a closed space or in short terms a reechoed sound. Through this topic we were taught first of the literal meaning, in the affects of music and architecture and there influences on one another. Then in a more metaphorical way of the reverberations of architecture though out history.
Feb. 7th: eyes dance across surface, music unfolds, light washes from above, worship spaces stand as tangible expressions of faith in glass and stone.
7th-expression of faith in stone + glass
9th-is all architecture frozen music
11th-composition
In this first week of the new unit one of the main concepts that stands in my mind is the relation between architecture and music and the idea behind the two complementing each other. David Byrne is the man that developed this way of thinking, he states of how architecture helped music evolve. With the influence of different spaces or regions on instruments, vocals, and or materials used, every type of music was influenced by the acoustics of the space of which they were in, as well as the other way around. Architecture evolved in many ways to better fit certain instrumentals.
Feb.14th: the first millennium ends, the modern world map unfolds: we see more enlightened places + people that previous notion of the “dark ages”
14th-unfolding scenes: a world of maps
16th-coke can cathedral
18th-regions + perspectives
We were then introduced to the introduction of maps and the ideas of more of a worldview and different perceptions through regions. The first idea behind a map or visual aid diagram was originally used by rhetoric students in ancient Rome as the” method of loci”. This is the method of memory and being able to recall different places, objects, or anything that they aim to remember. With this method students were able to create a sort of mental map. With this new view of the world architectures possibilities were expanded and people’s receptions were broadened.
Feb.21st: making rules to break with gothic ideas and re-link to the ancients of the western world: observing continuities with the past in the east.
21st-the great eastern + western design rule book
23rd-dialogues + conversations
25th-architecture of happiness
The renaissance comes to the world and is demonstrated through other buildings besides churches and cathedrals. The idea behind a building being able to influence a person spiritually and not necessarily religiously comes into play. There becomes a division between the east and west architecturally. They both create a rulebook of sorts but they follow different rules, the east maintains continuity with the past where is the west inspired to revive the past using classical language. Once these rulebooks are created, what is there to do next but break them? They begin to break them through detail, and in the way that the gothic period demonstrated power through height, they begin to emphasize it more through width and the amount of landscape a building could occupy.

Feb.28th: as western rules made + written, designers work across genre + scale to bend and break them; eastern designers maintain a continuous approach.
28th-spare no expense
2nd-coloring outside the lines
4th-nautilus
Across all scales there is great continuity in the baroque period which becomes the last great design movement. Throughout the renaissance the aim was to demonstrate the serene appeal of everything. Where is the baroque architecture aimed to show more of the movement in everything. The architects begin to occupy as much of the landscape as possible, not only involving the structure but also the landscape itself. Such as Versailles, hall of mirrors which links the palaces rooms with the gardens and giving it the appeal of much larger than it already is. The buildings begin to influence the gardens surrounding it. The goals of the elite are no longer height and mass but to exaggerate their power by the amount of land they own.
Mar.14th: colonial expansion brings ideas + people around the world, in the encounters, emulations and maintaining differences both become important.
14th-colonial expansion: breaking new ground
16th-semiotics + language
18th-an architecture parlent
With colonial expansion people from different regions of the world are introduced to new ideas and concepts pertaining to architecture. As said by Roland Barthes “There exist a normally hidden set of rules, codes, and conventions through which meanings particular to specific social groups are made universal.” Different regions have different climates and are affected in different ways by the material they have at hand, so that each region may have its own style and influences from the past that influence the architecture that surrounds them. In colonial expansion people from all over the world could expand their knowledge of the world and in turn many influential styles were translated back to the regions of which the people came from. Where is at the same time many cultures strived to make what was there’s different from the rest. Semiotics and language play a large role in any description or interpretation of architecture and therefore are a part of the architecture itself in the ways that I can be known.
Mar.21st: architecture and design obscure significant political, social, and cultural change brought by revolution and invention throughout the world.
21st-turning matters on end
23rd-industrial revolution and the world goes ‘round
25th-the dollar bill exercise
Through industrial revolution building began to be made more for efficiency than beauty. With the new machinery, products could be produced in mass quantities and at a faster rate. This also influenced the beginning of the modern movement, which continues on today, with this new engineering approach people could produce a new radical house, building or place in a faster more dramatic way.
The architects began to attempt and leave the past in the past and take a more futuristic approach to building in a way of complete originality of design with no precedents. Still today even with the attempts to leave the past in the past and create new original ideas influences of the past surround us. Just as in the dollar bill exercise, where we examined the dollar bill and came to realize the small effects of our past always playing a part in our futures.
All of this comes together in how each small aspect of the past, whether through music, colonial expansion, or the industrial revolution has influenced everything of what we are surrounded by today. Each new idea or concept, every architect willing to go against the trends and start a new style, and with the new worldly view architects have grown and influenced history as we know it today.