Unit 1: Introduction to Architecture and Meaning in Architecture 1. Definitions of ArchitectureI call Architecture frozen music

2. Context of architecture as satisfying human needs Seminal ideas that lead to development of modernism-modern architecture

Ornamentation and Crime -- Form Follows Function --

3. Functional aesthetic and psychological The worst state of affair is when science begins to concern itself with art Paul Klee To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers Klee One eye sees, the other feels Klee 4. Architecture as a discipline

5. Introducing the various functional aspects of architecture: Site, Structure, Skin, Services, Use, and Circulation etc

6. Introduction to the factors that lend meaning to architecture

7. architectural expression and symbolism

8. character and style

9. movements, philosophies, ideologies and theories

10. meaning and interpretation of architecture

Unit 5: Experiencing Architecture Understanding architecture in totality of the various aspects through firsthand experience, analysis and interpretation using the case of a building, architectural style, work (s) of contemporary architects

Modernist architecture emphasizes function. It attempts to provide for specific needsarchitecture is the art of satisfying human needs, with the application of scientific and analytical methods to design. Modernist styles includeStructuralism Formalism Bauhaus The International Style Brutalism Minimalism Features of Modernist Architecture 1. Little or no ornamentation 2. Factory-made parts 3. Man-made materials such as metal and concrete 4. Emphasis on function 5. Rebellion against traditional styles

Masters of Modern architecture Frank Lloyd Wright,Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,Walter Gropius,Le Corbusier,Oscar Niemeyer Alvar Aalto

In the later decades of the 20th century, designer rebelled against the rational Modernism and a variety of post modern style evolved. Postmodernism High Tech Organic Deconstruction