{"id":1486,"date":"2025-01-22T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:53:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:53:32","slug":"materials-and-techniques-of-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1486","title":{"rendered":"Materials and techniques of architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Architecture has to work structurally because it is functional. It is holistic because the materials and processes employed fundamentally impact the structure of a building. What it is coated or decorated in is another matter that we would call that the style of the piece.<\/p>\n

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This is the difference between art and design; the latter is design led and must be functional as such while the former is not.<\/div>\n
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Unlike art, humans cannot choose to dismiss architecture. Infact our lives are defined by the buildings in a way, especially in urban spaces.<\/div>\n
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The advance on material science in the 19th made it possible for ua to build narrower and taller structures. The only building that had approached this historically were Gothic cathedrals, a lot of which collapsed due to structural limitations; usually aa a result of the weight of the materials used. It only became possible for architects to truly manifest their innovative visions when these new materials became available.<\/div>\n
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Like the Guggenheim museum that was built by frank Lloyd Wright.<\/div>\n
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FallingWater – he wrote the architectural designs in 4 hours.<\/div>\n
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People did innovate historically to overcome structural issues by building in a different way e.g. colloseum and the Roman’s use of arches.<\/div>\n
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Le Corbusier was a father of modernism \/ modern architecture. He is also responsible for a lot of the awful 70s\/ 80s architecture built by local planning authorities who were trying to render cheap copies of his buildings.<\/div>\n
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What kind of functions does architecture need to provide? For example, security and shelter, longevity and aesthetic.<\/div>\n
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What are buildings made from?<\/div>\n
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Sedimentary <\/div>\n
Readily available and easier to shape e.g. sandstone <\/div>\n
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Metamorphic<\/div>\n
Sedimentary took that’s been changed by heat e.g. marble. Weathered better but still erodes over time.<\/div>\n
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Igneous<\/div>\n
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Load bearing capacities of a building:<\/div>\n
Is crucial and is intrinsically bound up with the material chosen for the build.<\/div>\n
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Generally speaking the lighter the material the less robust it is; however strength can be improved by the design chosen e.g. wood is less load bearing than stone but offers strength if used as a frame that pushes together to create a more rigid structure.<\/div>\n
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Conversely, the heavier the material, the stronger it is, but also the greater the mass of support needed to carry the weight toward the base.<\/div>\n
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Western architecture: the classical orders of ancient Greece<\/div>\n
Watch who were the Greeks for an overview.<\/div>\n
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Classical architecture behins woth the Greeks they originally built in wood but want it to have more longevity so starred using stone. <\/div>\n
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They started with my girth and squatter. As they grew in confidence building this way with stone they started building higher.<\/div>\n
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Architecture has to work structurally because it is functional. It is holistic because the materials and processes employed fundamentally impact the structure of a building. What it is coated or decorated in is another matter that we would call that the style of the piece. This is the difference between art and design; the latter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}