The “importance of phenomenology”, as the title goes, is the inevitable question which I keep […]
Week 7 HW
For me, phenomenology as described in these articles ultimately is the delicate balance between a […]
10/19 Building and Dwelling
In my last blog post, I addressed how language affects society’s unconscious views on the […]
Week 7
After our lecture on Wednesday and even after the readings I still see phenomenology as […]
Week 7
I believe the Phenomenology is a kind of connection between the community and the architecture […]
Week 7: Phenomenology
In the first lecture when Professor Han asked us each “What is architecture?” I responded […]
Phenomenology
Architects tend to create the space and imagine how the blocks that we live […]
Analogical architecture
I liked the Rossi reading about analogical architecture because it explained, in detail using examples […]
Typology
Typology is how architecture is defined. It’s taking the the physical characteristics of thne structure […]
Week 6: Typology & more Rossi
From all the different perspectives and theories we have read and learned about, Aldo Rossi’s […]
Week 6: Moneo’s Comparison
One section of Rafael Moneo’s “On Typology” that I found to be of particular interest, […]
Typology
“The Third Typology” was the text that grabbed my attention the most because it clarified […]
Typology and Functions
“The “utopia” of architecture as a “project” might be progressive in its ends, or nostalgic […]
Week 6: Aldo Rossi (again)
“L’architettura sono le architetture.” The above quote from Aldo Rossi, loosely translated as “Architecture is […]
Post 6: Typology
I find Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” particularly interesting because the perception of truth […]
Week6
There are few types of terminology for architecture. The first one “saw architecture as imitative of the fundamental order of Nature itself, llied the primitive rusticity of the hut to an ideal of perfect geometry.” (Vidler, […]
Analogous Utopia
The extract from Anthony Vidler’s The Third Typology examines three Architectural typologies that have developed […]
10/6 Restrictions of Language
Raphael Moneo’s “On Typology” explores the statement: “The very act of naming the architectural object […]
Week 5: Permanence
I would say that one of the main goals of any architect designing a building […]
Week 5-Rossi
Starting off I feel that Rossi unlike the previous readings tends to be less like […]
Week 5: Rossi and the City
Throughout the first excerpt from “The Architecture of the City,” Rossi gives a lot of […]
City Part 3
In the first passage by Rossi, he explains how the city represents itself through its […]
The City
In excerpt 1, Rossi discusses architecture in the American city in terms of its artifacts. […]
Week 5: Rossi
In his Introduction to the First American Edition of The Architecture of the City, Rossi […]
Walls
In the first excerpt, Aldo Rossi emphasizes the complex dimensions of the city and how […]
Post 5: The City (part 3 of 3)
Aldo Rossi explores the meaning of architecture and thus the meaning of a city through […]