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Summarizing Alberto Campo Architectonic Systems
Summarizing Alberto Campo Architectonic Systems
Summarizing Alberto Campo Architectonic Systems
STRUCTURE
Architecture can be simultaneously complex and unitary. Structures and Construction in
a building are as important as the “layout” of the parts in the conception and design. In
short, all of these issues must play a role in the developing idea of the Project, from its
unitary conception.
HISTORY
The end of the Gothic period produces a certain phenomenon of such dispersion. When
at the start of the previous century structures were generally used in industrial
constructions or bridges.
TECHNOLOGY
Technology has a lot to do with all of this. To make the first compound structures, the
joints were entrusted to rivets and bolts, screws and nuts. Later on, welding could be
trusted
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Material:
Glass and Steel
ARC348:Architectonics
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Robert Venturi in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture talks about how architecture is
rationalized through rejecting and excluding complexities that emerge in architecture because the
building is essentially comprised of multiple paradoxes, from dealing with outside and inside, movement
and immobility etc.
According to him, a visually complex, constructed, environment is necessary and can exist between
regimented order and barren architectural forms.
He used Mies Van der Rohe’s statuesque pavilions that are known for their simplicity.
Venturi is hesitant of the oversimplification of architecture especially when he elaborates
on Mies’s infamous statement on modernism in “Less is more,” to “Less is a bore” because the complex
behavior of people and how they move through their environment is not reflective to one unified,
simplified form.
According to Venturi, complex architecture has multiple meanings which take part in a fluid system. The
meanings contradict one another when analyzed side by side but Venturi suggests that they should be
addressed together, not excluding one or the other for the sake of clarity in simplification.
“It is the difficult unity through inclusion rather than easy unity through exclusion,” acceptance rather
than rejection is ideal to achieve a rich architecture. The “difficult whole” is the challenge to unify the
numerous components that encompass an architectural form.