VALUES OF ARCHITECTURE

Andrea Alejandra García Brenda Ruiz Silva

Alejandra Rojas Torres
• According to Villagrán, architectural value will be integrated with forms of values:

• Tools
• Logical
• Social
• aesthetic

• Villagrán (comfort, firmness and beauty)

 WHAT IS USEFUL IN ARCHITECTURAL

This utility may or may not be valid depending on the approach given to
the architecture; what is not valid is creating without utility.

The useful as its own value means that the architect must reflect on the
very usefulness of the project he is developing in order not to lose the
objective of what is useful in architecture .
 THE LOGICAL IN THE
ARCHITECTURAL
Logical values are thoughts. Logic is concerned with studying the structure of
logical value.

The theory of knowledge or epistemology, its function. Thoughts are true or false.

Being true or being false constitute its forms of value and are forms of reality of
logical value.
 THE SOCIAL IN ARCHITECTURE
• Architecture, to be architecture, must serve society. It is a social good and it would
be a chimera to think of an asocial architecture since its deep genesis lies in the
satisfaction of biological, psychological, social and spiritual needs of man.

The premise is clear, or at least it should be clear and forceful regarding the
assessment of an architectural work.
• The study of the forms of aesthetic value presents us with two possible paths to follow: an
eminently dialectical one, supported by Aesthetics, and a practical or experimental one,
supported by the forms that are given to us as beautiful. Of course, both can be developed
with scientific rigor or concretized to the substantial and elemental.
Pure aesthetics tries to explain to us the essence of aesthetic values, both in the face of
natural objects and those created by man, which are particularly observed in the work of art.
It studies the phenomena of aesthetic taste, artistic creation and the structure of art and the
various art forms. Finally, it explores aesthetic culture and its projection in contemporary life.
• One idea is to condition what is beautiful in architecture to what is good or useful and what is
convenient; The other is to condition architectural beauty only to the truth.
• “Architecture is an art. A phenomenon of emotion. Located outside and beyond the
problems of construction.
 Le Corbusier took advantage of new
technologies, such as concrete, to create innovative
architecture. His five points of architecture were used in the
Villa Savoye and created a distinct building that united
architecture with engineering aesthetics. This building and
Le Corbusier's theories served to begin a new era of
architecture.
• What is useful has a structure that is studied analytically when constructing
economic theories, Under the designation of "comfort" and "firmness"
has been studied by Vitruvius says: "These buildings must be built
with attention to firmness, comfort and beauty ."
• (Aesthetics-useful) “The form follows the function” which is known as basic beauty,
which is not incompatible with ornament, but at the same time it should not only
delight the eye, but should also articulate the structure, symbolize or describe the
building, or more importantly, possess a useful function or purpose.
• “The rationalist Movement responds to the fundamental problem of the separation
between art and technique that arose from the Industrial Revolution.

• Rationalism brought together the most notable personalities of the Architecture of

this century, who based their designs on achieving the “Simplicity of Forms”
returning to the use of fundamental volumes, and as the main objective function
above ornamental evasion.
• Mies van der Rohe is very identified with this movement, so much so that he
increasingly tends towards the simplicity of form in his projects, the abstraction of
elements and the elaboration of rational plans that form a continuous space in which
each one Their rooms are integrated into the same space.

• His famous phrase “Less is More” is reflected in his Architecture, characterized by

the simplicity of the structural elements, its geometric composition and of course the
total absence of ornaments.
 • For Mies, the most important
Farnsworth House (Chicago 1950)
German Pavilion for the Barcelona Exposition in 1929,
thing is the pure beauty of the
elements and the functionality
that they have when creating
Architecture. He considers that
it is not necessary to delimit
the spaces from each other; he
prefers to have circulation and
a free vision of the flowing
space. through the necessary
structural elements.