Architecture as Art

Definitions of Space

ARCG 314: THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE

LECTURE 4
 Every art is an articulation of a …… 2
when an …. is articulated, it becomes an art.

 Paintings articulate ………………………………...

 Music articulates ……………………………………
 Sculpture articulates ……………………………….
 Poetry articulates …………………………………..
 Drama articulates ………………………………….
 Literature articulates ………………………………
 Dance articulates …………………………………
 Film articulates ……………………………………..
 Photography articulates ………………………...

A THEORY OF ART: A THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE

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Architecture:
Architecture is the articulation of space
What is space?

Space as Emptiness
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Emptinesss
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Space as Nothing 6

Space and Thing

Nothingness - Somethingness 7
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Nothing is emptiness

Anything can be empty

Everything is also empty

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In cosmology:
it is scientifically

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something to arise
from nothing,
providing further
evidence for the Big
Bang...
 Space as Void 10

Absence of things
Architecture of Void 11
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The Solid and Void
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Form and Space

Solid and
Void
Space is the absence of 14
things
Space is the gap between things 15
In space – surrounded by things 16

Philosophy
Religion

• We are most familiar with ‘in-spaces’

 Under -space 17

All spaces are under the Sky

 We are comfortable with ‘under-spaces’

On space 18
Between 19

Spaces
Side Spaces 20
In spaces, On spaces, Between spaces, Side spaces and 21
Under spaces
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Architecture as Click
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Spatial Poetry
Articulate
in-spaces,
on spaces,
under spaces,
between spaces, and
side spaces,
rhythmically and in
composition
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