Architecture is defined as the art and science of designing and constructing buildings. It involves thoughtful design to create usable and beautiful spaces through consideration of structure, form, light, and materials. The meaning and interpretation of architecture has historically focused on new forms, but it is important to also study the meaning architectural works convey.

1. introduction
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architecture

3. definition and scope
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4. Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses
brought together in light.
Le Corbusier
Architecture is produced by ordinary people, for ordinary people;
therefore it should be easily comprehensible to all.
Steen Eiler Rassmussen
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
Louis Kahn

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webster.com/dictionary/architecture

6. ARCHITECTURE
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The
architecture The product or result of architectural work: buildings
collectively
and SCIENCE
architecture A style or method of building characteristic of a people,
place or time
of DESIGNING
architecture The proffession of designing buildings and other
habitable environments
and CONSTRUCTING
architecture The conscious act of forming things resulting in a
anything of coherent structure
BUILDINGS
Ching, Francis D., A Visual Dictionary of Architecture, Van Nostrand Reinhold,1997.

7. looking and seeing
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What
is
ARCHITECTURE

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Architecture is ‘frozen music’…
Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture
approaches the effect of music.
music
(attributed to) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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14. firmitas, utilitas, venustas
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18. process
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19. WHAT
DESIGNERS
DO....
Frank O. Gehry
Guggenheim Museum
Bilbao, Spain, 1991-97
Tadao Ando
Hompuku-ji Temple
Awajishima, Japan 1989-90
Awajishima Japan, 1989 90
Zaha Hadid
Vitra Fire Station
Weil am Rhein, Germany, 1988-93
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20. Eric Mendelson : Einstein Tower; Potsdam, Germany, 1920. , design sketch
... PASSING A WAY
FROM THE FIRST SKETCH
TO A DETAILED DRAFT ?
Eric Mendelson : Einstein Tower; Potsdam, Germany, 1920. ,
photo of the building

21. material and construction
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33. structure
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34. precedent
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Design and innovation builds on precedent,
on ideas and concepts that have evolved over time.
Architecture uses precedents from social and cultural history
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and applies these influences to contemporary buildings, forms and structures.
Having a historical understanding of buildings is an essential part of architectural
design because it allows a relationship between the material, physical and formal
developments that have been previously explored by other architects.
Reacting against, or responding to these ideas
has been the basis of architectural evolution.
Lorraine Farrelly, The Fundamentals of Architecture

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46. meaning
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Architectural history as we know it has been written tacitly adhering to the
crudest version of the paradigm of communication: all the attention has been
focused on the design of the new forms, none on their interpretation. It is
time to realize, that even within the limits of the paradigm of communication,
there should be a history of meaning, not only a history of forms.
Juan Pablo Bonta

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You think philosophy is difficult enough,
but I can tell you it is nothing to the difficulty of being a good architect.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

49. Introduction
Exam preparation:
Professor s
Professor’s lecture and presentation
Ching, Francis D., A Visual Dictionary of Architecture, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1997.,
“Architecture”, pages: 10,11
Farrelly, L. , The Fundamentals of Architecture, Ava Publishing , 2007., pages: 8 - 11; 34,35.

50. Prepared by:
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Dr. Sc. Nermina Mujezinović
architect
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