This document discusses principles of architectural composition including unity, dominance, harmony, vitality, emphasis, and fluidity. It provides examples to illustrate each principle. Unity creates a feeling of wholeness through common visual elements like color or style. Dominance establishes a primary visual element. Harmony involves a pleasing interaction of compositional elements like proportion and repetition. Vitality adds interest through contrasting colors, textures, and forms while still maintaining harmony. Emphasis draws attention through horizontal or vertical accents. Fluidity creates a smooth, graceful flow or movement of spaces and compositions.

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3. Dominance

4. Harmony

5. Vitality

6. Emphasis

8. Principle of unity is concerned with VISUAL COMPOSITION in design.

9. Visual composition produced by relationship between visual elements.

10. Unity creates a feeling of wholeness. Unity is usually achieved when the parts complement each other in a way where they have something in common. Unity can be achieved by use of the same color, or different tints of it, or using a similar graphic style for illustrations.

11. Unity creates a feeling of wholeness. Unity is usually achieved when the parts complement each other in a way where they have something in common. Unity can be achieved by use of the same color, or different tints of it, or using a similar graphic style for illustrations.AR0120 Theory of Architecture

13. Harmony

14. Vitality

15. BalanceElements of composition to be considered: Texture Color hue and tone Direction Proportion Solid and void Form or shape

16. Falling Water house- Use of materials and form are dramatic but harmonious. Opera house – rhythmic repetition of petals show unity Solid – void – a dominance Chapel at Notre Damn Du Haut , Paris

18. The detailed requirements of function and stability in buildings results in a number of visual elements.

19. Roofs , walls, windows and doors provide colors, tones , texture , direction , solid and void.

20. As the number of visual elements increases the competition increases.

21. So the need is felt for visual dominant to avoid dualities or competition of equal interest.Residential Apartments , Canada Sphere building

24. Direction

25. Proportion , form

26. Repetition of forms or shapes can be used to produce rhythm and harmony

28. geometry

29. Direction

30. texture

31. ProportionHarmony by repetition Ducal Palace

33. Dominance The element given the most visual weight, the element of primary emphasis. The dominant element will advance into the foreground in a composition. One of the aspect of dominance is emphasis and vitality.

35. But too many contrasting elements or too much of contrast

36. Will impair harmony and tend to produce a multiplicity of equal interests.

38. texture, direction

39. proportion

40. solid and void

43. A forcible or impressive expression

44. An insistent or vigorous way of attributing importance or enforcing attention

45. Horizontal or vertical dominance by the composition of forms.

46. By surface articulation ,Linear pattern of windows

47. Vertical projecting columns ,Fins on the surface, bands,

48. Roof projections

52. UN Studio for Dubai Museum Ben van Berkel architect