Lazy Sunday: Rain, Jazz, Architecture

From Archetypes in Architecture: (con't)
C. The Frame

1. Columns (in rows) can be used to divide space.

D. Colours

1. "Plain drawing is an abstraction...because everything in nature contains colours."
2. Colours used to embody specific meanings.
3. "Does an individual colour have a given and unchangeable meaning?"

E. The Windows-->Openings

1. Windows of different sizes, according to spatial function.
2. Shapes as an expression of motion.

F.  Functionalism and Open Space

1. "The walls of functionalism were made white and thin like a skin that swathed the volumes underneath."
2. Overlapping and Technology

• Activities float in the "great space"
• Development of a structure surrounding empty space

G. Final Word

1. "We find that architects during any given period are influenced by a common architectural language...bound together by a common intention which is typical for the period."