Fundamental Concepts of Architecture : The Vocabulary of Spatial Situations

181 overcoming of height is exemplified by the successive verti- cally layered structure of a flight of stairs. Protection again ...

182 Light and shadow are as essential to architecture as form and material. It is not simply a question of choosing the suitable ...

183 primarily a question of where it is admitted, directed, filtered, distributed and concentrated. It either breaks with searin ...

184 The combination of light apertures on various sides avoids having figures and objects appear only as silhouettes due to back ...

185 Changes between light and shadow serve to articulate and distinguish parts of a house and effect the internal zoning of acti ...

186 dynamism through directed tracks of light, the progression of intensity or the distribution of illumination, for example, si ...

187 rectly, i.e. by being reflected from surfaces or masses, thereby accentuating their three-dimensionality. The surfaces that ...

188 room in an evening to the gleaming brilliance of a festival, from the mystical gloom of a place of worship to the antisep- t ...

189 > covering, detail, layering, structure, tectonics > ground, heaviness and lightness, layering, structure, tectonics & ...

190 surfaces be touched, they can also be scanned visually as an extension of the haptic sense: we see the way something feels t ...

191 produced ornamentation. A distinctive formal language can be developed from the specific possibilities of treatment that are ...

192 > invitation character. Transitions of materiality from hard and cold to soft and warm can help to guide from exterior to ...

193 are also confronted from all sides with that which these forms whether individually or in their interaction – signify or ex ...

194 gather, disperse, align or enclose, in particular as dynamic qualities of architectural > gesture. These include > inv ...

195 vite people to assemble by means of the expressive force of the central structural and spatial form, thereby imposing on it ...

196 ronment are conditioned by spatial measurements, from the distance between our eyes and those of someone else, as deter- min ...

197 who has characterized the relationship between these three ‘levels of human existence’. ‘The understanding wants to be infor ...

198 catenation of small, temporally disjunctive perceptual steps. In order to form a total impression, we must retain what we ha ...

199 port memory, provide our perceptions with temporal depth, thereby providing opportunities for engaging in dialogue with hist ...

200 The significance of monuments rests on their social tasks; a town hall, for example, embodies the polity, a palace authority ...