Fundamental Concepts of Architecture : The Vocabulary of Spatial Situations

61 perception endows this form with continuity, Leon Battista Alberti referred to it as a dissolved > wall. As closed off as ...

62 columned hall (or hypostyle, a Greek word meaning ‘to rest on columns’) is the building type that is shaped most strongly by ...

63 instances of comfortableness, can hardly be generated via such physical or physiological conditions. The degree of il- lumina ...

64 tions. The complexity of an architectural layout, for exam- ple, depends significantly on > scale and angle of vision. A s ...

65 sion of bewilderment. Just as an inner richness can be discov- ered in simplicity, conversely, the multifariousness and con- ...

66 a composition, the parts are assembled into an articulated unity in such a way that a relationship of equilibrium is achieved ...

67 sitional assembly and its relationship to an overarching form idea, in turn, is the architectural > concept. Bruno Reichli ...

68 boundary that encloses a space is, seen as a whole, always concave, and its sparest form is an angle (> angle and cor- ner ...

69 tion requires multiple points of view. A convex form screens something from view, pushes forward, and causes movement to rebo ...

70 is fairly sizable, the concavity of the walls once again frames a circulating movement. Concave and convex forms, finally, ma ...

71 zation. A contribution to understanding is made, for example, when > spatial structure appears in the form of a lucid conf ...

72 stands directly before our > gaze, or in our path, a building seems to confront our own bodies with its mass. Its front of ...

73 out between their masses and fronts. It can also be the case that the buildings do not turn towards us, but towards one anoth ...

74 ditions to which one is free to refer selectively. In the city, the surrounding space itself has a specific > structure, w ...

75 The spatial context of the landscape is interwoven with the building, i.e. when both belong to the same order, or are interlo ...

76 buildings, Tadao Ando restricts contact with nature to the experience of air, cold, rain, snow, and certain sounds (the voice ...

77 Many buildings require courtyards for illumination. Windows and doors that look out onto courtyards, which may even be only d ...

78 movement. As a permeable interior > facade, this ring of col- umns expresses the house’s introverted character, while the ...

79 the outer cover is the essential element of architecture. In fact, it is primarily the > surface of the walls that we perc ...

80 of the covering and the invisible core, a concealed form that can be intuited only from the cladding. The covering need not n ...