Starts at 0:11 and ends at 9:01. No voice. Only slides. Notice differences and similarities among the styles of architecture. How do they affect the other or do they?
Each style of ecclesial architecture is not only meaningful in itself but how each emerged throughout history tells us a lot about ourselves as a society and as people gaining wisdom it theology and catechism. Church buildings are unfortunately, today, hidden of its meaning to the general public. Just as the faithful must educate themselves in the teachings of the Church through her written expressions, so too must her expressions in stone and mortar be learned. To be ignorant of this is to be ignorant of another way the Church communicates to her people.
Social Change
Ideology, Movement/Progression of the People, Theology
Technology
Innovation & Technique in Construction
Utility
Utilitarianism: Form Follows Function
Laugier: the Beginning
What constitutes the geometry of a living space? Why are they predominantly rectangular?
Round, triangular or rectilinear... Round huts worked well as an open space for interior use. However, as the need to separate a building into inner rooms of varying utilitarian purposes, they became problematic. Although strongest in withstanding acting forces upon it, the triangular building naturally creates dead spaces. The arrangement and distribution of interior walls within a building proved to be more efficient in rectilinear spaces, maximizing area and allowing hierarchy of public to private use.
The structural use of the orders were mainly employed by the Greeks in contrast to the dominant use of arches by the Romans, who primarily used the columns for aesthetics. Although both civilizations practiced pagan worship, these styles translated into Christian architecture not for their affiliation in paganism but for the philosophical insights of the ancient philosophers.
Doric
Iconic
Corinthian
corinthian capital
Sophisticated techniques to perfect perspective: horizontal planes with slight upward bend, columns widened in the middle, angled approach.