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Beauty + Architecture?

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3 IMPORTANT LEARNING POINTS IN ARCHITECTURE MODULE

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3 IMPORTANT LEARNING POINTS IN ARCHITECTURE MODULE

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by: Jana Bianca Maria A. Jamison

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So, as every part fit to its proper place performing its purpose, the structure will be a unified home which creates gentle harmony. Hence, adequate performance of function produces beauty of the design.

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According to Roger Scruton, architecture can express beauty with its fittingness. Its beauty lies within the form and function – pertaining to its proportionality (size and order), space relation, and its practicality.

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Therefore, if not tied up with function, organic architecture will remain as a skeleton, it will only destroy its integrity, portraying a structure without poetic significance.

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Its integral quality which makes it a beautiful architecture shows uniqueness and repeatability, that when the design of the nature changes, the form of the structure also changes. It exhibits the wholeness of parts, integrally connected to each other serving their multiple functions.

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Furthermore, in Organic architecture, form also follows its function and creates beauty at the same time. The primary objective is to cause no harm to nature through the design which promotes harmony between architecture and nature.

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Architecture can also be organic and engage to nature – Organic architecture.

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An example by Gilson is when man creates a habitat to shelter himself against the heat, cold, wind, rain, and sunny weather. The availability of the materials needed to build this structure according to the plan of arrangement and order shows the form of a human shelter. Thus, form follow function. In order to create a human shelter which protects him from inconsistent weather and climate, he must gather materials made to perform that purpose.

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Hence, function influences and determines the form of a structure.

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Every architecture depicts a character related to a practical need.

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Form always follows function.

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Most of the time, architecture is noticed only on its physicality, the building itself. But one main thing I have learned in the module is that architecture is an art. It is an art of constructing, organizing, and decorating buildings in relation to a plan of a layman or architect.

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Architecture is an
art of expressing Beauty.