the Golden Section from his studies of Greek architecture; the encouragement he received from Messiaen to further pursue his incorporation of mathematics and architecture into music, and the many references to music made by Le Corbusier with his Modulor. The Golden Section and the Fibonacci series appear multiple times throughout the compositions of Xenakis. This paper will only discuss three specific instances: Le Sacrifice, Psappha, and Metastasis. The first principle that I will discuss is
raised within architectural design, proposing a foundation and arrangement within it. Similar texts for example the progress of ‘cellule’ and figures of the Maison Standardisee, lack relation to the design process peculiar to the five points. The Modulor, which is an anthropometric scale that is used as a system to plan a number of Le Corbusier’s buildings, is another theoretical attempt, which did not achieve a clear relation to the design process and also the architectural search for form, which
From my opinion off what I have gathered, I came to an understanding that Critical regionalism can be seen as an approach to architecture that tries to stand up for places culture and identifies the identity of a place where Modern Architecture has failed to, by using the building's geographical context and reference of vernacular architecture. The term critical regionalism was first used by Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre and, with a somewhat different meaning, by Kenneth Frampton. Critical
History of City Planning Prompt 1: Center and Region I: Compare the urban plans and philosophies of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. What are the spatial, social and economic factors of each plan? “Wright and Le Corbusier seem predestined for comparison. Their ideal cities confront each other as two opposing variations on the same utopian theme” (Fishman, 163). Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, more commonly known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a Swiss-French architect
THE DIVINE PROPORTION "Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold, the second we may name a precious jewel." --Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler was one of the most distinguished astronomers and mathematicians. So what was so compelling about a simple relation between two numbers that he effortlessly went ahead to compare one of the most critical theorems of mathematics
Le Corbusier Charles-Edouard Jeanneret is an internationally known influential Swiss architect and city planner, whose designs combine the functionalism of the modern movement with a bold, sculptural expressionism. He belonged to the first generation of the so-called International school of architecture and was their most able propagandist in his numerous writings. In his architecture he joined the functionalist aspirations of his generation with a strong sense of expressionism. He was the first