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chrispy18
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 Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:53 am Post subject: |
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| wow, you people are really getting into this, cool. anyway, the idea of comparing cities in Arizona or tokyo is quite impossible for me, since i dont really live near to any of these places. Would you need to compare 2 outstanding cities? i rather thought of comparing average cities, since there are still huge differences. If you look at 2 cities in Switzerland, i dont know if you know these cities, but Zurich and Basel, 2 of the main cities in Switzerland, there is a huge difference between them, yet they lie only an hour apart... isnt that fantastic and weird??? i think it would be quite interesting to find out the reason for the difference... |
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solidred
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:50 am Post subject: |
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I aws reading through this and I was just about to mention the Swiss Cantons. However, I think you'd be doing a great deal of research into cultural differences before you get on to architectural differences. And you may then find it difficult to then relate the cultural differences you've discovered to the architectural differences.
Somewhere not too far away is Venice, which I was thinking about earlier. They imported architectural stuff along with all the merchandise a few centuries ago. You could look at just Venice, say. Take a building there that has Persian or Arabian features in the facade, then compare it to another Venetian building that's not so grand, maybe, that just uses local construction techniques to do the same thing. You might find the former in the pointed arch (which is thought to be a Gothic feature and Gothic is Western European and from 12-12th C but actually the 'gothic' or 'pointed' arch was 'invented' in modern day Iran or Iraq, I can't remember which). The latter might be a round arch or a horizontal lintel structure. Now why the two different ways for completing the top of an opening in a wall? Why would it be considered cool to use one decoratively even when there's no practical need for it? And so on.
Look out for reasons involving 1. Money (or lack of it) 2. Status (the wish to express it, as in: look here! I've been all the way to Persia and back!) 3. Technology (materials and techniques)
Just a note: I enjoyed 'The Architect's piece. Rather thought provoking. To Lekizz: you wouldn't get away with using 'space' and 'place' as synonyms in the graduate class I attended in London back in 1995. SPACE was, like, this all-encompassing term, almost mystical. These days, I could define 'space' and 'place' fairly succinctly but, then again, that's not what graduate school's for... |
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solidred
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:55 am Post subject: |
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apologies. a few errata:
aws = was
the Gothic style grew up in the 11th-12th Centuries
earliest examples of the pointed arch are to be found what is now Iran and Iraq |
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chrispy18
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:25 am Post subject: |
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| solidred: what where you about to mention about the swiss cantons? |
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solidred
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:50 am Post subject: |
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Oh, nothing too clever I'm afraid Chrispy. Just that Switzerland's unusual in it's still present day federation of seperate districts, with French, Italian and German speaking districts and mixtures of these. Then there's Geneva, Basle, Berne and Zurich which are each rather different. But of course you know all this, being from Switzerland yourself...  |
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chrispy18
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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| u got it!!! |
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chrispy18
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:54 am Post subject: |
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| so basically, same countries with same culture have same styles of architecure? there are loads of exceptions, how come??? |
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