Tto some extreme religious folk, the manger would qualify.
On May 7, 2009, at 2:48 PM, William Conger wrote:
One of Chicago's great buildings, the Auditorium Theater and tower,
designed by Louis Sullivan, rests on rafts. These are broad wood
and concrete pods about 40 ft. down into the clay that spread the
downward thrust of the building. Bedrock is about 80 feet down at
that location. Among other innovations, Sullivan provided for
telescoping plumbing pipes to accommodate the settling of the
building. It remains a spectacular full use building, no cracks or
tilting...since 1893.
I think you draw the definition to tight for architecture. But I
agree it's hard to define, since it involves art.
And one of the first uses of art was to adorn and be integrated
with architecture. Maybe architecture is the main art form since
all the other arts take place in its context.
wc
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From: armando baeza <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: armando baeza <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2009 3:28:15 PM
Subject: Re: Architecture and Philosophy
Grounded , as, not on wheels,or on a floating platform.
Most city buildings are next to each other,would they qualify as
architecture?
On May 7, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Frances Kelly wrote:
Frances to Armando with thanks...
The word "grounded" here as given by you is not fully clear to
me, but if by "grounded" you mean placed or built on the land or
on and in the water or in the air, then this might also
presumably include say docking stations under the sea or in outer
space. Furthermore, if the once "entrance" were later sealed by
design as in say a tomb, would the "thing" remain as architecture
in the absence of an entrance, or perhaps would it now become as
sculpture. You may have also unwittingly indicated a problem in
the English language when it comes to the term "architecture"
when commonly used only as a general class or field of activity
and study. My preference is to sometimes use it aligned with
graphic pictures and plastic sculptures and so tectonic
architectures, and thus a singular edifice would be called an
architecture. This lingual usage of the word however is not
always accepted. Allow me to search further into the origins and
sources of the word.
You wrote...
Architecture are grounded things with an entrance.
