• University of Texas

• ARC 308

 Chapter 1: Basic Observations  A piece of architecture is indivisible, and has plans, sections, and elevations that must harmonize with each other  Architecture as having utility, should be made to last (and often be lived in); it is a “functional art” p. 9  Architect simply writes a set of instructions- he is not creating a personal art like a painter does; architecture is “an art of organization” p. 14  Architecture is created by ordinary people for ordinary people; “No other art is so intimately connected with man’s daily life from cradle to grave” p. 14  Humans experience with their senses; S. Maria Maggiore – kids playing ball against curved wall were experiencing the architect in a different way than the tourists who “hardly notice the unique character of the surroundings”; p. 15-18  Hardness and softness; form affects how we perceive heaviness vs lightness  through experiences; man “judges things according to weird, solidity, texture, heat-conducting ability” p. 18  P 18-20: introduces form as making up architecture  “To experience architecture you must be aware of all of these elements [hard & soft, heavy & light, etc]” p. 29  Makes comparison to tennis racket, riding boot; “…we cannot describe our impressions of an object without treating it as a living thing with its physiognomy”  The object of all good architecture is to create integrated wholes p. 33  To bring order and relation into human surroundings is the task of the architect p. 34 Chapter 2 Solids and Cavities in