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Order in building
We have to live against nature and
therefore we build by ordering.
The world is more beautiful since it has been
explored (Hellpach)
To build we must use fairly simple geometry.
It is first of all a necessity for design and
above all for building
Similarity of details
Group of large
elements & group of
small elements
The waterfront of the harbor Hydra, owing topography, is not formed only by the
houses in the first row.
By their scale, they form a sub-group apart, without breaking up the urban fabric
Proximity
Dissimilarity is
counteracted by proximity
Skyros, Greece
Coordinate texture; Hydra Fragmentary texture; Pully
Alignments & Series
41
Tel, Czechoslovakia
Gradation
Curved - straight
Le Corbusier, headquarters of the
Association of Spinners, plan of
level 4, Ahmedabad, 1954
1942 - 1960
Concave-convex
Francesco Borromini, Sant Ivo
della Sapienza, Rome
1942 - 1960
Complexity
Michelangelo
faade for the funerary chapel of San
Lorenzo in Florence, 1516 - 1534
Spatial Complexity
Richard Meier, High Museum, Atlanta
Texas, 1983
Contradiction
Simplicity
not banality, is a quality to which we
aspire just as much in plan as in
space
In architecture & urban design is only
obtained by an elegant solution