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: Arch 3222
Undergraduate Program
Theory of Architecture II Semester 6 // Year 3 // 2010 E.C
Prepared By: Kidus Yohannes//Bsc Arch.
INTERPRETATION IN Interpretation of content
Physiological and
ARCHITECTURE
psychological interpretation
Formalistic interpretation
Luis I. Kahn
• Architecture is what
nature can’t do.
• A city should be a
place where a little
child walking through
the streets can
imagine what he or
she would like to be
some day.
Le Corbusier
• Architecture goes beyond utilitarian needs…
suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am
happy and I say ‘this is beautiful’. That is
architecture Art enters in.
• Architecture only exists when there is a poetic
emotion.
• Architecture is the masterly, correct, and
magnificent play of masses brought together in
light.
Frank Lloyd Wright
• No house should ever be built on a hill or on
anything.
• It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill
and house should live together each the
happier for the other.
• The good building is not one that hurts the
landscape, but one which makes the
landscape more beautiful than it was before
the building was built.
Walter Gropius
• Political interpretation
• Philosophical-religious interpretation
• Scientific interpretation
• Economic-social interpretation
• Materialist interpretation
• Technical interpretation
Political interpretation
PERICLES
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• Turks occupied Constantinople in 1453…
• In 1933, the Nazis came to power in
Germany and this determined the end of
the Bauhaus.
Hagia Sophia
Bauhaus
Philosophical-religious interpretation
• Architecture is the visual aspect of history.
• The protestant reformation marked the final
hour of Gothic architecture in England and
the beginning of the renaissance.
Scientific interpretation
• Architecture is the
autobiography of economic
systems and of social
institution.
• Similar architectural forms
appear whenever similar
economic conditions
appear.
Symbolist application
• “Aren't the skyscrapers of New
York the symbol of satanic
individualism, of the power of the
trusts, casting a shadow on all the
buildings around them?”
Materialist Interpretation
Unity in variety??
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Luis I. Kahn
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