Towns, townscapes and squares
An appreciation of landscape – the aesthetic quality of the countryside – has been part of our culture for at least two hundred years,...
Architectural Drawings New Uses in the Architectural Design Process
Architectural drawings role as a source of inspiration as well as a means for interpreting the past has always been key within the architectural...
Symmetry breaking
In such a clear violation of symmetry, so beloved in early and high scholasticism, one can see the "Occam" dilemma of empiricism, visually confirming...
The concept of completeness of the appearance of urban space
The history of architecture, presented by the traditional architectural school as an interconnected list of outstanding ensembles or objects, teaches us to see the...
Composition in the design of engineering structures
Today, the consciousness of designers has come very close to transforming into artistic creativity the principles and techniques of those types of engineering design...
Le Corbusier Skyscrapers
The Cartesian skyscraper is naked.
The top and bottom of the original Manhattan model are amputated; the middle part is freed from the "old-fashioned" stone...
Symmetry of the composition of buildings and complexes
In the XVIII century. the process of forming large architectural complexes was completed. The peculiar features of the ensemble development of these complexes are...
Symmetry as an ideal of integrity, beauty and harmony remains the...
The symmetry of a work of architecture, being at the same time a property of both the process of perception and the structure itself,...
Distortion and deformation of perspective images
With small viewing angles and the best choice of the position of the picture plane, the columns, when moving away from the viewer and...
Historical conventionality of the culturological approach to the study of symmetry...
It seems that the symmetry method is able to systematize and analyze the perception of a symmetrical object. The process of perception includes several...
Symbolic architectural understanding of space
The overlapping of several binary oppositions in the model of the world of ancient man could lead to four-membered complexes, for example, to the...
Transmission of horizontal and vertical lines on the plane of spatial...
When drawing architectural objects from nature, an essential part of the task is the transfer of the spatial position of horizontal and vertical lines...
Ornamental symmetry and integral ornament
The conventional understanding of pointlessness is that we combine various basic lines, planes, surfaces and volumes with each other, regardless of what these parts...
Spatial axis and rhythm, metric, variations
The world is created - traditional philosophy teaches - and everything that is created by human hands is created like the world.
This idea, which...
Symmetry as a theory of artistic transformations and invariants
Perhaps we can say that symmetry is a kind of universal code by which information from the outside world is translated into an artificially...
Symmetry as a visual, visible harmony
The symmetrical compositions of French gardens of the XVII century, the "architecture" of greenery (geometric shapes of trees, shrubs and curtains) were a continuation...
Symmetry as a means of ordering architectural composition
The questions of the traditional language of architecture, the ways of adequate professional expression of ideas are still the most difficult for both the...
Architectonics of the concept of architectural symmetry
Escher depicted lizards, different in color, but not distinguishable in shape, placed on a plane according to symmetry transformations.
Thus, the symmetrical ones include such...
Features of the style of architecture of Russian architecture
What are the features of this style?
The traditions of the cross-dome system are preserved.
Local limestone is used, from the blocks of which...
