Arch history 8-30-2011 Day 3 Slideshow 2 (2nd half) Top of his bucket list Middle building filled with

spiritually charged objects Was built in 770, is rebuilt every 20 years The Shinto shrine at Ise, Japan, incorporates point, path and domain in a meaningful unified composition. It is shown at left before the sacred objects have been transferred from the old shrine to the new one. Die Frauenkirche, Dresden, Germany (1726-1743) A Lutheran (yes, Lutheran) church in the Baroque style. Was firebombed and rebuilt 4 parts that act like x-axis and y-axis Oculus, the center of the dome The impetus to organize nature in the service of desing crosses temporal and cultural lines Vaux-le-Vicomte, France, Louis LeVau, architect; Andre Le Notre, landscape architect (1658-1661) NEXT SLIDESHOW Egypt: The fundamentals of architecture Ryerson Tomb at Graceland Cemetary, Chicago, IL, 1889, Louis H. Sullivan, architect Same year ND became a state Mount Auburn Cemetary, Cambridge, MA (est. 1832; Egyptian Revival entry gate 1843) Downtown Presbyterian Church, Nashville, TN The window columns are Egyptian 3 Perspectives for you to consider - How does the physical environment shape our architecture? o How do buildings respond to geography, geology, and climate? How do they temper the env. For our safety and comfort? - What role do buildings play in cultural expression?

o Not all building types are equally important in every culture. What buildings would you use to interpret your own? Can you being to take buildings apart to understand them? o Arch. Incorporates real hard ideas like structure and materiality, as well as more abstract intentions such as existential meaning and beauty. It is important to understand the interplay of a buildings form and its function in society.

600 miles long, 10 miles wide, the floods give fertile soil, more grain grown here than anywhere else Passage of the sun represents life/death. New Kingdom LOTS of building done Ptolemaic Greek period, Ptolemy was one of Alexander the Greats generals. Greek, not Egyptian. Cleopatra was the last Ptolemy 305-33 BCE