Lesson 5 Theory of Architecture 1

“Each element is first

considered as a conceptual
element, then as a visual
element n the vocabulary
of architectural design”
Point
Piazza San Pietro,
Rome
Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome
Manila City
Hall,
Philippines
Tholos of Polycleitos, Epidauros, Greece

Circle
Baptistery at Pisa, Italy

Cylinder
Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton

Sphere
Line
Pyramids of
Giza
Complex,
Egypt
Kathipara Junction, India

Circus Maximus, Rome

Roman Colosseum, Rome,
Italy

Central Park, New York City

Beijing Stadium, China

Gherkin Building,
London
Vertical Linear Trajan’s
Elements Column, Rome

Hagia Sophia, Turkey

Menhir
Seagram Building, New
York City
Caryatid Porch, Erechtheion,
Athens, Greece
The Great Fountain,
Royal Palace at Caserta
Cornell University
Housing, New Yrok
Carolino Aqueduct Parthenon, Athens,
Greece
Stoa of Attalus, Athens

Cloister of Moissac Abbey,

France
Plane
Types of Plane

Overhead Plane

Wall Wall
Plane Plane

Base Plane
Planar Elements

Roof Plane Ceiling Plane

 Church of the Three Crosses,
Vuoksenniska, Finland

Aircraft Hangar, Italy

Planar Elements

Exterior Wall Plane Interior Wall Plane

Piazza of San Marco, Venice

Fukuwa, Japan
Planar Elements

Ground Plane

Floor Plane
Scala de Spagna (Spanish
Steps)

Machu Picchu, Peru

Emperor’s seat, Imperial Palace,
Kyoto, Japan

Tomohiro
Hata
Residence
(Re-slope
house)
Kobe, Japan
Volume
Volumetric Elements

Piazza Navona,
Rome, Italy

CCP, Manila