Sculpturing the terrain for an Art- Architecture Workshop

Hobby Garden

Bicycle Shed

Parasite Structure

Bicycle Shed with wood span

Seating Arrangements

Architects design built environments. They also often manage the process that ensures that designs are built as intended. Their purpose, therefore, is to improve human life. Create timeless, free, joyous spaces for all activities in life. As we live and work in built environments for a large proportion of our lives and construction has very large global impacts, Architects also have a responsibility to design buildings that respond to people, local communities, economies and environments as well as global issues such as climate change. By modifying climate certain human activities could be carried out in comfort. The architect has to plan for any kind of human activity that must inquire into the essence and its purpose. Then came functionalism, that architecture has to satisfy pre-fixed purposes called the program. Architecture seems to have become merely an inexact applied science. But this fall of Architecture from humanities isn’t because it has become functional, because functionalism in modern times is too mindless. In addition, Paul Goodman says that a problem in seating and planning too, to emphasize that when we design a human activity we need a human reference. In the book, he describes seating arrangement for 4 types of therapy: the Character Analysis, the Gestalt therapy, the Freudan therapy, the Sullivanian therapy that is a face to face therapy. Each one of them is applied by a specific seating plan.

The Architect at Work

The Architect is not just involved in the design of a building. He is involved much deeper and that's why we need to see in detail what he does, to consider the ways he exercises his various abilities, concentrate skills that distinct an architect from other kinds of designers and planners like decision-maker, concern about structures, servicing and environmental control, exercise skills of locational analysis, making judgement over matters of cost and even of interior design. These skills make it possible architect's capacity for visualizing or generating the 3D forms of building and space.
For generating 3D form architects generally have used 4 distinct ways: pragmatic, iconic, analogic and canonic in chronological order of application.
-Pragmatic Design-was the earliest way of generating architectural forms. You make trial and error until the perfect form, the design is produced in the best way. Some examples are : snow house or Igloo, the mammoth hunter, Indian tepees etc. In this design, we have climate modification as offered by wild nature so that certain human activities could be carried out in comfort.
-Iconic Design-Once the climate is controlled and the resources available for its control are matched and have a sufficient justification for the repetition of a house form once it has been proved to work. There are other pressures which lead to conservatism. House form and pattern of life become adjusted to each other. Some tribes describe the fabled origin of building form. People developed their building forms to a fixed mental image that was called iconic design( an artifact, object kind of resemblance)
-Analogic Design-(Generation of the new forms) This method of generating new forms seem fundamental to the human mind. The use of new forms aroused by analogical, processes is firstly seen in the funerary complex designed for King Djoser. Analogic design with or without the use of design analogs is still the most potent source of ideas in architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright has described examples in connexion with his work: waterlilies or mushrooms as analogies of structural units of the Johnson Wax company.
-Canonic Design-This is where were developed pattern in order and regularity(grid) that allows the architect to design a proportional way. This design is considered as the most intellectual design.
Broadbent continues with Le Corbusier that he also makes iconic use of feature from earlier designs and so on with Mies van der Rohe. The founding fathers of modern architecture combined the 4 types of design approaches whenever they needed to generate 3D form

Solids and Cavities in Architecture

As we've said before Architecture is within art.Architecture is the art of playing with solids(forms) and cavities(space),that are very essential components of architecture.Cavity is the clearly defined space.Rasmussen use a different word cavities, instead of spaces and voids,because void is undefined and space is overdesigned.On the other hand the solids enclose and form the cavities.In other words,solids are the containers and the cavities are the contained.Rasmussen also make  a kind of parallelism ,let say the relationship between solids and cavities,glasses and liquid.The glass it self is the solid and the liquid is the cavity.That's how he tries to make a simple example to understand better the relationship.
Architecture is a "game",how we play with solids and cavities.
Rasmussen says there are two types of architects, who differ from the way they start designing.One is sloid-minded and the other one is cavity-minded.So the architect might choose to start designing firstly with main space.He/she might think about the space and other detais late, but some others might have other approaches.Furthermore Rasmmussen gives examples of works  of these types of architects.In the Gothic architecture is characterized by solid-minded.The Beauvais Cathedral in France  is the right example of the solid minded design.First thing we can see is the sharp pointed structure.While the cavity minded design belong to the period of Renaissance.Like in Karli in India cave temples,St.Peter church,etc.
Another period is Late Renaissance or Mannerism.This period followed Renaissance architecture in a more sophisticated manner.Mannerism was the dominant art form of the Late Renaissance.In those buildings that were build in that period,we can distinguish the contrast between the solids and cavities create visual drama in architecture.The employment of masses and cavities together in effective contrasts leads to works that use grand architectural/visual effects.We can observe that effective use of contrast in many edifices and buildings.In buildings like: Porta di Santo Spirito,Italy; Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne In Rome; S.Maria della Pace in Rome,Fontana di Trevi,Police Headquarters,Copenhagen city Hall etc.This contrast was strongly reflected in one of the modern design of "Falling Water"(Johnson Wax), particularly in the importance of interpenetrating exterior and interior spaces .
The relationship and the contrast between the solids and cavities are part of the design and is important how we use them,both to be in control.A good architect should look on all sides,not only the space part but the structure too.

From the past to the present

Architecture has evolved throughout the years.During these years has been tried to define the relationship between building technology and architectural aesthetics.The two fold essence of architecture are abled by two important components: the physical structure, which obeys objective requirements and the aesthetics part ,which gives us an emotion of a subjective nature.This relationship and the right mixture of these two components places architecture in a field completely apart from the other arts.
Pier Luigi Nevri ,an italian architect,engineer and builder,in his book "Aesthetics and Technology in building" has analysed architectural designs and components throughout history.He ,as a builder judges building technologies and methods of construction and as a non technician analyses the aesthetic aspect as a work of art.Good Technology is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for Good Architecture.The conditions to building correctly are economic efficiency,functionality,stability and durability.Each one of them has their own importance.
-Stability-the building should be stable otherwise we have not build correctly
-Durability- it should be resistant to different external elements (fire ,earthquake etc)
-The other two conditions are result of proper proportioning of sizes of spaces,relaionship of spaces,richness of ornament,preciousness of materials.
Nervi says that the relationship between Building technology and Aesthetic Appearance are present in building from the past to the present.This relationship he presents with examples from Greek and Egyptian,Roman architecture.Greeks and Egyptians were limited by marble and stone materials.Different from Greeks and Egyptians ,in Roman architecture thrusting roofs plus the introduction of powerful horizontal forces made possible internal shapes and spaces.An example is the reconstruction of the interior of the Basilica of Maxentius.The relation between  Aesthestics and Technology is shown during the Gothic period in Gothic Cathedrals.
From the past to present ,architecture is different.This rrlationship has evolved in a aesthetical way.Some modern architectural building are: Firth of Forth,Bridge,Eiffel Tower,etc.
To sum up the relationship between the technology and aesthetics that Nevri found in the great buildings of the past has remained intact.