Architecture, an important part of our environment, disturbs our experiences, feelings, memories, and ultimately the decisions we make. To explore the connection between architecture and the human ...
Architecture and Human Rights * Dr. HOSSEIN SADRI Associate Professor, Girne American University, Cyprus E mail: [email protected]
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The presented document is a research report o the topic of "Relationship between Body Image and Self Esteem". A survey was conducted to determine the relation between body image and self es…Full description
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Analogy between the structure of human body and Architecture Architecture To draw an analogy between the structure of the human body and architecture is tempting ,as much for aesthetic as for symbolic reasons. In our subjective representation of the order of the universe it is not the atom but our body which is the primordial element of reference. It is our way to measure big and small ,geometric and amorphous ,hard and soft ,narrow and wide ,strong and weak. A healthy human body appears balanced to us. It is a whole to which nothing more can be added;we can dress or decorate it, but cannot add a third arm, nor extend a leg. Our sense of beauty is probably linked to form of our body. What interests us us for the moment are analogies between the form of human body and certain architectural elements. The best known example is provided by the three classical orders of antiquity. The subject of passionate interest during the three centuries of vitruvianism from the renaissance onwards. As analogy to the human body
the column can be ‘male’ evoking strength, solidity and virile beauty: that is the doric column with a diameter one-sixth to its height . it can be female , a Corinthian column, more slender with a diameter one-eighth of its height, more graceful and decorated with a capital reminiscent of a head of curly hair. Finally it can be ‘female’ like the ionic column. In ancient Greece examples may be found that replace the columns with human figures; as is the case of the caryatids of the acropolis or the colossus of the Odeon in the Agora at Athens . Many buildings allude to the image of human body or to one of its parts in their organization or dimension. Without however, going as far as mimicry. Francesco di Giorgio martini (1439-1501) was seeking an allegory of the human body not only in columns, but also in town plans ,plans of buildings and church facades. Analogies between body and building appear even in our vocabulary; skeleton, skin façade.
Commensurate proportions
It is said that the equilateral triangle is the basic to the construction of cathedrals. The
Greeks used in addition to commensurate proportions, the ratio 1:√2 and they knew the golden section. The true reason for fascination exerted by the golden section does not lie simply in the aesthetic quality ,but also in its mathematical property of being successively sub divisible to infinity in both directions.
