Architectural Language and

Architectural Language and

Spatial Story

Spatial Story

----Introduction

K1B SPS Lecture 1

K1B SPS Lecture 1

Dr. Wang Qi

Departm

ent of the Built Environment

Do you believe built environment is a language?

Do you believe built environment is a language?

�Can we use it for communication?

�Can everyone understand / read it?

WHAT IS THE LANGUAGE?

WHAT IS THE LANGUAGE?

HOW

CAN ARCHITECTURE BE A M

EANS OF COMMUNICATIO

N?

HOW

CAN ARCHITECTURE BE A M

EANS OF COMMUNICATIO

N?

�Ferdinand de Saussure –

structural linguistics

�Roland Barthes –

Semiology

�Jacques D

errida –Deconstruction

THE O

RIGIN

OF ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE

THE O

RIGIN

OF ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE ––

PROPORTIO

N

PROPORTIO

N

AND PERSO

NALIZATIO

NAND PERSO

NALIZATIO

N

�Victor Hugo’s Architectural Language

�The classical Orders as a dominant language

�The proportion in Renaissance Architecture

�The philosophy of architectural language in Eastern

World

THE M

ODERN TRENDS (1)

THE M

ODERN TRENDS (1)

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----MODERNISM REVOLUTIO

N

MODERNISM REVOLUTIO

N ––

LATE

LATE--M

ODERNISM M

ODIFICATIO

N

MODERNISM M

ODIFICATIO

N ––

POST

MODERNISM D

IVERSITY

POST

MODERNISM D

IVERSITY

�Le Corbusier

�Louis Kahn

�Charles Jencks

�Mies van der Rohe

�Minoru Yam

asaki

�Minoru Yam

asaki

�Michael Grave

�Mario Botta

�…

…

THE M

ODERN TRENDS (2)

THE M

ODERN TRENDS (2)

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----THE CHARM O

F DETAILS AND TRIFLES IN

LIFE

THE CHARM O

F DETAILS AND TRIFLES IN

LIFE ––THE PATTERN

THE PATTERN

LANGUAGE

LANGUAGE

�Christopher Alexander’s Pattern Language

�Contemporary Japanese designs (play with the building,

sitting on the roof, hiding around the corner)

TakaharuTezuka’sarchitecture

CITY’S SPEECH

CITY’S SPEECH

�Kevin Lynch’s five elem

ents

�Gordon Cullen’s “Faculty of Sight”

MAGIC O

F THE N

ATURE

MAGIC O

F THE N

ATURE

�The art of structure from Ernst H

aeckel’s Panels

�Sketching practice

The power of the language of the built environment in virtual world

The power of the language of the built environment in virtual world

�Architecture is a kind of silent, but strong language in m

ovies.

IS ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE?

IS ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE?

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----SEEIN

G, TALKIN

G AND D

RAW

ING EXPERIM

ENT

SEEIN

G, TALKIN

G AND D

RAW

ING EXPERIM

ENT

�Groups tests and discussion

Questions?

(*_*) (‘^^ )

See you next week!

See you next week!