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Vitruvius

- ancient Roman architect


- Utilitas, Firmitas, Venustas

Architecture encloses usable space

- client states needs in "building program"


- plan= utility, drawing= structure, actual elevation= beauty

Primary spaces

represent main function of a building

Secondary spaces

make the primary spaces usable

Additive plan

strings discrete rooms into irregular pattern, complex 3d forms

Divisive plan

separates spaces within larger/simpler spaces, often symmetrical

Structural Systems

trabeated, arculated

trabeated

based on a unit of two verticals supporting a horizontal

arculated

composed of wedge-shaped stones (voussoirs) are between posts, becomes a vault or dome, diagonal thrusts, meeds or buttresses

Structure seeks stasis thru balancing... what?

tension and compression (push/pull)

picturesque

irregular

formal

regular