The Room Matrix Pattern Essay

Upstairs there are three bedrooms, two baths: total square footage, twelve hundred and sixty-five”, (p.2) Castagna demonstrates solidity, security, clean conventional lines as well as borders which symbolises Antonio’s settlement in

A review of the house itself suggests that an architectural hierarchy of privacy increases level by level. At first, the house seems to foster romantic sensibilities; intrigued by its architectural connotations, the narrator embarks upon its description immediately--it is the house that she wants to "talk about" (Gilman 11). Together with its landscape, the house is a "most beautiful place" that stands "quite alone . . . well back from the road, quite three miles from the village" (Gilman 11). The estate's grounds, moreover, consist of "hedges and walls and gates that lock" (Gilman 11). As such, the house and its grounds are markedly depicted as mechanisms of confinement--ancestral places situated within a legacy of control and

Though strong as a transition between other works in a gallery, Building More Stately Mansions individually possesses an appropriately glum physical atmosphere. Visually, the painting has a highly representational element,

This declaration focuses on cultural landscapes in terms of the ' interaction of people and nature over time' .3 The majority of World Heritage listed cultural landscapes are ' evolved continuing landscapes, where people and nature dwell together' . Most cultural landscapes fit into this category: they are living landscapes, changing as the culture, climate and natural surroundings change within and around them. The character of the landscape thus reflects the values of the people who have shaped it, and who continue to live in it. The culture itself is the shaping force. Landscape is a cultural expression that does not happen by chance but is created informally or by

Throughout this essay I will explore to what extent Inigo Jones’s design for the Queens House was inspired by the works of Palladio and Palladian architecture and 15-16th century European architectural precedents, while also exploring the role the building played on the development of Neoclassical architecture on a wider scale. The Queens House represents the stylistic point of origin for the great imposing buildings surrounding Greenwich but also for Neo-Classical architecture in Britain more generally. The formative years of the designer, Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is largely unknown although its believed he trained as a joiner and received no formal architectural education. Its documented that in the year 1597 he visited Italy several

A sense of place is defined as involving the human experience in a landscape and also grows from identifying oneself in relation to a particular piece of land on the surface of the Earth. It seems our advancing society has played a huge impact in our daily lives causing us to travel further away from our connection to the environment. Andy Goldsworthy, a British land artist from Yorkshire, made it his life goal to remind the rest of the world just how magical nature still is and the many different things that it openly represents to any willing eye. We are connected to the environment, and the environment is connected to us. The notion of time and it being temporary are aspects of life that our environment and every human have in common. Goldsworthy

An individual’s perspective is influenced and shaped by an experience of a landscape in which the representation of one’s mindset (in the text) leads to varied understanding this prompts insightful individuality. Exploring the notion that the impact of landscapes on individuals is diverse and that the composers are able to manipulate the audiences understanding of one’s identity. Alain de Botton, in his multimodal non-fiction text the Art of Travel effectively explores through personal anecdotes and colloquial language that an environment is a catalyst for change, thus an individual’s sense of identity is always profound. Additionally, Emily Bronte the author of Wuthering Heights successfully conveys through imagery and symbolism the grandeur

Next, Tension between Interior and Exterior. Zumthor mentions that buildings ‘talk’ by using signals. There are open baths and also hidden for ‘bathing ritual’. The expression: enclosure vs. sense of place, private vs. public. The baths work this transition beautifully.

We saw Chiswick House; this is a William Kemp designed garden. Syon House, the London home of the Dukes of Northumberland; the ‘house’ was stunning inside. The conservatory is one of the best preserved in the UK. Glorious landscapes designed by Capability Brown, this year we celebrate 300 years since his birth. Beautiful scenes showing hundreds of daffodils, magnolias, camellias, rhododendrons and azaleas. There is such a huge variety of daffodils which we never see here, over the years

Within the novel A Room with a View, E. M. Forster explores the differences between 2 social classes. A young woman of upper class by the name of Lucy Honeychurch has traveled from a luxury estate in England to Italy where she will unlock new characteristics of herself. What Lucy did not know was that on her trip her world would take a complete 180-degree turn towards a perspective that is distinctly different than what she is taught to believe. Italy allows Lucy to meet impactful and influential people, such as the Emersons and Mrs. Lavish, who encourage to explore her mind and question her preconceived notions regarding both her place in society and individual desires for happiness.

In this picture, Victorian style house stands alone in the field. A railroad track cuts through the foreground. There is a bare sky behind the house with no secondary objects in the immediate surroundings of the building. this enables us to keenly focus on the articulation of the building and its relationship with its environment.

In Wright and An alto's houses, a powerful sense of insides is generate by opacity. Which, in Falling water is express in roughly dressed stone masonry walls and, in Villa Mairea. By white-painted, solid walls. The transparency of glass windows in both houses thereby connect the two. In both houses, the architects created a strong sense of insideness yet, at the same time, devised ways to connect inside and outside and thereby create a robust continuity between the two. This inside-outside relationship can be translate into environmental and architectural experience in four different ways: (1) in-betweeness; (2) interpenetration generated by inside; (3) interpenetration generated by outside; and (4)

“Human houses should not be like boxes, blazing in the sun, nor should we outrage the Machine by trying to make dwelling places too complementary to Machinery. Any building for humane purposes should be an elemental, sympathetic feature of the ground, complementary to its nature-environment, belonging by kinship to the terrain.”

The Mexican tile roofs jump out at your eyes, until the gorgeous iron gates of other estates snatch your attention. I can at times be overwhelmed with the feast before my eyes. My favorite structure by far is the towering ruins of the old sugar plantation. The words ruins, sugar, and plantation alone are enough to conjure up the most fascinating stories within ones imagination. I can see the bones of an age past; still standing before me to mourn, and dream about. I live in a grouping of villas where a restaurant and pool facilities are being constructed. I smell fresh sawn mahogany as the carpenters make bars, counters, and doors. I hear stone masons chipping at tiles, and the scraping sounds as they pull out the mortar to lay them.

Centered in the house is a ramp that takes you on a journey from the underbelly of the house on the ground floor to the main body on the first floor and then on to a roof garden. Throughout the house views of the surrounding nature are framed, your mind is free marvel, as the forms evoke a sense of exploration and delight. Villa Savoye is better experienced than viewed through an image, only then can you understand the greater meaning and purpose that informs its beauty. One might argue that this is not beautiful architecture and a poor example, however upon visiting this house you cannot deny that the house is beautiful in its own right, evoking a response from the occupant. Le Corbusier’s masterpiece is moving; therefore achieving what he believed architecture to be about. This experience and the emotion that is felt can only be described in words. Shapes play a big role in the architecture but clearly the meanings behind are more important.