Unit Summary

Unit One

• Finding out what it meant to design ("There is a great need to revise and broaden our view of the human situation, a need to be both comprehensive and more realistic, not only about others, but about ourselves as well." - E.T Hall)
• construction
• meaning
• symbols in design
• the symbols all had their own meaning to the that stayed strong throughout time
• circles groves and stacks came into the picture

• The circles, groves, and stacks all represent sacred places
• this is true throughout the history of design
• Ancient Egyptian pyramids were made of stacks 
• Pyramids of Giza: 2589 BCE
• Stonehenge: 2500 BCE, England
• Circle of tall stones that puts emphasis on the importance of what is inside
• Light shines through at certain times

• Combinations of groves and stacks
• temples & palaces
• Acropolis: Athens, Greece: 405 BCE
• Parthenon 
• stacks (columns <3types doric, ionic, corinthian>) 
• design got more sophisticated
• made so that it would look perfect
• matching the need and represent the meaning of the building in the way that it is designed

• Design changes as needs of the people change
• Commodity, Firmness, Delight
• commodity (function)
• firmness (structure & stability)
• delight (satisfying aesthetic features)
• Precedents help mold design
• Different societies have different ways of designing the same kind of building
• their own style unique to the country
• Many different building forms in western civilization
• plan
• road/street
• aqueduct
• bath
• basilica
• temple
• arch
• column
• market
• forum
• amphitheater
• colosseum
• dome
• Colosseum: Rome, Italy: ca 72-80 CE
• center of Roman society
• tells history of the society on the building
• ties in circles, groves, and  stacks (key ideas from the unit)
• fits 60,000 people
• still used today as a precedent for the design of present day colosseums 
• high commodity, firmness, and delight 
• the essence of unit one can all be found in this building