LE CORBUSİER-TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE

Towards a New Architecture;

Le Corbusier invites readers to stop thinking of architecture as a matter of historical style and instead open their eyes to the modern world. A historian, critic and architect, Le Corbusier creates a world of new forms by provocatively juxtaposing images of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars and ships: Not classical columns and Gothic arches, but ships, turbines, elevators, airplanes and machine products, which Le Corbusier said were indices of 20th-century imagination.The design principles include Le Corbusier's following five points: Pilotis (columns), roof garden, floor plan, tall windows and open facades. Fundamentally calling for a radical change in architecture, Le Corbusier's book has had a lasting impact on the architectural profession, serving as a manifesto for a generation of architects, anathema for many others and, given the time in which such a text was written, arguably a critical architectural theory.

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 Steltman Chair

image from: Spectrum Rietveld Originals)

Pieces that are timeless and iconic enough to become permanent in the furniture design world are quite limited. Today I want to talk about one of these pieces. Dutch architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld's Steltman chair is one of these immortal pieces. Its story and extraordinary design make this chair special. Born in Utrecht in 1888, Rietveld is one of the most important architects and designers of his time. In particular, his membership in De Stijl modernist movement and his works with artists such as Theo van Doesburg influenced his development and style. The Steltman Chair was Rietveld's last design at the age of 75. Rietveld’s symmetrical chairs are each made up of three right-angled elements that seemingly stand on top of or against each other. Two mirrored chairs placed in front of a display case containing jewelery immediately attracted attention. Customers could choose their jewelries from these chairs. In this way, the chair also acquired a symbolic meaning: two separate, opposing forms that together form a whole. Original Steltman Chairs are covered in white leather. The wooden version, produced after Rietveld's death in 1964, is now better known.

 

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 POSTERIZE

We designed a digital poster for the final exhibition for ARCH101 course. We considered the basic organizational and compositional principles. The overall design was benefit form the geometric qualities of lines.

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 Orthographic Projection

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 ABSTRACTING THE IMAGE

We abstract the given image by enlarging it to given dimensions by drawing with  only parallel lines. We pay attention to the weight, quality and sequence of lines.

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 Architectural Imagery

We spent some time in CSO by walking around and select view points, than we took photographs and sketched the immediate environment.

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We took 2 photographs (morning and Afternoon)of the same scene with exactly same angle and frame. Than we observed and identified the operations that affects the shadow. Through identifiying and naming them be produced a cathalog of operations and we produced a 3D construct.