Module 7 Archictec

 

 

 

Questions and Topics for Your Blog Posting:

 

 

 

1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
http://proxy.buffalostate.edu:2155/p_ViewVideo.aspx?xtid=5546    Architecture: Science and Design

 

• underground sub structure to support weight of a building in order to support dead weight and living weight 
• has to take into consideration of the wind --the higher the building the wind breaks into vortex's to make the building sway
• architect structure can be within the home--not just the outside and the building of what we live in. 
• social art form ---change from rectangles, cubes, square and  replaced with  spheres and hollow forms ---innovate
• concrete being used --lifeless cold and heat resistance.  last century has become popular  sand pebbles sands and stones combined with water and cement.
• reinforced concrete never breaks  it will crack
• ordinary cement is only used for foundations. 
• pre-stressed concrete is water resistant

 

http://proxy.buffalostate.edu:2155/p_ViewVideo.aspx?xtid=39948
Last Chance for Planet Earth

• climate change
• buildings can reduce energy
• we all look at the same thing and it glues us together
• evolvement with building structures that reduce energy and help with being eco-friendly materials
• change our cities live closer to work, use less cars, know the difference between what is used and what is wasted
• using areas for more than one use

 

 

 

 

2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?


In Chapter 14 they talk about how the roof on the a dome is rounded forming the top of the building with a circular base.  With in the video Science and Design they spoke of replacing squares and cube shapes with circular spheres.  Now in times we have all different shapes of structures especially when it has to do with sports domes and stadiums that are built around the world.  With bridges and their structure holes are dug and filled with cement in order to hold the structure. The suspensions and cables still can catch the wind that flows along with the reinforced concrete that is set into place in order to of the dead weight and weight with life. This is seen in 13.27 Foster and Partners Picture


This plays an important role in our lives with expanding and sustaining communities.  Building are built in up rises or high rises in order to accommodate our growing population.  People need their own space we need more schools, libraries, businesses.  We preserve our past and old buildings to keep the originality of hand made architecture that brought us to where we are today.  This is the growing and evolving to eco friendly materials to produce living quarters and buildings that cost us less energy as well as help with the environment with our growing concerns for healthy, green efficient homes. 

 

 

 

3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of Architecture?

 

 Architecture: Science and Design, Last Call for Planet Earth
I have never once thought all of the different data and studying went into these buildings.  I mean the structure of the building yes, but to determine that a building made of cement and metal could sway and special structures need to be made in order to keep this buildings safe with everyone in it.  Fascinating for minimizing energy consumption for a smart house/apt.  This is amazing for everything to be hooked up to computer turning on of the water to heat up the shower, to doing dishes at night when electricity is in less demand.  Our minds do not work to think of these facts we take them for granted.  Architecture to be associated with this has to do with exceeding the demands of human lives.  This isn't just in the structure of building we work or live in but actually inside living with us.  We have some of these things now in forms of apps on our phones that can control the locks on our doors, our televisions in our living rooms and the lights in our house. 
We need to take pride in where we live and how we live.  This world is deteriorating in front of us.  We can start with things we all do day to day now that building is put into perspective of building with echo friendly materials in order to assist with what we need to do from day to day in order to protect our future. we will never have 0 waste but we can reduce waste by taking our own personal steps as supplied in the video living closer to work or even pay attention to how we recycle

 

 

 

 

4. Why did you choose the films that you watched?
For the first video I chose  Architecture: Science and Design I was curious for the reasoning of how they interpreted science with design. 

 

For Last Chance for Plant Earth I tried to pick a different link but non of the others ones worked.  this was the last on the list.

Step 4: Create a Blog Posting About Your Experience
Questions and Topics for Your Blog Posting:
1. Hyperlink the Blogs you reviewed into your Blog
2. When looking at Project #1: (Elements and Principles), did you agree with the element or principle the artist listed with the images? Did you see other elements and principles in the images?
3. When looking at Project #2: Where there any images in the Peer Blogs the same as your own? If yes, what were they? Where the reasons the image was selected the same or different as your own?
4. Where there any images that your Peers selected that pique your interest now? If yes, what are they and what is your connection with them? What would you want to know about them?
5. What do you think about  the process of reading your peers reflection? Do you find this to be a valuable in your learning?
6. Check your Blog and read comments posted by your Peers. Do you find their comments helpful?


http://dana-art-yka.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-trip-to-albright-knox.html
http://lckartblog.blogspot.com/
2. For project one the elements photos with Dana were different than mine and I like the differences I seen with you pics and mine.  For Larry's pictures I was really into them with all the nature pics and movement pics.  I feel like he went all out and into it when taking those element pics. 
3.  for project 2 we had no painting that were alike.  Dana picked Monet I didn't look at them to much due to the other art work that has less of picture and more of pieces to put together and guess is what catches my interest. With Jerry again neither of us picked the same art work.  His descriptions of the dogs feet moving that caught his attention with Giacomo Balla is something that did draw me also when I saw it  just wasn't one that I picked. 
4.  I didn't care for the Monet's much due to color arraignments and choices.  I want something that jumps out at me and catches my attention to make me think. 
5.  I liked to read her reflection to see what she was thinking.  She reflected each piece she looked at of Monet's to something in her life.  Like when she first visited the gallery it was cold and snowy and this connected her to Monet's The Break up of Ice.  Larry broadened his thinking with not only placing himself with the art work but the direct effect of what drew him to the art work. 
6.  When I read the comments under my blog it made me feel like I was actually doing something and beginning to slightly understand this thing called art and how some of it works.  Proud that I made good choices for Project 1 and corresponding the art work with the differences of recognizing the 14 elemets

• through the eyes of a sculpture http://fod.infobase.com/p_ViewPlaylist.aspx?AssignmentID=RUXEGP
• glass and ceramics http://fod.infobase.com/p_ViewPlaylist.aspx?AssignmentID=Q7KFZA
• Questions and Topics for Your Blog Posting:
  1.For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
  Through the eyes of the sculpture following Emanuel was very interesting.  Every stone has a different smell.  A process is completed for each individual stone.  Weird to think that a stone is heavier when wet. The stone is 50% of the art already and the sculptor decide the other 50%.   A stone carver is generally never asked to do an entire monument they are asked to do individual pieces of the monument the hand, the foot etc., very rarely are they asked to do an entire figure. Feelings are used to carve life into the shape.  Feelings into stone?  What a concept amazing in my opinion.  Kind of like a cook and his or her food.   Each stone that is choses is checked to make sure it is good and no cracks are inside of the stone.  This is done with a hammer and sound differs when cracks are located.   
  Moving sculptures can be difficult in order not to damage bridges are left to hold pieces say between fingers or even a possible base. . Once the sculpture is in place they take out the bridges (pieces) from the sculpture. Visualizing in head is when it becomes real.  Has to be drawn.  Not a lot of detail so that when sculpting brings out the enhancement of the piece.   Stone and a figure make life.  Making a mold after finishing a sculpture of clay next step is to cast in plaster then taken apart fills with plaster and this is the clay and marble.  Pieces of mountain are taken for the stone.  For special size the sculpture goes to pick it out.  No stone is wasted it is actually put into our essentials we use every day!  OMG our toothpaste, food, paper product, paints and pharmaceuticals.  Marble is 99.9% calcium carbonate. 
  The stone is 50% of the art already and the sculptor decide the other 50%
   
  In the film glass and ceramics glass is made from sand.  It’s a liquid not a solid but becomes stiff when it cools after heated.  Heating the glass allows the sand to break apart.  It can be shaped at will.  With stained glass pictures separate pieces of colored glass are pieced together with cementation.  Room lite has a determination it is put into the stained glass.  A small drawing is completed first and then it is numbered to be cut out to cut the glass.    Each piece of glass is fitted together and then sodered and covered in putty so that water doesn’t leak through. 
  2.How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
  In chapter 11 with casting it stated that sometimes the sculpture never touches the final piece of sculpture at all.  Same with in the video where the sculptures may be assigned to different parts of a sculpture.  As we use the mountains and lands to get the stone to sculpt a figure, people have worked to sculpt our landscape.  Its not always about a figure but yet about where we live and a determination of beauty.  Sculpting figures out of trees and bushes or creating a figure with different colored flowers to represent a figure.    In chapter 12 techniques are used making sculptures out of glass, metal, wood and clay.  Since glass can be shaped at will this is different from having to sculpt the actual stone with precision.  Ceramics also come into shape with fire. They are made most often with a rock with a clay base.  Glass was a luxary product in the ancient world.  The reading also tells how the stained glass is a technique used for windows, lampshades and other structures that light passes through.  Metal is also heated into a liquid in order for it to be worked on. 
   
   
  3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the topics: Sculpture, Installation, and Craft?
   This is all made with feeling.  Love for working with hands and love for detail of a figure to express one self.  The stone is shipped from all over the world and the process isn’t just sculpting from one person but yet many sculptures had a part to help.     We use our land for many products we take for granted.  Our glasses we drink out of or even our dishes and pans we use on a regular basis.  I will never look at anything the same after this class.  Pictures, sculptures, glasses its all made with essentials form mother nature earth.  Installation rather than sculptures focus more on arrangement of use that the use of space that surrounds our environment.  sculptures usually focus on the main interpretation of the views while actually looking at the sculpture itself..  with installation the arrangements of different sculptures put together represents what the artist is trying to portray. 

The main difference between installation and sculpture is that installations focuses more on the arrangement use, use of space and surrounding environment within the artwork, artwork is seen as a whole together with the site the work is set in. While sculptures usually focuses on the main subject and interpretation of the vieweres while looking at the sculpture itself. Sculptures thus is not site specific, usually are not seen with surrounding environment as a whole.