roadtrip

Road Trip
Roots : When talking about roots in relation to my studies of interior architecture I would define roots as being something that everything evolves from it is the beginning or the inspiration for today’s design ideas. This past week in my history and theory of design class we talked a lot about the city of Chicago and about the origins of sky scrapers. We looked at how glass metal and concrete were used to build these buildings these buildings are major roots for the many skyscrapers that are so common today. In reading Roth I found that Sullivan played a large part in the modern architectural movement. “Sullivan’s rational analysis of the moderns office tower, applying the essence of his Ecole training, laid the basis for the modern architectural movement, as early historians of modernism recognized.” (Roth 503)
Congruence: The definition of congruence is the agreement or the relation of things to one another. In my history and theory of design class this past week we have been looking at Frank Lloyd Wright it is interesting since we went to Falling Water to see all of the similarities from Wrights Falling Water and his other designs. Roth talked about how Wright used the idea of horizontal lines in the majority of his designs this cause the congruence of his work. “As Wright built suburban residences in the flat prairie land around Chicago, he began to stretch them out into the landscape and to emphasize their horizontal lines in his designs.” (Roth 496)
Concept: Concept can be defined as the original idea behind something or the inspiration for something. In my history and theory of design class we have been talking about the concepts behind buildings. I am currently working on a precedent analysis on the Disney concert hall in which eh concept had to do with the flowing movement of music. Roth talked about concept “This associationalism became an underlying concept in the stylistic eclectism that pervaded the nineteenth century and the later rise of historicist Postmodernism.”(Roth 469)

Materiality: Materiality defined is the act of being material or the relevance of something. The materials that we have been focusing on in history and theory of design class is glass concrete and steel. Roth talks about these materials “Another result of this factory building system was the de facto standardization of prefabricated parts in the cast-iron columns and wrought iron beams.” (Roth 486) “The rapidly developing technology in building in iron provided the answer, allowing extremely light trusses to be made of wrought-iron bars and rods.” (Roth 489) In my studio class we also talk about materials we have to use a variety of different ones such as MDF or wood or paper.
Compression: Release: Compression is the idea of putting things together usually with the intention of storing or making something new. In design compression is pulling ideas together and making something of your own. The act of using the compressed ideas would be the release. In relation to my classes an example would be my precedent analysis or my drawing board for Suzanne because we are compressing a lot of information together and coming up with a final overall result/ display of the information.
Synopsis: IN review of these words I see a relation between the words especially to my precedent analysis. When making a precedent analysis I have to compress information have an overall concept have congruence of ideas all tied to roots or in this case the building being analyzed.