Macro to Mirco

Porch/Court/Hearth

Within the Acropolis you can find a porch, court, and hearth.  The porch is the main entrance way.  In the Acropolis, the Propylaia is considered the porch.  "Entry is through a propylon gate into a court." (Roth, 218)  The court is the main area of open space. In the Acropolis, the area between the Parthenon and the Erechtheion is the court.  The hearth is the area that is private and only allows certain people in.  The Parthenon is only for priests to allow them to worship. 

Diagram

A diagram illustrates more about what happens with each part.  For our buildings we were assigned, we took a look at each the context, function, circulation, and hierarchy for the building then to diagram them using a key.  I looked at the function of the building.  I outlined in blue the parts of the building that were private, and outlined in orange the parts that were public.

 Impression

Impression is the image you see when you first look at it.  In history we studied the different cathedrals types.  I looked at the Amiens Cathedral in France and the impression it gives of being such a tall piece of architecture shows its importance. "Churches and other religious buildings emerged as the preeminent architecture." (Roth, 298)  They built the cathedrals making the interior a mystic image of heaven.

Detail

A detail is something that is something so small that is actually something big.  In drawing class we have been assigned a building on campus to study and draw and our last assignment was to pick a detail from that building that lets people know what building it is.  I chose to draw the arches made with brick.  Arches could be seen a lot of places, but the bridge, linking Curry and Ferguson buildings together, with the arches underneath lets people know what building you mean. 

Composition

The composition is how the different parts make up the whole.  I think a good composition that works well is one that the page is balanced out and has equal movement, context, and color.  At the beginning of this semester we were asked to draw five things that illuminate us.  I think that the image below is a good composition I did because I thought out where the objects would go on the page before I just drew them.  The text is written around the object it talks about and I think that the orange works well and there isn't too much of orange or black used.