the need for order in architecture is a fundemental one
- modern architecture = engaged on a search for a formal international opinion and came to the conclusion that a formal opinion might not only be impossible but irrelevant.
- search for order = search for "appropriatness"
= architecture of "place"
concerns of modern architecture:
- buildings must relate to teh climate
- buildings must relate to teh people who will inhabit it.
- buildings have to be useful and usable not subject to outside aesthetics
architects need to make a virtue of necessity = broader consciousness regarding environment and place-making.
meanings of order:
- condition in which every part/unit is in its right place = relationship between elements/components
-way in which elements/components are arranged/organised
-imply a hierachy in the way in which things are arranged
- refer to sequences
-refer to assemblages/how things are brought together = elements joined/connected
-architecture is a physical = spatial phenomenon and ordering of space is the most fundamental architectural activity.
-introduces logic
-"function" is an important ordering principle yet its expression is related to "placeness" not some abstract and arbitrary reference.
=order is a way of starting physical parameters within which the building evolves -constraints, problems evolve= ordering ideas.
=construction - limitations and opportunities = order space
= order subordinated - building experienced as not based on good sense.
= order in human settlements originate from patterns - design clues on how the space maybe structured
a designer recognises the possibility of order and develops an argument for this perception through the development of the design.
