1. ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE

2. OBJECTIVES To understand the nature of architecture To understand how the nature of architecture has affected urban form To understand how a new urban architecture is evolving

3. THE NATURE OF ARCHITECTURE

4. Even in Britain, long ago, most people made their own buildings

5. Gradually a gap developed between building and dwelling

6. Later, as economies developed, a gap opened up between designing and building

7. Industrialisation created a market for ever more specialised design services: Engineers: specialists in new materials and structure Architects: specialists in art

8. Post world war two, a market for town planning was developed: Architects: move even more into the art camp Planners: specialists in social and management issues

9. Art Design Architecture

12. Environmental Infrastructure: Aeons Public Space Network: Millennia Plots: Centuries Buildings: Decades Components: Indeterminate CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

13. FRANK GEHRY:$130,000,000

17. TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE NATURE OF ARCHITECTURE HAS AFFECTED URBAN FORM

18. Buildings: the unique selling proposition

21. Permeability Integrated network Vitality Active interface The Admirable Types of Responsive Environments Perimeter block In the end this creates a problem

22. From perimeter blocks to monuments

26. TO UNDERSTAND HOW A NEW URBAN ARCHITECTURE IS EVOLVING

34. For discussion on Friday Week 5 at 9am Ill ask each student: To highlight one key point from the lecture and explain why you thought it was interesting; To discuss what you learnt from the lecture that can be applied to the design of the Cowley march park.