reading detail & poetry

questions from Friday seminar

post your responses by this Wednesday @1pm

* as a side read, the symbolism books I referred to are

"The Language of Things" by Deyan Sudjic and

"System of Objects" by Jean Baudrillard.

1. As the technique of detailing changed from the hands of the craftsman to the tools of the architect, how has the resulting construction of details changed? Explain in terms of scale, material and cost.

2. How does "geometrical relationship" of individual details provide an understanding of the whole building if "indirect vision" localizes the viewer and "habit determines to a large extent even optical reception"?

3. Carlo Scarp's details are a "result of an intellectual game" where the Open City buildings are constructed from an act of poetry. Describe what role the detail plays to "tell-the-tale" in each of these environments.

4. Pendleton-Jullian writes about the Open City as emerging from and being in the landscape. Does allowing landscape to initiate "the configuration of territory and space" challenge Western building notions, and how so?

5. Describe some detail conditions of the Open City that convey "lightness" as Pendleton-Jullian refers to.