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Development of Theory of Architecture

This document outlines the development of architectural theory from the 15th century to present day. It discusses influential architects, theorists, and their works that helped establish conceptual frameworks and methodologies for design. Key contributors mentioned include Vitruvius, Palladio, Durand, Wright, Hadid, and Alexander. Their works established foundational principles of utility, firmness, beauty, proportion, structure, and new approaches like deconstructionism. The document also references the development of printing, oral traditions, categorical structures, and theoretical inferences that helped architecture evolve as a discipline supported by established theory.

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Development of Theory of Architecture

This document outlines the development of architectural theory from the 15th century to present day. It discusses influential architects, theorists, and their works that helped establish conceptual frameworks and methodologies for design. Key contributors mentioned include Vitruvius, Palladio, Durand, Wright, Hadid, and Alexander. Their works established foundational principles of utility, firmness, beauty, proportion, structure, and new approaches like deconstructionism. The document also references the development of printing, oral traditions, categorical structures, and theoretical inferences that helped architecture evolve as a discipline supported by established theory.

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Development of

Theory of Architecture
Suha Ozkan Hon F AIA
Roger Williams University
Bristol, Rhode Island
April 30th, 2009

General
Conceptual
Framework
Methodology
Design


General Conceptual Framework
for Methodology of Design

1971
Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972)
General System Theory
Adaptive functions
Axiomatic Structure


Karl Popper (1902 - 1994)
Hypothetico-deductive inference
Verisimilitude
Truth-likeliness


Categorization
Structure
Theory
Architecture



A Categorical Structure
for Theory of Design
1980

Johannes Gutenberg (1400? 1468)
Printing Press 1439
Joseph Rykwert (b 1926)
Masters of Gothic Architecture
Oral Culture
Secretive knowledge
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003.lnk
Marcus Vitruvius Polio 1
st
Century
Ten Books on Architecture
Utilitas, Firmitas- Venustas
Palladius

Structure of theoretical inference

ICONIC
PRAGMATIC
ANALOGIC
CANONIC
UTOPIC
DESCRIPTIVE
ISOMORPHIC

Russell L. Ackhoff
Geoffrey Broadbent

ICONIC
PRAGMATIC
CANONICAL
ANALOGIC
UTOPIC
DESCRIPTIVE
ISOMORPHIC
Farnsworth House, 1945-1951, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Zaha Hadid (b. 1950) Antwerp Port Facilities, 2009
PRAGMATIC
ICONIC

CANONICAL
ANALOGIC
UTOPIC
DESCRIPTIVE
ISOMORPHIC
Jean Nicolas Louis Durand (1760 1834)
Jean Nicolas Louis Durand (1760 1834)
Balloon Frame House
Yona Friedman (b. 1923)
CANONICAL
ICONIC
PRAGMATIC

ANALOGIC
UTOPIC
DESCRIPTIVE
ISOMORPHIC
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, (1507-1573)
Andrea Palladio (1508 80) Quattro Libri dellArchitettura
ANALOGIC
ICONIC
PRAGMATIC
CANONICAL

UTOPIC
DESCRIPTIVE
ISOMORPHIC
Leon Battista Albertis (1404 72)
De re Aedificatoria,
Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1825),
Helix City, 1961, Kisho Kurokawa
Steven Iwanczuk
Ernest Burden, Bridge
UTOPIC
ICONIC
PRAGMATIC
CANONICAL
ANALOGIC

DESCRIPTIVE
ISOMORPHIC
Antonio Filarete di Averlinos (c. 1400 69)
Trattato dArchitettura
Ideal City
Jean Claude Ledoux (1736 1806)
tienne Louis Boulle (1728-1799)
Newton Cenotaph tienne Louis Boulle (1728-1799)
Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1825),
Frank Lloyd Wright, Mile High Tower, Illinois
DESCRIPTIVE
ICONIC
PRAGMATIC
CANONICAL
ANALOGIC
UTOPIC

ISOMORPHIC
Carlo Lodoli (1690 1761),
Marc-Antoine Laugier (1719-1769)
The Rustic Hut
Essai sur lArchitecture
Philibert de lOrme (c. 1500 1570), Le premier Tome de lArchitecture
Sigfried Gideon, (1888-1968)
Space, Time and Architecture,
Bruno Zevi (1918 - 2000)
Bruno Zevi ( ) Architecture as Space
Peter Blake (1920 2006)
ISOMORPHIC
ICONIC
PRAGMATIC
CANONICAL
ANALOGIC
UTOPIC
DESCRIPTIVE

Christopher Alexander (B. 1936)
Lionel March, Dimensional Analysis of Villa Emo (Palladio)
NEW ICONOGRAPY
Deconstruction
http://www.csbe.org/e_publications/theory_in_architecture/essay8.htm
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