Philosophy in Architectural Design

Activity Session One:
 First in class discussion/drawing:
1. What is the philosophy in architectural design?
The connection among philosophy and architecture is interrogative and propositional.
It is tied in with making inquiries concerning the significance of human home—living
in assembled environs—and about assessing plans and configuration ventures where
human prospering and social advancement can best happen—in what sorts of
structures, inside spaces and urban regions. The accompanying arrangements of
inquiries address issues—stylish, moral, and political issues, just as powerful and
epistemological concerns—that relate theory to design. In spite of the fact that
philosophers and building scholars (and frequently plan specialists) can each be relied
upon to have an enthusiasm for any or all these inquiries, as researchers or open
educated people of a sort, architectural and engineering scholars have played to such
an extent, if not more, of a title role in forming the field than philosophers have
("Architecture & Philosophy", 2018). It should be noted that there exists no single
connection among architecture and philosophy. Nevertheless, there are likely
numerous associations that make this an essential multi-, between and trans-
disciplinary field, and these associations can be conveyed to basis thinking about the
development of building history architects, scholars, and designers as specific sorts of
erudite people and "philosophical" operators with obligations regarding the built
environment.
2. What are the key concepts you understood from the video?
i. Architecture as a work of art, structure medium, or practice.
ii. Architectural objects—what sorts of things they are; the way they contrast
from different sorts of articles; and how we characterize the scope of such
items.

iii. Uncommon design properties, similar to the standard trio of structural integrity
(firmitas), excellence, and utility—or space, light, and structure; and ways
they may be extraordinary to engineering.
iv. Conceptual art—how to think about dynamic assemblages of architectural
objects and their appearances.
3. How do you bring the philosophy of architecture from concept to final design project?
(Sketch your concepts and explain how you relate that concept to the specific
philosophy).
Through conceptual art I consider basic elements in designs and their interactions. For
instance, putting load bearing members such as columns and beams of sufficient sizes
with sufficient reinforcing and aesthetically correct.
Sketch figure incorporating philosophy conceptual art.
 Second in class discussion/drawing:
1. Compare the design movements regarding their philosophy (Prepare one A3 Sheet
and sketch your idea and concept which is related to each design movements
philosophy).

The design movements include; conceptual art, Abstract Expressionism, Art Deco,
Bauhaus, etc. Abstract expressionism is a post– World War II workmanship
development in American painting, created in New York during the 1940s. It was
the principal explicitly American development to accomplish global impact and put
New York City at the focal point of the western workmanship world, a job once in
the past filled by Paris. Art Deco, additionally called style moderne, development in
the brightening expressions and design that began during the 1920s and formed into
a noteworthy style in western Europe and the United States amid the 1930s (Morris
& Morris, 2019). Bauhaus, in full Staatliche’s Bauhaus, school of structure,
engineering, and connected expressions that existed in Germany from 1919 to 1933.
It was situated in Weimar until 1925, Dessau through 1932, and Berlin in its last
months. Conceptual art, likewise called post-object workmanship or workmanship
as-thought, fine art whose medium is a thought (or an idea), more often than not
controlled by the instruments of language and at times reported by photography. Its
concerns are thought based instead of formal ("Philosophy", 2019).
2. What are the most well-known buildings in Melbourne and the world, which
represent diverse design movements? (Start sketching them in one A3 sheet and
mention based on what characteristics they represent design movements).
i. Flinders Street Station: Features a green dome, arched entrance and clock
tower.
ii. Manchester Unity Building: neogothic design, first building to feature
escalators and air conditioners in Melbourne.
iii. Old Treasury Building: Fashioned from bluestone and sandstone, built based
on Renaissance Revival architecture.
 Third in class discussion/drawing: