This exhibit features artwork created by students in Dr. Berrin Terim's ARCH 8600 class, The Emergence of Modern Architecture. Students created artwork inspired by historical architectural treatises, all of which are a part of the Gunnin Architecture Library collection. Click through the gallery of images below, read Dr. Terim's assignment, and click on the links to see the books in our library catalog (scroll down on this page). The books are currently on display with the artworks.
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“The Hearth and the Social Flame” uncovers the universal influence of fire on architecture, echoing Alberti’s Renaissance insights. This exhibition traces the hearth’s journey— evolving from a practical source of warmth to a symbol of community and spirituality across cultures, revealing its role as a central element shaping social spaces and spiritual connections.
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Madison Adams, Ciela Stark, Anna Turco
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description of artwork : The words chosen from Palladio’s, I quattro libri dell’architettura, are juxtaposed against the illustration they describe, to highlight the disparity in using only the written word to describe architecture. But to experience the illustration, one must peer from within the pages and gaze back upon oneself.
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Erin Allen, Eric Johnson, Paige Kooyenga
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[image 3, group member modeling peering through the text during the review]
description of artwork : To juxtapose muqarnas of antiquity and contemporary designs, we digitally modeled one based on their geometries. The print became a cast for plaster. Each half is reflected in a mirror; from the side, it creates the illusion of being complete. The two mirrors are back-to-back, with the space between representing what has been lost over time.
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Ryan Brown, Zachary Falls, Charlotte Littlejohn
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description of artwork : Sebastian Serlio’s Magic Scene, Theatrical Scene Design exemplifies his principles on geometry, perspective, and ornamentation. When creating a 3D rendition of this image, one can fashion a visual journey for viewers to feel as if they are crossing from one threshold to another, fully immersing them in the scene.
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Emily Eller, Lyndsay Flippin, Nancy McKenzie
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description of artwork : The artifact we created is a cardboard pyramid that stands on its side and has an image printed on each panel. Each of the panels, when aligned, culminates in a three-dimensional scene, tricking the eye to perceive the image as space. To further stabilize the artifact, we incorporated an acrylic stand to elevate the illusion.
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Christian Bravo, Leonor Fleming, Yash Salian
description of artwork : Our artifact is a multi sensory experience that encapsulates the senses; sight, smell, sound, touch. It is a suspended curtain that contains a reflective plate filled with water, bubbling rapidly, and lit up from the underside enhancing the shadows. [image displays the exterior of the curtained environment]
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Kasey Kardosz, Kylee Russell, Kenna Zeitz
description of artwork : Each individual person has their own idea of composition. The use of a visual, interactive artifact allows the viewer to create their own physical composition. The purpose of the artifact is to visually represent how Durand views composition as a series of elements making up a whole.
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Matthew Fernandes, Amber Levengood, Alexis Miller
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description of artwork : Using the Kaledioscope and the image we created one can focus on different parts of the image and create different compositions, which do not have any connection to its parent image. It is to represent the confusion and false idea Filarete had on Eastern Architecture and the drawings he created with some part of its architecture elements.[image of gazing into the object]
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Shawn Brown, Cassandra Payne, Namitha Shaju
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The Genius of Architecture; or, the Analogy of That Art with Our Sensations by
This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics.Camus's description of the French hotel argues that architecture should please the senses and the mind.
Pr'ecis of the Lectures on Architecture by
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand Durand (1760-1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802-5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise. Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism. His formal systematization of plans, elevations, and sections transformed architectural design into a selective modular typology in which symmetry and simple geometrical forms prevailed. His emphasis on pragmatic values, to the exclusion of metaphysical concerns, represented architecture as a closed system that subjected its own formal language to logical processes. Now published in English for the first time, the Précis and the Graphic Portion are classics of architectural education.
Perspective in Architecture and Painting by
Influential classic spread Italian baroque style to northern Europe, Britain. Rare 1707 English edition. Over 300 decorative cuts and figures.
On the Art of Building in Ten Books by
De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first modern treatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance for the subsequent history of architecture is incalculable, yet this is the first English translation based on the original, exceptionally eloquent Latin text on which Alberti's reputation as a theorist is founded.
Four Books of Architecture by
Exemplary reprint of 16th-century classic. Covers classical architectural remains, Renaissance revivals, classical orders, more. 1738 Ware English edition. 216 plates. ". . . a new and splendid edition of what has probably been the most influential book published in the history of architecture since its first appearance in 1570." -- Art in America.
Risāle-i miʻmāriyye : an early-seventeenth-century Ottoman treatise on architecture : facsimile with translation and notes by
The Risāle-i Mi'māriyye by Ca'fer Efendi is the most extensive and detailed Ottoman literary source devoted to a particular architect. In addition to being an account of the life and works of the imperial architect Mehmed Ağa, builder of the Sultan Ahmed Complex in Istanbul, it serves to suggest something of the general character and career evolution of the entire class of Ottoman imperial architects of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and includes as well a trilingual glossary of terms related to architecture. With the exception of the more abridged teẕkeres of Mustafa Sa'i elebi dealing with Sinan, the Risāle-i Mi'māriyye is the only systematic Ottoman account of the life an imperial architect known to exist.
Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture by
In this text Serlio provides the reader with the rules of geometry, an account of the splendours of ancient Rome and a manual of how to incorporate classical features into design.
Contents:
v. 1. Books I-V of 'Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva' -- v. 2. Books VI and VII of 'Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva' ; with, 'Castrametation of the Romans' and 'The extraordinary book of doors'.
Filarete's treatise on architecture : being the treatise by Antonio di Piero Averlino, known as Filarete
Contents
v. 1. The translation -- v. 2. The facsimile
The Obiective of this proiect is to realize the power of representation in "writing" the history of architecture. The way we represent buildings / models / drawings and order that information, is how we make knowledge. This knowledge is highly bounded to the 'eye' of the era, and the unconcious agendas embedded within. As we will see in this class, the way historical buildings were brought to the architectural discourse in the Renaissance was very different than the way they were studied in the eighteenth / nineteenth century. In the twenty-first century we are yet to re-write histories based on this awareness.
This research project consists of a verbal and a visual component.. [the visual of which is exhibited outside of the library and shown in this guide]
STRUCTURE:
1) In groups of 3 you will be assigned one treatise.
- Research the treatise / the author / his status and perspective.
- Read parts of the treatise in order to identify either one building / one element /one concept / one drawing /one construction technique / etc.
- Analyze how that 'one thing' is described.
2) Research that 'one thing' in visuals:
- If it is one building, find various representations of that one building.
-If it is one element, find examples of it cross-culturally and across time.
- If it is one concept, study how that concept is changed / adapted across time.
-If it is one drawing / one construction technique / etc. find many versions of that 'one'.
3) Bring all these visuals on a board (16 images) & write your research paper (min 2500)
1) Present your research +visual board +the design of the display.
DISPLAY:
-Synthesize your research into an art-work to be displayed in the final exhibition. Your piece
should consist of one dimensional representation (model) -min. 2 mirrors and / or a
projection.
5) Final manifesto:
-An individual reflection on how your research and its representation relates to the
contemporary discourse in architecture.