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TPH408 architecture, assimilation, metabolism ...an essay on architecture making a distinction between an architecture of assimilation and an architecture of metabolism. Renaissance architecture is assimilating. Michelangelo's architecture is metabolic, as is Baroque architecture. Piranesi exemplifies assimilation and metabolism coming together, and the early modern movement (Purism, Bauhaus) exemplifies the end of assimilation. ...the analysis of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye and the Palais des Congrés à Strasbourg as a move (within Le Corbusier's design methodology) from an assimilation based design process to a metabolic based design process. |
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