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- The Collective Group of the Nine Egyptian creator Gods.
- Nine is a special number because it is unique. When it is multiplied by any number, the sum of all the digets alwasy equals nine.
- Anon was the first god who created Shu and Tefna by masturbating. They created Geb and Nub who created Isis and Osirus. Who created Horus. Seth was the evil uncle of horus who chopped Osirus into 14 pieces. He was resurected by Isis by mummification.
- First 8 Gods (octoid)
- This forms a pyramid so architecture related to it. |
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-Ancient Egyptian written language.
-Each letter is a picture that represents something.
-Has two meanings. |
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-The Idea of one
-Pyramid starting with one, and going to four.
-Represents how the sun reaches the four corners of the world. |
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| -Similar to the Tetractys, reduced to cords in music. |
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-Four Elements Earth, Air, Fire, Water
-Represented by the cube, octohedran, pyramid and Icosahedren.
-Determined by the atoms that make these elements.
-They are the four simpelest polygons to be inscribed in a sphere.
-Designed by god, and god is an architect. |
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-Ration 1:6
-Found in human body and any Natural form (trees, animals, snail shells)
-Used in the facade of the Parthenon.
-Floor plan of the systene chapel ad the vitruvian man. |
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- First Number, plus the next number equals the third number in a series of numbers.
-1 2 3 5 6 13
-Golden Ration between each number.
-Fibonacci is a mathematition from pisa, He observed this patter in nature in leaves going up a tree> |
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| Celestial Venus/ Earthly Venus |
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- Goddess of bueaty and love (greek=aphrodite)
-Born from the sea fome, and concieved when Kronus cut the genitals off of ouranos and threw them into the sea
-Botachelli illustrated the birth of veus
-Earthly Venis is vulger and clothed
-Celestial venus is pure and posesses the Idea of Bueatythat does not actually exsist in a material world. |
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- Origional fom of something
-For plato, origional form is the way the gods created the universe
-Peopel always have a desire to go back t where things start.
-architecure is made based on an archtype |
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-Relation between what you produce and its meaing
-Material vs. Ideal
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-Drawing by Leonardo DiVinchi based on a paragraph by vitruvius, describing the ideal human proportions.
-The navel is the center of the body and the body can be inscribed in a perfect circle.
-When the body is upright and the arms outstretched, it can be inscribed in a perfect square.
-Only thing that can connect hevan and earth is humans. |
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-putting together a group of parts.
-Results are greater than the sum of all the objects seperatly.
-Alberti achieved this in his architecture.
-Always additive |
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-Alberti distinguishes b/w linament and matter
-Architecture will be architectuare when it is percieved |
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-Literal Construction= construction with perspective.
-Vanishing point and herizon line are main components.
-Vanishing point in theology=god because it is the piont of least substence. |
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-Figures of Speach, poetic language.
-4 Principle tropes, Metaphor(espression), Metonymy (Projecting human body ino the world around us), Stnecpoche (Use part to represent whole), Irony (saying oposite of expected) |
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-Unfolding and outfolding
-Complicate/Explicate |
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-triparti hierarch of the human mind, material world and god.
-Seen agin in the vitruvian man
-Esample in Borominis st Carlo: church divided into three leves wit ha circle, octagon and cross shapes. |
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-One half the sum of two extremes.
-Ex. 2+8=10 10/2=5 |
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-Root of the product of two extremes
-2x8=16 Root of 16=4 |
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-Internal Design
-Lineament and matter
-Desing in head to the object
-arrange the sylables to spell sign of god=divine intelegence |
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