2. What is Architecture? Context: What is the geographic, political, economic, religious, psychological, or historical context for this building? Space: How is the building designed? How are different spaces used as they relate to FUNCTION and AESTHETICS? Climate : How does climate affect the design of this building?
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Source: http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Eiffel_Tower.html and http://www.artday.com/dayimg.php3 Eiffel Tower Commentary "...the tower was the greatest affront not only to the architecture of Paris, but also to the eye of the Parisian, for whom its structural logic and revolutionary aesthetic language were incomprehensible. "Essentially, the structure of the Eiffel Tower—which was a far-ranging extrapolation of Eiffel's spidery, wrought-iron bridge pylons—could not have been more simple: four immense, tapering, curved, lattice-girder piers that meet asymptotically. These piers rise from an immensely broad square base—125 meters on a side—and are laced together at two levels by connecting girders to form an integral unity of great stability..." — Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. p485. Details Built for the 1889 International Exhibition, Paris, the centenary celebration of the French Revolution. On the Av. Gustave Eiffel, by the river Seine. 300 m (985 ft) tall.
Source: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/sullivan/guaranty.jpg Source: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/sullivan/carsonp2.jpg (second slide shows “work as temple” concept and lingering romanticism in modern design as seen in front door in Louis Sullivan: Carson, Pirie, Scott, Building, Chicago, 1899