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These is the original abstract painting I did. However, when revising it i noticed that the colors needed a little more brightness.

This is the revised version after being edited.

Revisions
I feel that revision is a very important word when it comes to design. Many times it is necessary to look over something to make it better. In studio class we are always asked to make iterations. These are drafts of what are to be the models. We usually take these drafts/ iterations and revise them to take certain areas the may need revision and make them better. It is very important to revise your work for any errors or craft that may need to be fixed. Without revising your work you can never turn in anything that is perfect or at least that can reach your expectations. It is similar in history by the way Roth talks about the replanning of the Campidoglio. At first Michelangelo “introduced order to the irregular geometry of the existing buildings.” (Roth 381) After being revised we see how now they decided to change in into another style. “In the new facades and buildings he added, Michelangelo shaped not a square but a trapezoidal space.”(Roth 381) This shows that after looking back at this architecture they change the certain characteristic and make them better. Also later we see how Bernini “ needed a broad space to accommodate the crowds who gather at Easter” (Roth 408) at Saint Peters. However, Bernini had to revise the existing buildings because “ the Vatican palace intruded from the north, making it impossible to create one large, simple geometric enclosure.”(Roth 408) We see that when Bernini revised this problem he found the pros and cons and concluded with the overall solution to this problem that was to divide the piazza into two parts.

When making this presentation board, my group and I wanted to incorporate something that would capture the audiences attention by including a three dimensional structure that popped out at the top.

Audience
When focusing on what you are making is always important to keep in mind the audience or the spectators that will be interacting with your design. Like we talked about last week with the design process and story each one of these need an audience. The audience is the person who will interact with this structure/story and will be able to relate to it and give it its purpose. For example Roth talks about Francesco Borromini, Church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, where people were attracted to the appearance of the façade and interior. “ Everything in it is arranged in such manner that one part supplements the other and that the spectator is stimulated to let his eye wander about ceaselessly.”(Roth 411) By making this church as interesting as possible it brought in an audience and caught their attention and also makes them come time after time because it is so interesting that it never gets boring. When designing something you want it to always captivate your audience, whether it is by sight or the sense of feeling it creates.

When drawing this furniture I noticed that it showed a distinct characteristic of its own. It shows character because it is rare to see furniture that is unique as this one.

Character
Often times I like to think of character as being what the person really is. For example, the character in a story always has certain traits that make up their "character". It is important that we keep in mind peoples character because when doing something for them, we want to keep in mind the different characteristics that each person has. For example, Blakemore talks about furniture having its own character. Blakemore says “Queen Anne furniture can be characterized as exquisite and constrained…”(Blakemore 267) Here we see how people may know this type of furniture by what its made of or by the way it looks , in this case exquisite. “Its is a style distinguished by exceptional craftsmanship, walnut wood, and a fine sense of proportion.” (Blakemore 267) This, once again, shows us how this furniture can have the different qualities and have its own character. Also, Blakemore talks about the advancement of the arts for the Georgian furniture. “ It was appropriate to design furniture of Baroque character consonant with their interiors…” (Blakemore 274) This means that the Palladians designed using the characteristics of the baroque period that consisted of movement, energy and tension. When looking at how Roth talks about character we see that is in a similar way by talking about the Romanesque vaults. “ The interior had a lightness that made the vaults appear to be rising and tied down by the columns rather than being massive and veering down upon the columns.” (Roth 330) As you can see they use certain characteristic to refer to certain architecture. So things that may look heavier are instead built as if they were lighter. So each one has its own different character and can be characterized differently.

This is a Volute

Transition
Most of the time in all projects we do in class, we transition from one to the other. Usually the one we do first transitions to the other, which is then transitioned to the next and so on; Keeping the same idea or concept, but then changing the overall ideas of the project. For example the “found in translation” projects we did led from one to the other, developing from the first model we did and using certain characteristics from it to put on the next. In history, transitions are made using existing elements. Roth uses “long, curved volutes to make a graceful transition from the square of the upper part of the nave block to the two squares of the lower part of the façade.” (Roth 369) This talks about transition in a way of moving from the volutes to the other parts of the building. A great example of this would be by looking at the Church of Gesu, which took from this design, which was first seen at the Church of Santa Maria Novella. However, Blakemore talks about transition in terms of Periods. Around the 1730-1790 Louis XV style dominated, but “during the period of transition characteristics of both styles were used in combination.” (Blakemore 290) This shows that transition is not only seen through different building elements and their characteristics but can also be seen as a transition in time.

This image illustrates the facts that are talked about in the paragraph.

Datum
Datum is a single piece of information that is also to be a fact. Usually we have to stay within the datum line of what we are doing. Keeping the main idea and main point always in mind. For example, a datum in history can be a fact that is proven by quoting someone’s words. Roth quotes Cassiano dal Pozzo “ it’s the great disgrace of our age that, although it has before it such beautiful ideas and such perfect rules in venerable, old building, none the less it allows the whim of a few artists who wish to break way from the antique to bring architecture back to barbarism. (Roth 397) To me this would be considered a fact because it is stated in the book and we also went over it in class as a point of view.

Overall, Architecture as a whole is piece of art that is always being revised with many different things being added to it. Each different piece of art transitions to another where certain thing may have the same characteristics that other structures have. Even though they may have similar things each piece still has its own individual character that attracts different spectators and has its own set of preferred audience. However, each one staying within its own line of datum.