chair card showdown

our chair card czar, brian peck, prepared this "throwdown" for students in iar221 today.

working to gain a bonus point for their groups by identifying the four chairs in question, brian called forward top chair card students laura belding, tereasa douglas, claire drug, matt wallace, monica clendenin, cat wilson, + april johnson (some pictured here) to identify the chairs on the screen.

week 5 in 140

image from : http://www.nriinternet.com/NRIhindu/MALAYSIA/Malaysia-demolshing_Hindu_Temples/Malaysian_Mariamman_Temple_1.JPG

eyes dance across surface, music enfolds, light washes from above. worship spaces stand as tangible expressions of faith in glass and stone.

evolution of early churches

pendentive

a pendentive is "any of several spandrels, in the form of spherical triangles, forming a transition between the circular plan of a dome and the polygonal plan of the supporting masonry." - dictionary.com

this unique feature of architecture is a further development of churches, expanding on the early idea of the basilica.  during this time period, there was an idea of religion as an institution, where people would go to churches and visually read what the architecture provided.  this created a visual language, that is demonstrated in early and present day churches.

the pendentive is used in many churches, including the Hagia Sophia, which was the first masterpiece of Byzantine architecture.  the dome sits at the center of the building, and is 102 feet in diameter and 182 feet in height.  

hagia sophia

another religious structure that uses the pendentive is the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, located in istanbul, turkey.  it is more commonly known as the Blue Mosque, due to the blue tiles that cover its interior walls.  the design of this mosque draws from a combination of Byzantine architecture and Ottoman architecture.  the interior is lined with over 20,000 handmade tiles in more than 50 different designs.  

blue mosque

music+design. TEAM ORANGE

A haiku about the World Trade Center Memorial Design:

Blue-colored light beams
Balanced above the city
Contrast the night sky

by Beth Lowder

Violet Group Architecture and Frozen Music

In circuitous motion and color,
plastic animals to be your caller.
Each layer it beams
a different value it seems.
Won't stop till you pay a dollar.

poem by Joylyn Waegerie

image:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjnewton/5231212932/lightbox/

design+music: green team

The cadence of the banister marks the rhythm of this piece;

As we climb, the repetition echoes from our feet.

There's balance in the spirals, harmony between each layer;

The emphasis on finale, ascending high into the air. 

 

alexander bissinger

 

music + architecture: team blue

cardiff car park in wales, via: flicker 

…

ride the harmony wave

music sets the path to pave.

let the rhythm flow free

and order and structure will come you’ll see.

i can hear the music with my eyes

layers upon layers are no surprise.

by claire druga