Appearance and Reality?
The Allegory of the Cave, Plato,presents, in brief form, most of Plato's major philosophical assumptions: his belief that the world revealed by our senses is not the real world but only a poor copy of it, and that the real world can only be apprehended
Looking Beyond the Structure
Chapter Two – What are Appearance and Reality
Example given – Parthenon “column isn’t straight”
“From where you are standing the column isn’t straight. People believe what they see – and this is not always how things are. Looking at an object from different angles will appear different, this is called perspective.
Perspective distorts – example entasis
VItriuvius, Palladio
Representation – (plans, sections, orth) capture only partial aspects of reality
*Bertrand Russell’s – essay appearance and Reality – “The Problems of Philosophy”
In Architecture and Interior Design the Architects need to decide how the design will look to the client. Success of project depends upon how effectively the designer communicates how the client will experience its spaces.
Appearance and reality have to do with the more philosophical issues regarding the problem of knowledge.
Designers deal with this problem everyday of appearance and reality.
The architect uses drawings (representation) mock-ups and renderings as ways to describe to my client how they will experience the spaces I design for them.
Object depends upon its representation (tools-software). Becomes a fundamental problem how one is to adequately communicate how someone will experience a space.
Bertrand Russell – table – we can’t be sure a table has a single uniform color, texture, we can’t say a table has either a color texture inherent to it. (sense-data)
The experience of object depends on the person who experiences it. How can we guarantee our clients will see, smell, feel and hear our design in the way we suggest it.
Each spectator experiences an object differently
*Plata – the Allegory of the Cave
We can begin to think
Looking Beyond the Structure
Chapter Two – What are Appearance and Reality
Example given – Parthenon “column isn’t straight”
“From where you are standing the column isn’t straight. People believe what they see – and this is not always how things are. Looking at an object from different angles will appear different, this is called perspective.
Perspective distorts – example entasis
VItriuvius, Palladio
Representation – (plans, sections, orth) capture only partial aspects of reality
*Bertrand Russell’s – essay appearance and Reality – “The Problems of Philosophy”
In Architecture and Interior Design the Architects need to decide how the design will look to the client. Success of project depends upon how effectively the designer communicates how the client will experience its spaces.
Appearance and reality have to do with the more philosophical issues regarding the problem of knowledge.
Designers deal with this problem everyday of appearance and reality.
The architect uses drawings (representation) mock-ups and renderings as ways to describe to my client how they will experience the spaces I design for them.
Object depends upon its representation (tools-software). Becomes a fundamental problem how one is to adequately communicate how someone will experience a space.
Bertrand Russell – table – we can’t be sure a table has a single uniform color, texture, we can’t say a table has either a color texture inherent to it. (sense-data)
The experience of object depends on the person who experiences it. How can we guarantee our clients will see, smell, feel and hear our design in the way we suggest it.
Each spectator experiences an object differently
*Plata – the Allegory of the Cave
We can begin to think