A Timeless Guide to Architecture: 101 Tips for Archaeologists
A Three-day Online Seminar with Clairy Palyvou
November 10, 15, and 17, 12 pm ET/7 pm in Greece
The seminar aims at exploring some universal and timeless rules that guide architectural creation and provide archeologists with practical tools that will help them understand (and decode) the process of building. We will explore the difficult task of giving meaning to the fragmentary architectural data of the remote past, with emphasis on the Aegean Bronze Age. The 101 tips refer to common topics, queries, insights, and misunderstandings related to the practice of architecture as they appear in the field of archaeology.
Please register for this seminar using the following link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudeqprzssGNfC_ErjfqKStwAh_rgljcsr
1st SESSION – 10 November
Architecture: definitions and means of communication
“Must a name mean something?”
Archaeological drawings: before, during, after excavation
Living among ruins
Managing absence: is it really missing or was it never there?
The 3 dimensions of our being
The many ways to orientate ourselves
Celebrating gravity
The Vertical and the Horizontal
2nd SESSION -15 November
Taming the land
The path
Beware of slopes
Terraces and retaining walls
Structural systems and Building Materials
Archetypes in nature: the mountain, the cave, the tree
Building with stone, wood and clay
Ergonomic norms: the human body measure of all
Building components: Boundaries
The ‘talking’ floor
The inhabited roof
Skylines: borders of materiality, thresholds to heaven
3rd SESSION – 17 November
Building components: Connectors
Circulatory patterns: beware of the labyrinth
The Minoan genius: the pier-and-opening partition
The corridor: the multiple socket of circulatory systems
Windows: the eyes of the building
Stairs like doors
Life is outdoors …or is it semi-outdoors?
Hazards
Standing buildings are the norm, failures the exception
Hazards, natural and manmade
Seismic activity: how does it affect the buildings?
Function
The elusive godmother of architecture