Architecture Group J
Architecture Highlights: A GBD Microsite
“As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknown.”
Norman Foster
Above, starting in upper left: 1. Painted medallions, arabesques and bands. 2. Examples with diamond shaped central panels and circular and rectangle outer panel. 3. Motives with a cruciform central panel and variously shaped side and border panels. 4. Examples of a star-shaped central motive with side paneling. 5. Border motives with square central panels subdivided. 6. Grouped panel compositions.
Arabesque:
A style of decoration characterized by intertwining plants and abstract curvilinear motifs.
Cruciform:
The plan of most medieval Gothic churches is in the form of the Latin cross or “cruciform.” This means the body of the building is made up of a long nave that runs on an East-West axis crossed with the transept, and then with the choir, chancel, or presbytery, all referred to as the aspe, extended beyond that.
Motive:
Structural or decorative designs and repeating patterns found in the construction of buildings.
