Architecture Group N
Architecture Highlights: A GBD Microsite
“Architecture is a way of thinking about the world very similar in structure to writing a book, since both disciplines represent the same field and domain.”
Rem Koolhaas
Above: A group of facades. Left: An arcade at the base of a composition with the columns determining the divisioning of the facade, producing a vertical note. Top left: A horizontal mass with a circular colonnade above, supporting a smaller domed circular colonnade. Top right: Colonnade composition in which the mass is conflicting with the vertical note of ornamental motives. Bottom left: End salients with an order, flanking a mass with this order at a higher central spire. Bottom right: A composition with end towers and a greater central one.
Arcade:
A succession of contiguous arches, with each arch supported by a colonnade of columns or piers.
Colonnade:
a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, or part of a building.
Facade:
From the French façade which means “frontage” or “face”.
