Reading reflection-150 words

Word-Mechanisation

The Machine in Architecture Thinking is mainly drawing on the relation of machine and architecture around the industrial revolution period and how they influent and interact each other. It is obvious that the word Machine plays a crucial part in such context, because the machine not only brings new idea to the designers but also changes the way of designing buildings and structures or other stuff. For example, Galileo and his studies mainly focused on construction in the arsenal of Venice around that period, and the Due Nue Scienze pointed out, this new way of thinking shaped and changed the thinking of architects for years (Lefaivre & Tzonis, 1985). 

Another typical sample was, the construction elements such as pillars, cantilevers, and architraves were transferred from the initial observations made by Galileo on machines.  Thus, gradually, “the complete building fabric was seen in analogy with machine” (Lefaivre & Tzonis, 1985). Recording to these evidences, it is easy to know the concepts of machine and architecture are gradually combined together, eventually can get a term: mechanisation building. Maybe the high-technology at present is also extended from those ideas, alternatively, those ideas, innovations and the way of design buildings are inspirited by the relation of machine and architecture.

Reference list:

Lefaivre, L & Tzonis, A 1985, The Mechine in Architectural Thinking, Bertelsmann Press, Berlin.