Asllan Nona

Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture explores fundamental questions concerning the practice of architecture and examines the potential of architecture. The essays in this collection explore architectural form and content in the hope of finding new and better alternatives to traditionally accepted practices. It collects essays exploring fundamental questions concerning the practice of architecture through its history and theories. As we near the end of the millennium , the time have come for us to attempt to differentiate between architecture  and building in terms other than those of eighteenth – century aesthetics- to reach beyond the exhausted philosophical distinction  between the good and the beautiful  and to articulate  the specific status of architecture as embodying wisdom while remaining  in the context of a thoroughly utilitarian ,constructed world – our technological world. CHORA (the Greek word for "space"), is devoted to exploring t...

Men were always looking for a place to live in, so first they found the ground where they should live. There are six main characteristics needed to be remembered by us, architects: The region,the seat,the compartition,the walling,the covering,the apertures These form a hierarchical order. Once you have found the region (the open space), you can determine the seat (the place where your house will be located). The compartition is dividing the whole platform into smaller platforms. The walling means that the house now take the form of a 3d composition as well as it helps into maintaining the system of the roof. The covering helps the building from external forces, just like the skin to our body. Lastly, the apertures are the outlets which are necessary for a house. But, we shouldn’t forget the principles of a good building: firmness, durability, stability, gracefulness and aesthetic aspect. Referring to the past,  as the climate has changed, the region also has some differen...

Everytime an architect starts to design a building and to bring it into life, there are some steps which are essential and need to be known: It starts with locational analysis (responsibility of town planners and geographers),  environmental control (specialist of building design), Judgment over matters of cost (quantity surveyor), interior design (skills of an artist).  One word is used for very different concepts such as functional architecture, data architecture, solution architecture or enterprise architecture. In addition, boundaries between architecture and design are unclear. Some say they are similar concepts. Others argue that they are complementary concepts with different levels of abstraction. To do so here are some ways generating 3 dimensional form: 1-Pragmatic 2-Iconic 3-Analogic 4-Canonic -Pragmatic design  Design is about making stuff, we make stuff to test our hypotheses. The word pragmatic itself says: dealing with things sensibly and realisti...

Recreation?? Have you ever heard this word? I think we all have, because our daily life is connected to the art of recreation, as a visual process. This process is linked mostly with the sense of vision; for example, you see a hand which is painting, but you associate it with a human, and the first impression you get is the man painting a picture. After you see the entire “panorama” you see that the man actually is a woman. Another person may see another thing and another detail. The “secret” is in the way how we perceive things, there is no such objective correct idea, only subjective impressions of it. We have dealt with different topics in this course and if I asked you: Do you remember the Opera House in Sydney Harbor? I guess you do. If you have the chance to lively see it, I bet the first thing which will draw the attention will be the shell like structure of the overall work. Why do we see this thing first? Because we are familiar to this now, we have a ba...