Lecture 1. Origins of Architectural Pleasure (建築美感源始)

Group Project Part-I: Apply refuge and prospect to decompose space in a few architectural examples.

References: (2) Grant Hildebrand, Origins of Architectural Pleasure, University of
California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1999. (ISBN 0-520-21505-2   720 H54 C.1)
Grant Hildebrand is Prof. of Architecture and History at Univ. of Washington, Seattle.
(3) Grant Hildebrand, Wright Space: Pattern and Meaning in Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses.


1. The Aesthetics of Survival
2. Finding a Good Home
  The refuge and the prospect in nature
3. Exploring
4. Categorizing and Differentiating

Play Part I of videotape on American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (105 min)
(Wright is to American architecture as Gershwin is to American music, or Whitman to American poetry)

Click here for the lecture in video (about 260MB)