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2014Rem’s Fundamental Thinking
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Rem Koolhaas…..how does a building go together?
‘Well, it has numerous parts to it’….and these parts have changed over time.
Bringing the methods of design and construction down to its simplest forms in terms that people with no Architectural or building knowledge can understand.
It is a massive exhibition, exhaustive and details, but simple.
My favourite rooms, ‘Door’ and ‘Ceiling’ and ‘Window’. The chronology of how each of these elements has been used in building and has evolved…
ie:
A door has always been a threshold and a barrier, a means of security. Once it was a portcullis, then an opening in a forts walls, now this threshold is a metal detector at the airport.
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Approaching the Fundamentals of Architecture
![Window manufacturing sure has changed](https://alatreilleprd.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/LDP095_7424.jpg)
Window manufacturing sure has changed
![A history lesson](https://alatreilleprd.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/LDP095_7427.jpg)
A history lesson
![Humans always provide direction...](https://alatreilleprd.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/LDP095_7457.jpg)
Humans always provide direction…
![...to another corridor!](https://alatreilleprd.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/LDP095_7459.jpg)
…to another corridor!
![Multiple facades to keep the rain off.](https://alatreilleprd.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/LDP095_7466.jpg)
Multiple facades to keep the rain off.
![Layers!](https://alatreilleprd.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/LDP095_7473.jpg)
Layers!
![The door as a method of security](https://alatreilleprd.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/LDP095_7480.jpg)
The door as a method of security
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Representing Architecture!
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Corb’s Maison Dom Ino as a scale model. Modernity as scale?