Building tricks we found in Ireland- Things we should do here today.
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- čas přidán 17. 10. 2023
- Brent shows us a house in Ireland and examples of buildings in Ireland that help us build better today. Come check out these inspirational design ideas.
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I was in college when Calder Loth came to Hampden-Sydney College and gave a lecture on the orders of architecture. I appreciated that he said architecture, like English, is a language. It can have typos, or it can speak beauty. His talk excited me; your videos excite me. I love, also, that in the postmodern age, you're pointing, even in the building of homes, to objective truth. I've heard you say we should "build honest homes," implying that there's the possibility for dishonest homes. Truth, goodness, and beauty (the three transcendentals) apply to all aspects of life. I teach my students that beauty is not in the eye of the beholder. In order for it to be transcendent, beauty must, by definition, reside outside of myself. Instead, preference lies in the eye of the beholder. Videos like yours remind us that we need to align our preferences to appreciate beauty; not redefine beauty to suit our preferences. Keep up the good work.
Amen! Well said. Thanks for teaching these truths.
I agree, Good design is timeless no matter what style it embraces.
In the book, "The Old Way of Seeing" by Jonathan Hale, the concepts you describe are gone into fine detail. It explains "why" an 18th century Colonial house looks more pleasing than a contemporary copy of a Colonial-style house. It's all because period builders kept these mathematical proportions in guidebooks and followed them.
Yes, that was a foundational book for me. Thanks.
I'm convinced! Perhaps juxtaposing some of these examples with modern examples of poor design that don't use these principles would convince others. Anyway, thanks for another great episode!
Great point! Thanks.
Love the geometry.
Thanks, me too.
The doors on my cabinets from the 1918, in the midwestern U.S. I found phi (1.618) in the preportions on them as well. That's why I tried to keep the same ratio and pattern on all the new stuff I'm building for the kitchen.
Good work. Thanks.
Good class. Thanks. I’m old and retired. We were taught and used Fib’s ratio back in the day.
Good stuff! Thanks
The only thing missing from the video is WHY the golden rectangle is used. Many modernist architects use a system of organization. They make one up, sometimes for certain projects, sometimes for all their projects. And yet only rarely do people remark on the charm or beauty of those projects. But people constantly remark on the charm or beauty of a project organized on the golden section. It's because the ancients discovered a ratio that is inherently beautiful. The golden section is an inherently beautiful proportion.
True. Thanks.
Very cool
THanks.
I love the order
Me too!
Love the Fibonacci circle.
Me too.
I'm just an amateur homeowner, but I've used the Golden Ratio in some of my projects, mostly when doing cutouts in the door panels under my kitchen sink and in my porch sawn panels to figure out the proportion. I'm planning to install Craftsman style wainscoting in my DR as I restore my house and intend to use the GR when deciding how high to make it. But to calculate, I have to do it backwards and use my HS algebra!
Haha, good luck.
Great video! Have you thought of doing one on the rebuilding of Windsor Castle after the fire, and how they took a number of unused servant spaces next to St. George's Hall and repurposed them into grand new rooms? There are so few opportunities to alter an historic building and it would be interesting to see how they decided on the new layout. Also, you could feature some of the trades and craftspeople involved in the restoration.
Great suggestion! THanks.
Спасибо!
Thx, i think.
@@BrentHull according to Google translate he’s thanking you in Russian.
And you can apply the golden rectangle to modern design. Scale and proportion is so vitally important to good design in which a space feels right. So many new homes in America miss the mark. Frequently a rabbit warren of rooms and bits and pieces applied here and there creating a mishmash.
Agreed. Thx
Brent, I couldn't agree more, but how do we/ you convince those just concerned with money otherwise?
We build better and more beautifully and it should naturally attract buyers. Building more beautifully is the key. I believe.
When is your book coming out
Late next year. I turn it over to the publisher at the end of the year.
Wish I could get it before June.
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Thanks for a great video, but The diagram that you drew for a square and golden rectangle is a little misleading. The vertical line from the midpoint does not figure into it. The line, the radius, you want is from the midpoint to the opposite corner of the square. The golden rectangle is a shape that is clearly not a square but is also not "narrow" feeling either. That is a formal room, for a lobby etc. I would look at a room in terms of areas of circulation (usually towards the side), and how to maximize usable and flexible areas for furniture, that utilize the areas of circulation, light and walls in the best way. A formal lobby is a different matter than our houses, but you can use these proportions for sure! Thank you!
Do you drive your wife nuts when you go to Europe?
Basically when designing buildings, rooms, etc., if you want to incorporate the golden rectangle or ratio into the design, then lay it out using a 5/8 ratio.
Thanks and my wife is used to it by now. 😀
Agreed regarding the correct construction. BH's construction as shown leads to a rectangle of proportion 3:2 not (1+ root 5)/2:1
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Ok.
So beautiful. Then we decided to go modernist and postmodernist and we end up with houses so ugly even the Munsters wouldn’t live in them!!!!
Haha, true.
I know these theories from paintings but usually they are far fetched, usually painters and designers just used their eye and intuition. And the classical buildings that are most geometric can look a bit dull in my opinion. Good to know some of these rules, also good to know that many great buildings didn't use them.
THanks.
Brent, there is plenty of examples of harmony and proportions which have nothing to do with golden rectangle
Those, who believe in this religion find golden proportions everywhere 😂😂
Noted.