Key takeaways from the reading:

>There is an inherent connection or 'hyphen' between the architect's chosen forms of representation, albeit scale models, digital graphics, animation, etc and the interpreted built form that comes of it.

>The key to architecture is on defining the depth to which a project will be understood.

>A building's symbolism is a complex dimension derived from each individual's opinion, culture, background, and interpretation of its depth.

>Architecture is a manifestation of a formal order that reflects the depth of our human condition.

>The phenomenon of the visual dimension permits one to participate in culture form a prescribed 'distance.'  It is this personable, variable separation that generates the notion of 'space,' which is the raw material that the architect manipulates to bring about experience.

>Experience does not always coincide with vision.

>The eye is an active participant in the dialogue of space and its interpretation.

>Geometric order identifies with human action and in brought to a new level through drawing.

Definitions to words that I didn't know were words:

Gnoseology: The philosophy of knowledge and the human faculties for learning

Extromission: Not permitting entry  [Antonym of Intromission: The act or process of introduction or admission]


Eurythmy: Harmony of proportion in architecture  OR  A system of rhythmical body movements performed to a recitation of verse or prose

Quadrivium: The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music

Sublunar: Of this world, earthly 


Supralunar: Beyond the moon  OR  Not of this world  OR  Very lofty