Notebook III - School of Architecture - The Chinese University of ...

Work
Learn
Worship
Perform
Travel
Exchange
28 Much of human life is spent in working. Much Learning as one of the main human activities Worship is a fundamental aspect of human Performance is an integral part of human Movement – physically moving from one place Exchange is the predominant mode of
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of human thought is preoccupied with work. has been the focus of a major part of human life. The places of worship, when not limited gathering, communication, and social action. to another – is an abstract human activity social contact in the human community.
Much of human history is the record of working
civilization, has led to the development of a to the individual, have had much in common Seen this way, a place of performance is a pervasive through many functions. Often it The market place and the basilica share
conditions. Much of architecture deals with distinct line of social institutions, and has occu-
to other places of gathering and performance. place of gathering with more or less specific is difficult to distinguish from the content of much in the early social activities and
places of work. Projects for places for working
pied a distinct section of architectural history. Despite many forms and doctrines, the archi-
requirements. But, like social activity, the form movement and it seems to be the life force of endure to our time in the shape of many
serve two aims. In one way, they serve as Despite the extensive development of their tecture of worship in all cultures has several of the place and of the building giving place public places relating in an intricate way with public places. The hawkers, the street
occasions for the study of this major aspect of many forms, the place of the individual student common underlying characteristics, even to the performance seems to come as much the particular function they seem to perform, vendors, the shopkeepers, and the shopping
human life: its history, its influence in human remains central to all such institutions. while it responds to important symbolic and from the gathering and its symbolic implications
such as places of arrival and departure, and
centers have long been the hub of
attitudes, its impact on other aspects of culture,
doctrinal differences. The history of the archi-
as from its functional requirements. It promenades.
social activity and represent more than the
etc. In another way they serve to bring
tecture of worship responds also to ceremony is expected that the design of places of per-
material they offer for sale. In subtle ways
all such study into focus as occasions for the
and ritual. In some way it celebrates universal formance would offer an occasion for studies
they act as training posts, as playgrounds,
study and practice of design.
existence by placing the human being in the at a fundamental level of performance as a
as places of social gathering, and as various
presence of timeless and constant natural elements:
part of human civilizing act as well as an exer-
parts of a collective forum accommodating
light, earth, water, and air. Yet the essencise
in design with functional requirements.
and embodying urban life. They accommo-
tial condition of worship remains solitude.
date a way of conducting public life.