Rhythm


 * Rhythm**


 * RHYTHM TEXT NOTE TAKING**

Rhythm in visual arts is an attribute of any object that is marked by a systematic recurrence of elements having recognizable relationships between them. In Architecture, much of the effects of a building will depend on the harmony, the simplicity, and the power of these rhythmical relationships

There are two types of rhythm, which can be used for any art manifestation, in our case architecture. First, the repetition of shapes. For example, a combination of materials used in the same facade, organized in different shapes, which can vary in size without affecting the general perception.

Second, one could use a rhythm with dimensions, such as the separation between columns, windows, doors or even plants. Even if we use different shapes such a a rhythm with circular and rectangular columns, with the same spacing between them.

A third type of rhythm, could happen when a series of elements is organized considering their differences. For example, the Golden Section that architects such as Le Corbusier used in its projects, is based in a number which multiplied by any other dimension can be used to create different shapes with an inner organization.


 * Modern architecture,** like modern music, varies in its rhythmical ideals from the most clear-cut and regular rhythms to those in which there is a search from such free and so-called natural rhythms that the rhythmical basis is almost entirely lost and the result appears, to many people, amorphous and without meaning.




 * STYLE: Greco-Romanian or Classical**

In the present picture of the Parthenon, rhythm is expressed and achieved in the repetition of columns of the same classical order. Even if at plain sight it may look the separation between them is the same, it isn´t so. The unknown architect of this masterpiece, used a series of numbers to place specifically each columns in the space, so if the spectator looked the building from different angles, it may look as if they had the same distance between them, defying the effect of the perspective, which affects the perception of dimensions of the human eye. Even so, harmony is achieved, and the complex is perceived as a whole, by its symmetry and the repetition of elements in the top facade and proportions of the different shapes.

