Architecture Renaissance

And yet by the late sixteenth century certain features had emerged to define alchemical laboratories as distinct spaces in the landscape of late Renaissance work and learning. Some of these features were architectural. Although it is easy to lose sight of them, certain practical considerations had to be taken into account in establishing an alchemical laboratory. Any workspace had to have a hearth or ventilation for multiple furnaces. The need to feed these fires made access to fuel a neces-... 

Pheasant (1986) reasons that it was only around 15 BCE that Vitmvius, a Roman architectural theorist, mentioned the body-part ratios that we are familiar with today. Vitruvius used antiquated units of measurement such as the cubit, which was said to be equal to six palms, or one and a half Roman feet . Vitruvius used this in his desire to develop a system of body-part ratios, to convey perfection in the human body. Renaissance architecture is also said to be of harmonious form, and in mathematical proportions based on the ideal human body measurements (Anon, 2014a). Articles (Anon, 2013a) on the human body and phi, and the golden ratio, further rationalises that the human body, for example, has five... 

Anon, 2014a. Architecture in Renaissance Architecture (Online). http //en.Wikipedia.(jrg/wiki/ Renaissancearchiture (accessed 13.02.14.). 

The dome of St Peter s, completed in 1624 to the designs of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1495-1564), is a product of Gothic practice fully infiltrated by Renaissance ideals. Directly comparable In size to the crossing of Florence cathedral, the design no longer allowed construction rationale to precede architectural effect (figure 5.3). The shell s... 

Lane, Venetian Ships and Shipbuilders of the Renaissance, 1992. p. 64. The technical renaissance of the early sixteenth century gave Venetians enough confidence to reform their naval architecture. 

With a philosophy based on aesthetics, place, and history, Ruskin appeals to a moral architecture, encouraging builders to reject the techniques discovered in the Renaissance and developed in the Industrial Revolution and to embrace a time when the best buildings were constructed—the medieval Gothic cathedrals of England and Venice. In his later book, The Stones of Venice (1851-1853), Ruskin describes the elements of the Gothic that became foundational for the kind of architecture he proposes, and he provides many examples to illustrate. He points out the three virtues of a building (1) That it act well, (2) That it speak well, and (3) That it look well (Ruskin, 1885, vol. 1, ch. 2, sec. 1). 

The book I called The Seven Lamps was to show that certain right states of temper and moral feeling were the magic powers by which all good architecture, without exception, had been produced. The Stones of Venice had, from beginning to end, no other aim than to show that the Gothic architecture of Venice had arisen out of, and indicated in all its features, a state of pure national faith, and of domestic virtue and that its Renaissance architectme had arisen out of, and in all its features indicated, a state of concealed national infidelity, and of domestic corruption. (Ruskin, 1866, p. 53)... 

Nowadays, the PDC seems to he experiencing a certain renaissance as it might enable the fractionation of polymers with the same chemistry hut differing in the molecular architecture. In this case, the difference in solubility, that is, of branched or star-shaped material in comparison to linear chains, is used to archive a separation as schematically depicted in Figure 16. 

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