Rasmussen Questions And Answers

According to Danish architect, educator and writer Steen Eiler Rasmussen, the difference between architecture and sculpture is - architecture's utility What did Winston Churchill mean when he said, "We shape our buildings and in turn our buildings shape us"? - That the built environment has enormous influence on who we are and who we become as a person and as a community According to Rasmussen, the task of the architect is - to bring order and rela@on into human surroundings According to Rasmussen, - buildings should be ahead of their time, such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbo, Spain designed by Frank Gehry What does Rasmussen mean when he says, "architecture is indivisible" - that architecture must be experienced, because the whole (of architecture) is greater than the sum of its parts Facebook West in Menlo Park, CA, designed by Architect Frank Gehry in collaboration with Mark Zuckerberg, represents - a contemporary vision of an@-hierarchy and fluidity to foster free-form collaborative work According to Rasmussen, - there is no objectively correct idea of any things appearance and as such the act of observation is a creative process Gothic architecture is an expression of its - structure and construction A unique visual feature of Exeter Library, in Exeter, New Hampshire, is - the subtle way the exterior columns in the brick façade become smaller from the bottom of the building to the top Exeter Library demonstrates an example of a modern interpretation of - gothic architecture as structural art