"For without symmetry and proportion, no temple can have a regular plan," Vitruvius
I have not told this to you yet, but at school, geometry (in maths subject) was a topic I used to hate a lot. Part of it because I was not good at it, but also because I could not see the use of it and the relation to my daily life, as all we used to do was study formulas and apply them to squares and triangles drawn in a book.
If we stop for a moment and think about it, geometry is everywhere and so is very important to learn about it, but to achieve the learning, we have to attract our student´s attention and make them realize that geometry is not something that just appears in textbooks at school.
For this reason, I want to talk in this post how the use of geometry is crucial in our surroundings like buildings and all the architectural constructions.
The geometry in the architecture is formed since its beginnings, from the classic one to Greece and Rome. Within the context of classical architecture, there is an architectural project that affects the construction project, giving it the characteristics and the determined language, a historical style. This comprises a set of new elements defined by relating to each other and in a consistent way with harmony, unity and proportion to a unit according to the basic precepts of beauty.
Let´s start checking some important buildings that everybody knows.
From the simplicity of a circle, we can see that it can become a landmark of the city of London as it is the Big Ben.
Triangles are also in the architecture in the clearest way in the Egyptian pyramids.
And we can even see cylinders slightly leaning though.
As you can see, even the simplest shapes have been represented in buildings and monuments throughout the history. Therefore, if we started to show this to our students, their motivation could rise a bit. At the same time, we could find loads of geometric forms in ay building we can imagine as well as start working geometry with this examples.
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