Showing posts with label thermal behavior. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thermal behavior. Show all posts

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Gropius and Perception

While watching the Architectures movie about the Bauhaus again, the narrator quotes Walter Gropius as saying this about the perception of the Bauhaus as a three-dimensional artifact: “You must walk around the building to understand its materiality and the function of its various elements.” Well and good, even if Gropius didn’t understand thermal behavior.