P6 Other Project Events

MATH IN ARCHITECTURE
- interview with an architect, research about Maths
and shapes of buildings
- analysing multiform architectural shapes in the
town where students live
"I’m an architect" - designing a 3D model of a
building
- finding an instrument builder (online or in person),
listening to music instruments of a specific shape
- students who traveled to the exchange mobility in
Lithuania will write a short text about their
experiences and present the activities they
participated in to their school MA(R)TH team

https://youtu.be/iG_1S_wbJM0

a part of the interview of architect  mr. Zivas that took part on line due Covid19 essues

Amalia:

1.            Which was the most difficult project you had to deal with?

2.            Do you believe that architecture has played an important role in civilization?

3.            What degree of difficulty do you assign to the profession of the architects?

Answers

1.       The internal arrangement of my own house. I live in an old house at Corfu’s historic centre, so I had to arrange it for today’s needs and ways of life. The operation proved to be quite difficult. A couple of friends of mine that live in Rome, both architects, told me after their self-planned house renovation was finished, that they rather ought to have engaged another architect for their renovation plans – being not 100% able to understand what exactly were their own needs.

2.       Definitely. Good architecture shapes public spaces of interest, boththe recent andthe historic ones, which reflect our own civilization. By living in a beautiful city we fulfill not only functional needs, but also cultural ones. Take for example the old centre of Corfu, a city with a very specific character and identity. When you walk in the new periphery of the same city, you have a drastically different feeling with regard to cultural values.

3.       High, if one opts for good quality results.

 

Spyridoula:

1.            Why did you choose to study architecture?

2.            Which abilities and traits are needed in order to become an architect?

3.            Except from math with what else do you think architecture is related to?

Answers

1.       This is easy to answer. My father was an architect, and as I was growing up in our apartment in Athens I used to come in touch everyday with his activity, as he had transformed part of the apartment to a studio. All this architectural activity seemed very fascinating to me - the people he worked with, the drawings, the building models etc. – so I followed suit.

2.       Creative abilities on one hand, just the way a sculptor or a painter creates his/her own work, and specific technical knowledge related to various fields on the other. You have to be able to create spaces that elevate the users’ mood, while on the other hand they allow for comfort and guarantee functionality.

3.       As I referred to the previous answer, an architect has two sides, both very important for what concerns the quality of the final outcome. The creative, artistic part is crucial for what concerns architecture’s cultural importance – so history of art, painting and sculpture are included in the studies. Apart from this, the architect has to be able to understand mathematics and physics, characteristics and behaviour of building materials, the planning of a building’s technical parts –heating and cooling, water and electricity etc. Architecture is a particularly multi-faceted field.