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You are to be apprenticed to an Architect designing a Palatial
Estate, Cathedral, Hospital, University, Globe Theatre, place of
business, designing a town mall (marketplace)
Consider:
- Name of your guild? Philosophy of design? Terms and vocabulary unique
to your guild's work?
Who have been the innovators in your field of study? What has each contributed
of significant importance? Where did each master get his ideas? Any special
study that he did, place he visited, things he observed and applied to
what he is passing on to you? For what donations is your guild responsible
and why? What artwork has your guild been required to commission? What
should be kept secret and why?
What construction skills and techniques must you learn or know about? What
are the hazards of your work? Math: What mathematical 'news' is there that
will help you? Technology (tools) available? What innovative technology
can be built into your work or have you or others discovered? (14th to
17th century versions of 20th century technology? Is the older better?
In what ways?) Special features of your project that you must build into
your design? Technology needed? (You may have to do some inventing to complete
your project - but within the limits of the Renaissance.)
Sanitation: a concern in design? Particular problems you may run into with
your project? Building materials available from where? Special guilds for
them? Decorative art for your design? What other guild(s) will you need
to know about or use? In what way(s)?
What have you learned that 20th century architects and builders use today
as a result of ideas and techniques of the Renaissance ( or what the Renaissance
borrowed from earlier centuries)?
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