You are invited to join the Rocky Mountain Chapter for
Beauty Memory Unity: A Theory of Proportion in Design
Lecture & Continuing Education Class
with Steve Bass
Saturday October 30, 2021
10:00 am - 1:00 pm Zoom Webinar
Register HERE
$25 ICAA Members, $35 General, Free for Students
*Zoom link & information will be sent to attendees upon registration*
Architect Steve Bass presents a view of the proportional idea based in the ancient philosophical systems of Pythagoras, Plato and later Neo-Platonists. In this view number and geometry, the substance of proportion, are endowed with qualitative, harmonic, life-like properties. These ideas are linked to numerical and geometrical methods used to describe the elements of classical architecture in reference literature such as Vitruvius, Vignola and Palladio. A central theme of the class is the philosophical nature of beauty as a form of the good, beauty’s relation to proportion and its significance in classical art. Such a view of beauty not only fully justifies the study of the classical elements today but could even provide a pathway out of the alienation, anxiety and intentional ugliness of modernism. The class includes live demonstrations using proportional methods to draw classical archetypes such as a four-column portico, a Palladian facade, and others.
Steve Bass is an architect in practice since 1974. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Pratt Institute, 1970; a Master of Arts from the Royal College of Art, London, 1991, where he studied under the direction of Dr. Keith Critchlow; and was a participant in the initial Prince of Wales’s Summer Course in Architecture, 1990. Steve is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art in New York City where he teaches on the theme of proportion and geometry in design.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: the course will enable students to:
1. Understand the nature and importance of beauty in the context of Platonic and Pythagorean philosophy.
2. Understand number in a symbolic rather than mathematical sense and how this is related to ancient concepts of beauty.
3. Become aware of methods of application of proportion in architectural design.
4. Glimpse the historical process in which these ideas were lost and hear suggestions for how they might be restored.
2 AIA CES Learning Units | Elective are available for this course
*Must be present for entire class*
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