7 Architecture Facts pt.26 | Lloyds, Brasilia, Niemeyer & Facade



This video is about aqueducts and their function to move water over large topographical gaps plus their varied remanning locations like France and Spain; the definition of a cantilever and how they are typically created and sized—the rule of thumb for a cantilever is 1/3rd unsupported and 2/3rds supported; obelisks and how they are defined—it is a tapering square or rectangular shape with a pyramidal for at the top; the term facade is interesting because it relates to both buildings and people—a person can put on a facade and so do buildings for various reasons; the German philosopher and physicist Gustav Fechner and his experiments regarding the golden rectangle and golden ratio—Fechner discovered that people prefer the shape of the golden rectangle to other rectangles; the Lloyds of London building and why it looks the way it does—it’s clad in stainless steel and the stairways and ducts are exposed on the exterior, similar to the Pompidou Center in Paris; the cathedral of Brasilia designed by Oscar Niemeyer—it’s piers weigh almost 200,000 pounds each.

This is a video series about facts in architecture. The 15 second videos featured in the series are created by Doug and posted every day on his Instagram account @dougpatt.

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