Week 3- Classical Civilizations

 

 Classical Civilizations

This week we learned about two of the Classical Civilizations, Greece and Rome. In the Greece section of the reading, we learned a lot about the temples and their design. In the Roman part, we learned about many different things such as artifacts found, people's homes, shops, and places of worship.

Greece

The Greek Civilization what the bringing of Western ideas and culture. They were masters of philosophy, science, fine arts, geography, medicine, legal systems, and astronomy. Because of all of these things Greek architecture and design were grand and beautiful. It is still studied today.

Greek Temple 

Modern Chruch

The Greek Temple was grand and had many columns and was crafted beautifully. Modern churches tend to have less thought put into the beauty of the church and more about its function. There are some similarities. Modern churches tend to use columns to make them feel more grand and they all point up to heaven which is similar to the Greek temples.

Greek Pots

Modern Pots

These pots have very similar shapes but they are also very different. Greeks desecrated their pots with drawings and paintings to make them more interesting. Our modern-day pots are as minimalist as possible and that is what is considered to be beautiful. 

Rome 

Roman Oil lamp

Modern Lamps

The oil lamp was a very common way of creating light at that time. Now we have electricity and that is the way we create light. That completely changed the way our lamps work. So there are not a lot of similarities between the lams other than there is a base that the light comes out of. 

Roman food store

Modern fast-food restaurants 

I thought this was super interesting. These shops were basically Roman fast-food restaurants. The layout of them is actually pretty similar. there is a front desk where the food is seen and bought and there is a back room where all the food is prepared. 

One Step Further

Daniel Arsham:

His websites says that "Daniel Arsham’s uchronic aesthetics revolves around his concept of fictional archaeology. Working in sculpture, architecture, drawing and film, he creates and crystallizes ambiguous in-between spaces or situations, and further stages what he refers to as future relics of the present. They are eroded casts of modern artifacts and contemporary human figures, which he expertly makes out of some geological material such as sand, selenite or volcanic ash for them to appear as if they had just been unearthed after being buried for ages. Always iconic, most of the objects that he turns into stone refer to the late 20th century or millennial era, when technological obsolescence unprecedentedly accelerated along with the digital dematerialization of our world. While the present, the future and the past poetically collide in his haunted yet playful visions between romanticism and pop art, Daniel Arsham also experiments with the timelessness of certain symbols and gestures across cultures." Here are some of his works: