March 2009

Good Millwork: Traditional Architectural Molding, originally uploaded by Good Millwork.
Dramatizing Gravity
We’ve observed previously that gravity is a primary contributor to the presence of stress inside an architectural construction. But gravity implies something else about the classical building: namely, the existence of an up and a down. Organic nature acknowledges gravity’s effect by detailing most living [...]

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Good Millwork: Traditional Architectural Moldings, originally uploaded by Good Millwork.
The Big-Foot Theory of Moldings
So far, we’ve concentrated on the geometry of moldings. There is another aspect of moldings that I call “The Big Foot Effect.” According to that theory, instead of merely seeing moldings as abstract geometric shapes, one might equally understand them as tools [...]

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Good Millwork: Classical Architectural Moldings, originally uploaded by Good Millwork.
When commencing study of the classical elements, it is logical to begin with moldings. Moldings are the smallest physical units — the atoms, as it were — of classical architecture, and so are easier to understand at first than the larger, more complex members formed from [...]

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