Rhythm

__**Rhythm:**__

Rhythm is the repetition and relationship between elements. In Architecture, much of the effects of a building will depend on the harmony, the simplicity, and the power of these rhythmical relationships. With the repetition of shapes, dimensions, differences and lines we can create a rhythm in architecture. It can be indefinite and open or definite and closed. When a rhythm is open the beginning and the end in the repetition is the same. When it is definite or close, the repetition presents a beginning and an end. In architecture the interior and exterior spaces must have rhythms. In interior spaces the rhythm is important. It appears with the changing and progressive rhythm of shapes, alternations of open and closed, big and little. In exterior rhythms, the problem is in the rhythms of the masses themselves.

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Decription:

1)Repetition of Shapes 2)Curve lines 3)repetition of colors

__Definitions:__

Masses:

Descriptors for features that are not separable components.



Tight:

closely constrained.



Narrow:

Limited in size or scope.



__Rhythm in the Guggenhei____m Museum__ by architect: Frank Gehry



In this image of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao it is very obvious the presence of rhythm. This characteristic is achieved by a harmonic combination of the types of rhythm. We can see the architect marked rhythmical character based on repetitions of wall planes, and on alternations of closed and open views. The architect also used the rhythm of lines. He used an architectural element, the curve, and made a merely systematic variation to accomplish rhythm with curvatures lines.