RHYTHM

Rhythm is an attribute of an object that is marked by a systematic recurrence of elements having recognizable relationships between them. In architecture the harmony, simplicity and the power of the rhythm are pretty important. Types of rhythm in buildings: - Repetition of shapes: windows, doors, columns, arch… - Repetition of dimensions: distance between the supports. - Repetition of differences - Rhythm of lines: based on repetition of wall planes and supports, and on alternations of closed and open views. Rhythms can be closed by changing the shapes of the units at the ends or by changing the size of the units at the ends. It can also be closed by adding to each end a strongly marked opposing rhythm.

 The spiral is one of the most rhythmical of forms, because of its combination of repeated curves around a focus and the continual progressive change in the radius of the curvature. In architecture the rhythm produce a variety of effects which contribute to create monumental structures.

 In exterior rhythms, the problem is in the rhythms of the masses themselves. Preferences in rhythm type have varied greatly in different architectural periods. The Romans love rhythms of a much freer and more plastic type. Gothic architects liked to establish many clearly defined and persistent rhythms in their ornaments.

Modern architecture varies in its rhythmical ideals from the most clear-cut and regular rhythms to those in which there is a search from such free and so-called natural rhythms that the rhythmical basis is almost entirely lost and the result appears.

This is the Partenon, it represents the roman architecture. In that time the rhythm has an important role because it helped to increase the symmetry of the space. In here we can see almost all the types of rhythm, the repetition of the shapes are present in the columns and the repetition of the dimensions is present in the distance between every column in there. Roman architects used to use the rhythm to design and that is something that we can appreciate in every monumental edification made by them