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Top Left): The Vitruvian Triad

Top Left): The Vitruvian Triad

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This paper looks into conventional teaching practices and intends to generate a new approach towards the teaching of Building Construction in architecture schools. With the fast pace of the current world and changing technology, conventional teaching practices that are largely based on information assimilation have ceased to serve us adequately. Th...

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... can, thus, be said that this subject, i.e., Construction Technology & Materials, has a definite relationship with aesthetics, function as well as structural stability. As Vitruvius stated in his Vitruvian Triad (Fig.1), Firmitas (Structural Stability), Utilitas (Practical Function) and Venustas (Aesthetics) are equal attributes of design. ...

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