I'll heart all your responses because it creates a connection with the community! Thanks for the suggestion, I'll add it to the list!!

I’m very happy these are resonating with you. Cheers!

I was cheated. I never once heard of the nine square grid at U of Oregon School of Architecture. On the other hand, the results seem rather formulaic so perhaps it was deliberate.

Just listen to Mathew Broderick!

Yes I could have.

HIcks' definition of architecture, whatever it is, is arbitrarily precise. Like defining "religion" too exclude everything but the western monotheisms.

Thank you!

Next week!! Stay tuned.

Hi! I'm curious on what the difference is between an ID and an architect?

@@mikebuhayTV Interior Design or Interior Architecture is a small portion of Architecture. Architecture deals with both interior and exterior design, while ID only deals with interiors. Interior design however, isn't limited to houses and buildings only. We also do vehicle interiors: cars, planes, buses, campers, boats etc etc., Set production in TV and movies, space planning of offices and factories, Church, hospitals, schools-practically anything that is used or inhabited by humans. We make things ideal for people to live and work in spaces, making sure there's a smooth flow.of traffic and that people can move freely with little or less probability of injury so that means proper clearances, and so many other things, including handicap accessibility, and many many more.

Clearly it is born out of a desire for bilateral symmetry in two perpendicular axes around a central space.

And feng shui is dated hundreds years before Greek/Romans. "Eight Mansions" method in feng shui is even older than "Flying Star", and both are based on the 9 grid square

Hey! Thank you so much for commenting on the video! As a graduate of Princeton, I am well aware of your father. It must have been very unique growing up in that house. I would love to be able to see it one day.

It provides bilateral symmetry in two perpendicular axes around a central space. Palladio obviously considered this to be desirable since he made frequent use of it. He was followed by others who also thought it was pleasing.

Hey! Thanks for the heads up. We decided to make that server specific for the school I teach. Perhaps I'll open it back up or start a new one. Apologies for any confusion. I erased the link.

@@stewarthicks It's cool! I appreciate your content. It's not an exercise I did back in my first year, but it brings perspectives!

I hope that's not the takeaway. That's like saying vertebrates begin with rabbits and humans. Hopefully the analogy of 'Recapitulation Theory' helps to show how--by looking at different examples--one can discover a kind of mythical origin that we can only find through deduction. Palladio is only a later example where this "original zygote" of the ABCBA diagram can be seen, but architecture doesn't begin with Palladio.

@@stewarthicks 'Recapitulation Theory' is biological mythology that has been discredited. I think budyn1412's criticism is valid. This has nothing to do with the "origins" of architecture, not even a mythical origin like Adam and Eve. It's merely one among many possible starting points for the organization of space... a starting point that seems to have been used by Palladio, among others. But it is by no means a universal in any respect. It can't even be all that popular since this is the first I've heard of it. Clearly a far more primitive starting point is the two room house... a front room used for most public functions such as cooking, working and socializing and a back room used for more private functions such as storage. This got translated into ancient temple architecture where the front room was used by the priests to attend to the daily maintenance of the cult and the back room was typically the holy of holies where the god's statue resided in splendid isolation. The Greeks also used a two room temple design, but put the statue in the front room with the other cult objects and reserved the rear for the treasury. The Romans continued the tradition by building basilicas with a large room for the gathering of a crowd and a rear apse for the judge's use. In turn, the basilica design got translated into Christian churches with the crowd in the large room and the altar in the apse at the rear. This has far greater claim to being the actual "origin" of architecture due to its earlier examples and far more primitive conceptualization of space. If you try to go any simpler you end up with a single, undifferentiated space, and it's difficult to justify calling such a simple design "architecture."

Understood. It’s still useful as an analogy.

@@stewarthicks No. #1 Because it's wrong. Don't say, "Hey, I'm going to illustrate something I believe is good and helpful by comparing it to some old theory that has been proven to be wrong and unhelpful. #2 You wouldn't touch it with a 100 foot pole if you knew how many people that false theory angers.

This idea might be critiqued as being Architecture's version of Begging the Question.

Addendum: only because most people wrongly attribute deductive reasoning to what is actually Abductive reasoning

You don't think anyone might benefit from a retelling in visual format?