Rhythm

=Rhythm=

====Rhythm in visual arts is an attribute of any object that is marked by a systematic recurrence of elements having recognizable relationships between them. In Architecture, much of the effects of a building will depend on the harmony, the simplicity, and the power of these rhythmical relationships.====

Types of rhythm

 * ====The repetition of shapes: windows, doors, columns, wall areas, arches, and the like. Sp[[image:rhythm.jpg width="348" height="266" align="right"]]acing can vary without destroying rhythmical character.====
 * ==== Repetition of dimensions, such as the dimensions between supports or those of bay spacing. The units may vary in size or shape and rhythm will still remain.====
 * ====Repetition of differences. In this rhythmical series, the ascending and descending progressions are built up from small to large and to small again.====
 * ====The rhythm of lines. Such rhythms can be merely systematic variations of linear lengths or curvatures.====

Rhythms may be indefinite and open or definite and closed.

 * ====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.====

Of more importance to the architect are the larger rhythms of interior spaces. In complex buildings, the changing and progressive rhythm of shapes, with alternations of

 * ====open and closed====
 * ====big and little====
 * ====wide and narrow====

Create an ordered variety of effect which contributes to the power of great and monumental structures.
Rhythm in different architectural styles

We are in front of a gothic cathedral, in it specifically; there are series of independent rhythms. In the tower on the left, windows are repeated by high levels, and in addiction the outstanding supports have the same distance among themselves, also the spires have guidelines on the ornaments that make a radial rhythm around it. The tower on the right is the same that the previous but starts to change in the spire, where the openings are larger but still with a rhythm that surrounds the entire spire. And in the central nave, the arches of the first level have a repetition that is repeated at the top immediately on them, which has a rhythm nNn horizontally but in vertically reading is nnNNnn

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