English writer and famous critic Jonathan Swift from the eighteenth century
introduces us to one of his most famous works, Gulliver’s Travels. This book discusses
the English doctor Gulliver who works on long-distance traveling ships. In his life, the
main role was taken by a passion for traveling, so he experienced many adventurous
journeys. It is about the trips to the states of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa (including
the islands), and finally the country of horses, Houyhnhnm. In all four works and
adventures, Gulliver finds himself in environments very different from his homeland.
From an architectural point of view, the main features of this book are the different
dimensions and scales, mathematical proportions and geometric shapes, as well as the
close connection between man and place. All these adventures are discussed from these
architectural aspects. The main feature of the adventure in Lilliput is the world of elves
and their scale. In this setting, everything is created according to their proportional
system. So Gulliver is the giant. Unlike Lilliput, in the state of Brobdingnag,
everything is gigantic. It is a world where everything is enormous. In this place,
Gulliver is an elf. The third adventure is about the geometric world of Laputa. The
inhabitants of this place are obsessed with mathematical rules, and everything is part of
mathematics and music. In the other islands of this adventure, the architectural features
are imaginative. In the fourth adventure, Gulliver, unlike all the previous ones, finds
himself in an animal world where the main inhabitants are horses. Therefore, the unit
of measurement or modulus is horses.
Keywords: Adventure, Architecture, Balnibarbi, Brobdingnag, Dwarf, Forms,
Geometrical shapes, Giant, Glubbdubdrib, Gulliver, Houhnhnm, Interior
architecture, Jonathan Swift, Laputa, Lilliput, Luggnagg, Man-place relation,
Proportion, Ratio, Travel, Yahoos.
