Sunday, January 25, 2009
People/Place/Occasion
When Aldo van Eyck talks about architecture as being either one style or another, do you agree with that statement? Or is it a better approach to include the past, present, and the future into what we design and not to relish too much on one part in particular, but to encompass all of them?
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in a way i think we already do encompass separate styles. We may not technically design something that looks like work from the past but embedded in our work is the solutions we have discovered to problems from the past. The present and future have the advantage of discovering those solutions to past mistakes and those solutions are deeply embedded in the designs that we create.
ReplyDeleteMaybe i avoided your question altogether or maybe im stuck between saying yes and no. So what im going to do is ask you a question.
Why would we get completely humiliated for using ... lets say a Corinthian column in a studio project?
Yes, I agree with your question and its validity. I think that although, the solutions from the past may be embedded into the built world today, the past is either something to be ignored altogether in certain cases, for example the classical and postmodern styles in architecture, or to be revered,like the colonial style houses which is something seen a lot in the south. I think what is being neglected is not the idea behind these movements in architecture (well, maybe the postmodern) but the appearance of the elements of these building types that is so appalling. I mean, you are right, why can't a Corinthian column be used in one of the many studio projects done in school today? I believe that it is the appearance of this column that says a lot about the completely exterior based architecture being built today. Not all architecture today, I don't think I can, or want to say that, but a lot of it is going on today. An architecture of the senses is what is needed in the built world, and that has been prevalent in architecture for thousand of years. Let's try not to focus so much on how the screens, skins, and facades look in our designs, and let's focus on the ideas and feelings that come with them being implemented into our projects and work.
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