Shadowy
Deep
Blurred
Curved
INTUITIVE
After moving our chairs into circle formation (I like being able to put a face to a voice) we began the class by drawing vignettes of features of classmates' faces. I guess what we actually had to do was to capture the essence of the features with lines instead of drawing outlines or trying to draw representational images. This was definitely easier said than done.
Chapter 1 - Basic Observations
- Harmony: time/context; looking towards the future; not revisiting the past (except for inspiration)
- Architecture as music - proportion (horizontals to verticals), flow, rhythm, acoustics
- Concept of falsity/falsehood
- EXPERIMENTATION
- Utility: function, purpose, architecture vs sculpture, questioning how space will be utilized
- Architecture as functional art
- ORGANIZATION
All those things make up part of the experience of architecture. We then went into detail about certain topics:
- the relationships of the inanimate - our goal is to create experience, create texture, connect spaces
- reasons for looking to the past include: the past is comfortable, knowing what has worked and what hasn't
- we can challenge conventions with experimentation
- analyzing relationships between soft and hard surfaces - undulation, visual tactility, angularity
- understanding scale and proportion
- the disharmony between the column and the brick ground on page 26
- how objects in our lives inspire us to think about architecture
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