Kindergarten Chats - Architecture
This reading has introduced me to various factors in architecture regarding what it represents and should be in society through Louis Sullivan’s words.
A Terminal Station: • The Masculine Implies forceful, direct, clear and straightforward,
• The Feminine Implies intuitive sympathy, suavity, grace, and qualities of soothe, elevate, and refined.
• Should be easy to get in and out (efficiency)
• Outward aspect of the style takes on the ambulance of architecture.
I agree, a terminal station should be able to tell us what it is and from the outside, where are the entrances, exists, etc... This is a public figure and needs to be clear.
The Key:
• Each building’s external aspect represents character and it’s up to us to unlock the architecture behind the building.
• The Architect represents or misrepresents society at large; what his plain duty is, if any what society has demanded and expect.
• There is a particular trust between the society and the Architects.
• Whichever way our architecture goes, so will our country go
However the architecture is rotten to the core, according to Sullivan, the illusion of American architecture. I agree how the public in large is not heavily involved in how their architecture is designed, thus we are putting trust on architect’s hands.
Nature:
• Is visible, objective forms, contains aspects of beauty of form and color.
• The elements of earth and air shaped by delicate hand of time
• A creative impulse of origin
In conclusion, buildings are made of materials, but the elements of the earth are removed from the matrix of nature, and reorganized and reshaped by force; mechanical, muscular, mental, emotional, moral, and spiritual.
Character:
• Not confined to the individual, it is also defined by the municipality, the nation, current trends, and qualities that we the people are demanding in the marketplace.
Values:
• We recognize values in medals, diplomas, or monuments.
• Brings a sense of
A Terminal Station: • The Masculine Implies forceful, direct, clear and straightforward,
• The Feminine Implies intuitive sympathy, suavity, grace, and qualities of soothe, elevate, and refined.
• Should be easy to get in and out (efficiency)
• Outward aspect of the style takes on the ambulance of architecture.
I agree, a terminal station should be able to tell us what it is and from the outside, where are the entrances, exists, etc... This is a public figure and needs to be clear.
The Key:
• Each building’s external aspect represents character and it’s up to us to unlock the architecture behind the building.
• The Architect represents or misrepresents society at large; what his plain duty is, if any what society has demanded and expect.
• There is a particular trust between the society and the Architects.
• Whichever way our architecture goes, so will our country go
However the architecture is rotten to the core, according to Sullivan, the illusion of American architecture. I agree how the public in large is not heavily involved in how their architecture is designed, thus we are putting trust on architect’s hands.
Nature:
• Is visible, objective forms, contains aspects of beauty of form and color.
• The elements of earth and air shaped by delicate hand of time
• A creative impulse of origin
In conclusion, buildings are made of materials, but the elements of the earth are removed from the matrix of nature, and reorganized and reshaped by force; mechanical, muscular, mental, emotional, moral, and spiritual.
Character:
• Not confined to the individual, it is also defined by the municipality, the nation, current trends, and qualities that we the people are demanding in the marketplace.
Values:
• We recognize values in medals, diplomas, or monuments.
• Brings a sense of