Found this fascinating post on one of the blogs I'm currently following:
One line in particular, strike me because I always intentionally function on when doing a design for client... but believe or felt like I am alone until came across it:
"....why can't we improve and educate, but also Dazzle!? ..." Here, read the whole article See what I see
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Your Simply Architecture.... cont.......#4
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After making the previous post "Simply Architecture" on how the different types of definitions on Architecture could arrived at, I went in search for examples of various definitions and I came across another insightful Architectural Blog that actually had list of definitions from famous Architects.
Below are some that I find most interesting of the lot which all are very contributing:
"I wrote some years back, architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living. And architecture is a prime instrument of making that change – because it has to do with building the environment they live in, and the relationships that exist in that environment." - LEBBEUS WOODS
"What is architecture really? It is taking our world view, how we exist, how we deal with each other in a civil society, and it concertizes it, it makes it permanent, It makes it evident. The social act and the aesthetic act comes together." - THOM MAYNE
"Architecture is a sensuous art, because it is perceived with the senses.
If you like a house or an inner space, perhaps a living room or a church, it is something you feel, not something you think. Of course, the mind comes into play too, as it is through experience that we understand how buildings work, and so there is a certain empiricism at work. But the most important thing is emotional understanding. This cannot always be rationalized or summoned at will. It is often just there." - PETER ZUMTOR
"Architecture is the most materially cumbersome and geographically fixed form of cultural expression. How can it represent a moving target, such as new media or other urgent cultural and social issues?" - DILLER & SCOFIDIO - "Architecture is everything technology is not: inert and geographically fixed. The best role for architecture, outside of smart design, is to be a supple shell for the continuous updating of the building's nervous system."
Below are some that I find most interesting of the lot which all are very contributing:
"I wrote some years back, architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living. And architecture is a prime instrument of making that change – because it has to do with building the environment they live in, and the relationships that exist in that environment." - LEBBEUS WOODS
"What is architecture really? It is taking our world view, how we exist, how we deal with each other in a civil society, and it concertizes it, it makes it permanent, It makes it evident. The social act and the aesthetic act comes together." - THOM MAYNE
"Architecture is a sensuous art, because it is perceived with the senses.
If you like a house or an inner space, perhaps a living room or a church, it is something you feel, not something you think. Of course, the mind comes into play too, as it is through experience that we understand how buildings work, and so there is a certain empiricism at work. But the most important thing is emotional understanding. This cannot always be rationalized or summoned at will. It is often just there." - PETER ZUMTOR
"Architecture is the most materially cumbersome and geographically fixed form of cultural expression. How can it represent a moving target, such as new media or other urgent cultural and social issues?" - DILLER & SCOFIDIO - "Architecture is everything technology is not: inert and geographically fixed. The best role for architecture, outside of smart design, is to be a supple shell for the continuous updating of the building's nervous system."
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Simply Architecture
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Architecture
As one thinks of the word Architecture, the first thing to surface is along the path of “building design”. There, the answer seems simple enough, but to the person looking to apprehend beyond to a more distinctive understanding would still uncertainly ask for more.
So what really is Architecture? ...
According to [Webster’s] definition: It is the art or science of planning and building structures and additionally, the style or method of building.
In analyzing this definition, we are aware of the technicalities related to any give field & its meticulous demands, so thereby accepting terms science, methods & styles used is relative. So that leaves us with Art, which by its nature is said to be undefined, but however, by definition is the skill to be applied in making beauty [Webster]. Nonetheless taking architecture definition word by word we proceed onto beauty which already we justify according to our own preference, even so it is “qualities that give pleasure to the senses or exalts ones mind” – Webster.
With all these involved it allows Architecture defined, as a bubble to be burst with our perspective of what it is, leading to different personalized definitions of those who have actually experienced it.
“So here goes one at this date: Architecture is the experience, whether mindful or not, that evokes the senses an individual encounters when they interact with the function of a building that is purposefully and systematically created to suit it’s environmental and aesthetical needs”
Overall, Architecture is the same… here in Jamaica and there in world, just individual outlooks which over time has created different standards and thereby dawning the classifications between good and bad architecture.
As one thinks of the word Architecture, the first thing to surface is along the path of “building design”. There, the answer seems simple enough, but to the person looking to apprehend beyond to a more distinctive understanding would still uncertainly ask for more.
So what really is Architecture? ...
According to [Webster’s] definition: It is the art or science of planning and building structures and additionally, the style or method of building.
In analyzing this definition, we are aware of the technicalities related to any give field & its meticulous demands, so thereby accepting terms science, methods & styles used is relative. So that leaves us with Art, which by its nature is said to be undefined, but however, by definition is the skill to be applied in making beauty [Webster]. Nonetheless taking architecture definition word by word we proceed onto beauty which already we justify according to our own preference, even so it is “qualities that give pleasure to the senses or exalts ones mind” – Webster.
With all these involved it allows Architecture defined, as a bubble to be burst with our perspective of what it is, leading to different personalized definitions of those who have actually experienced it.
“So here goes one at this date: Architecture is the experience, whether mindful or not, that evokes the senses an individual encounters when they interact with the function of a building that is purposefully and systematically created to suit it’s environmental and aesthetical needs”
Overall, Architecture is the same… here in Jamaica and there in world, just individual outlooks which over time has created different standards and thereby dawning the classifications between good and bad architecture.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
reBlog from Arc-IT-Studio-Architecture: Architectural Record Keeping
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I found this fascinating quote today:
You should read the whole article.
Feel free to suggest articles of designs that should get acknowledgement as good design should be outlined. Comments & scrutiny are appreciated, as with art being undefined & beauty being in the eyes of the beholder, we can discourse it.Arc-IT-Studio-Architecture, Architectural Record Keeping, Sep 2009
You should read the whole article.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
First Blog…Understanding Us.
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Arc-IT-Studio Architecture’s views on the world of design in Jamaica, along with its own imparting designs are in the eyes of a passionate student seeking understanding to provide the perfect architecture to the soul that matters
First order of business is establishing the upcoming company of Arc-IT-Studio Architecture in Portmore City and those significant sentiments on conceptualizing designs we intend to deliver to your clients & those seeking general knowledge of the Architecture here in Jamaica.
Hoping not to limit our outreach to just clients, we wish to extend our focus to anyone with an appreciation for Architecture. Additionally, taking this blog to a level where there is an overall network with other confreres is ultimately one of our striving goals.
Feel free to suggest articles of designs that should get acknowledgement as good design should be outlined. Comments & scrutiny are appreciated, as with art being undefined & beauty being in the eyes of the beholder, we can discourse it.
Let’s design a better Jamaica – Arc-IT-Studio Architecture
First order of business is establishing the upcoming company of Arc-IT-Studio Architecture in Portmore City and those significant sentiments on conceptualizing designs we intend to deliver to your clients & those seeking general knowledge of the Architecture here in Jamaica.
Hoping not to limit our outreach to just clients, we wish to extend our focus to anyone with an appreciation for Architecture. Additionally, taking this blog to a level where there is an overall network with other confreres is ultimately one of our striving goals.
Feel free to suggest articles of designs that should get acknowledgement as good design should be outlined. Comments & scrutiny are appreciated, as with art being undefined & beauty being in the eyes of the beholder, we can discourse it.
Let’s design a better Jamaica – Arc-IT-Studio Architecture
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