i decide to write about our mid-reviews.
but something striking that i saw in almost everyone's architectures (including mine) is the unwillingness to ornament their designs, and our fear to move to the organic. we have moved to a very ordered, geometric, minimalist idea of form in our section. not to say that it is bad all of the time, but after sitting through 4 hours of reviews today, i saw enough straight lines in our projects that i could have gone crazy. even abbey had her "nazi bunker". if i can remember clearly, only yin fei **(hope im spelling it right) took a leap of faith and did circles. but we are so used to the comfort with solid geometry that we don't even wish to stray beyond that.
there's a young duo of architects that are from notre dame that are now based out of new york that have taken the idea of ornament and have utilized that to the fullest potential. (and they love cnc machines like crazy too) theyre called gage / clemenceau and i'd have to say, their stuff is pretty thought provoking.
i'll link you to their website.
http://www.gageclemenceau.com/
maybe we should discuss this in class. it seems that we've been influenced along our studio semesters not to use curves or that there is no need to use curves in our projects. i could be misunderstanding the idea in which we shouldn't use curves in our representations of models, but i think it is another tool we could use. some of the precedents we've been looking at and of which are commonly referred to in this school such as zaha hadid, and toyo ito use organic shapes in what seems very much to be an expression of their ideas. i heard once in a review that a project looked to familiar. i think that stacking boxes without any further thought isn't the way to go, and playing with form and volume to achieve a certain experience is necessary. but it all has to have a reason. as far as decoration, take a look at wrights freeman house, ennis house, or a more contemporary steven holl's work in perforated decoration. they're all for the purpose of playing with light. thanks for the link
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