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 16 Jun 2007 @ 22:35
Be Not Silent! More >
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 11 Dec 2006 @ 20:00
Dec 11, 2006
Canada
Noon
Monday
THE ARCHITECTURAL DIVIDE
I was asked to review a new book on architecture,
" A Theory of Architecture" by Nikos A. Salingaros
I felt it wasn't up to snuff but had potential.
I think I felt that because it seemed to lack a basic premise
or thought. A crutial architectural insight.
Reading the article on open sources cars ming found, brought back the architectural idiom and reference "Form follows Function" that was instilled in me in Arch school and then bingo the insight...
Thats possible but only in egotistical or fashion architecture not natural or sustainable architecture. In truth or maybe not truth but in practice "Function follows Form" Its the building that ultimately determines the function and not the function
that determines the building. It perhaps sematic somewhat but then it isn't. I think Form will alway "over ride" function because forms are more sustainable than functions as form is the noun and function the verb. There is a bit of synthesis between form and function in terms of the architect. The architect is like a form/function anaylist who must take both form and function as equals and create a formal expression or "form" of the conclusion. Different "forms" for different "functions". Effective architecture as it were.
So to the architect form is function and function is form but to the legacy, Function follows the built or expressed form.
I think the closest this has found expression is in the organic architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Conscious architecture of Douglas Cardinal. Closest because neither seemed to have much luck with roofs but achieve a immortal form below the roofs.
alfred More >
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2 Jan 2005 @ 11:19
Imagine 2
Imagine this is now,
It's easy if you try,
Imagine this is real,
and not somebody's lie...
Imagine most of the people,
Living for today...
Imagine this real planet,
It isn't hard to do,
Realize the earth and sky,
Should be shared by me and you,
Imagine most of the people,
Living life in peace...
Imagine few possessions,
I wonder if we can,
Just the basic needs,
So that we can understand,
Imagine most of the people,
Sharing all the world...
You may say that we are dreamers,
But we're not the only ones,
We hope some day you'll join us,
In this moment that is one.
Words by John Lennon and A. Jonas
1975 - 2005
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 4 Nov 2004 @ 10:11
What is global grace? More >
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