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 5 Oct 2006 @ 09:09
finding some more material.
A very useful architectural site with facility to hunt either by building, building type, or architect
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There are the illustrations of the buildings, with substantive maps and site plans of the buildings of any chosen architect. This link following is on an architect from Greece 440 BC, Mnesicles.
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It is surely part of the legacy of Architecture and its renowned practioners, for it takes more than one individual to complete a building, a whole sympathetic team indeed to do so, and in a way an architectural plan is imbued with life by any who care to resusitate the ideas and put them into brick and mortar. Why should a wonderful design be deemed over because its Signature has moved on to heavenly pastures new? Would he not be given added comfort in the spiritual realms to know that his work and contemplations towards imbuing the earthly environment with sculptural works were continuing in his absence?? Each in their own way Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier made indellible contributions to the ideas of built form in the psyches of man. Each quite different, their work stands as signposts to new types of societies and existence which found huge favour almost immediately.
My own thesis is based on Firminy Vert, an idealised name for a heavy industrial area in France beautified by Le Corbusiers several buildings in the vicinity. These buildings have the capacity, I believe, to make one withdraw into oneself while take deap fresh breathes of air, an inward concentration, allowing new thoughts and insights by the viewer upon exhalation. While in the building, the exterior is literally framed by the concepts inherent in the building, like say the L'eglise Saint-Pierre. One is viewing the outside world through the established concreteness of the biulding which can be shared by the body looking and thinking within the coordinates of that space. It may as well be spaceship offering such capacity to see again anew, the heavy impending industrial sector surrounds on the perimeter of this new space. A holding forth on one's own terms amongst factories belching and hard working endless daily routines on a factory floor. A virtual sanctuary for the self and body corporate to acquire determination inspired by new vision and sense of wholeness with depth in such a surrounding space.
The exterior of the buildings of Corbusier, I believe, are a silent spoken language as the breeze passes over the forms creating inaudible music and tones, as the wind passes over empty bottle tops, the inherent qualities of the building are signified to the environment in these tones, audible only to elemental arcadia as being life giving or life taking. The litmus test being Man himself either being lifted on experiencing the building or drawn down, as with a Pirenesi horror nightmare construction, giving a leaden immovable feeling of hopelessness. So I believe it is Man who judges the life giving potentialities of constructions; but of course not all people are equal in this regard, some have other agendas of their own regarding building, and we all know about this. Which brings us back full circle to the architect, who really only ever thought about the building for its own sake and the purpose. Corbusier added yet another value to his buildings which is why he remains the Iconic Architect par excellence for the popular notion of Modernity coming about after 1920.
Here are fews words from a leading right wing paper says on the subject. More >
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 9 May 2006 @ 14:39
In the ancient plays, intrinsic to the classical plot outlined by Aristotle in his Poetics, an investigation into the Art of Poetics, he defined as a key component of an gripping play, the denouement, (in addition to the famous three Unities, place, time and action). This can be described as the moment when the fate of chief character, or hero, changes from one of self destruction to self fulfilment, even if it involves his death, it will be deemed by Fate (Karma) to have released the spirit from previously conspiring forces onto its own journey toward spiritual, actual or real glory, fitting to the notion of hero, and even tragic hero: one generally considered by the audience to be good and fitting to all known circumstances, even if perhaps perplexing. More >
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 23 Feb 2006 @ 11:11
Archivoid - a working title or the Ionic Equation
This is a jigsaw piece of a thesis. A leading practioner has agreed it could be proven and that it could follow a rigorous method. It therefore would fall into the scientific category of study in architecture. More >
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 10 Feb 2006 @ 11:44
from the Illiad of Homer, date unknown circa 1,000 BC, anyway possibly after the Flood dated up to 1,200 BC.
The beauty of Achilles’ Shield exists in the vastness of its composition and in the visual images this evokes. This I believe, is emblematic of a notion of Universal Beauty, strongly relating to the human form. A comprehension of these notions, can be applied to the Forge of Modernity not More >
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