It was fantastic to have Dr. Casey sub in for DC and I greatly enjoyed his knowledge and travel experiences.
While the Jenck’s readings were definitely easier to grasp than the others, for me anyway, I loved how Dr. Casey brought in so many images to expand on the reading. His clarifications of the elements of architecture were simple, yet comprehensive.
After class I approached him about the Experience Music Project that was built in Seattle, WA. Come to find out it was a Frank Gehry design. While it has been called one the ugliest buildings (Forbes) it is definitely a different style to the usual. Gehry has described it as Picasso painting a smashed guitar, if you look at it from an aerial view.
I think the aerial view is rather ugly, but capturing elements from different sides and angles we are able to the beauty in this building. By far the best thing about this building is the use of color, and the ability for the building to change colors based on light reflecting off of it.
While the Jenck’s readings were definitely easier to grasp than the others, for me anyway, I loved how Dr. Casey brought in so many images to expand on the reading. His clarifications of the elements of architecture were simple, yet comprehensive.
After class I approached him about the Experience Music Project that was built in Seattle, WA. Come to find out it was a Frank Gehry design. While it has been called one the ugliest buildings (Forbes) it is definitely a different style to the usual. Gehry has described it as Picasso painting a smashed guitar, if you look at it from an aerial view.
I think the aerial view is rather ugly, but capturing elements from different sides and angles we are able to the beauty in this building. By far the best thing about this building is the use of color, and the ability for the building to change colors based on light reflecting off of it.
From the Jenck’s reading I saw the following rules expressed with the EMP.
Disharmonious Harmony.
Multivalence.
New Rhetorical Figures.
Anthropomorphism. Although, I might be confused by this rule. Does this term strictly apply to making things that look living, i.e. animals, humans, or nature?
Disharmonious Harmony.
Multivalence.
New Rhetorical Figures.
Anthropomorphism. Although, I might be confused by this rule. Does this term strictly apply to making things that look living, i.e. animals, humans, or nature?
http://www.computer.org/portal/cms_docs_dsonline/dsonline/archives/ds300/ds3new1.gif
http://www.smartdestinations.com/design/images/seattle/attractions/GoSEA-emp_exterior.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_Music_Project
http://blogs.laweekly.com/play/projects_seattle.jpg
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These are some really great pictures and they illustrate a lot of the characteristics of post-modern architecture that we learned from Jencks. This building definitely embodies disharmonious harmony in the way that it is chaotic and striking, yet still somehow works. As you said, this building definitely has multivalent and anthropomorphic qualities as well. The Wikipedia article actually cites the body of Stratocaster guitars as a major influence in the design of this building. Another one of Jencks principles of post-modern architecture that I feel is incorporated into this building’s design is the concept of urbane urbanism.
Jencks says that the goal of urbane urbanism is to make new buildings “fit into and extend the urban context, reuse such constraints as the streets, arcade and piazza, yet acknowledge too the new technologies and means of transportation.” (285) The Experience Music Project building captures the idea of urbane urbanism with how it incorporates the Seattle Monorail system. This building actually has the Monorail traveling through it. Now we have a very post-modern building that not only works around the pre-existing constraints, but also includes them in the design of the actual structure.
BG 09/15
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