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Saturday, September 6, 2008
Post 4
Is architecture art?
I always think that architectures are like giant sculptures that we can walk in and out, and architects are space crafters who create architecture which materializes in expressive forms ,that respond to human necessities ,which we call functions .the functions are never just utilitarian , they always have purposes too : symbolic ,cultural ,artistic .these expressive forms have meanings to humans , they do have a symbolic and aesthetic finality , they provoke a certain impression to humans and are conceived in such a way .
Some sculptural works by Rachel Whiteread and Anish Kapoor do overlap with architecture in the way that they relate to people through a space, especially those works displayed in the Turbine Hall in Tate Modern, London.
Gaudi is a prime example of architecture as art, where his forms are so organic they are more artistic fantasy than architecture. Gaudí, throughout his life, studied nature's angles and curves and incorporated them into his designs. Instead of relying on geometric shapes, he mimicked the way men stand upright. The hyperboloids and paraboloids he borrowed from nature were easily reinforced by steel rods and allowed his designs to resemble elements from the environment.Having said that, the Sagrada Familia church constucted by Gaudi is also an awesome piece of structural engineering, proving that architecture can fulfil the criteria of both an art and a science.
Many great architects were also artists, Le Corbusier being a strong example. Le Corbusier's post-war buildings rejected his earlier industrial forms and utilized vernacular materials, brute concrete and articulated structure. Near the end of his career he worked on several projects in India, which utilized brutal materials and sculptural forms. In these buildings he readopted the recessed structural column, the expressive staircase, and the flat undecorated plane of his celebrated five points of architecture.
However, utilitarian architecture - where it is simply built for the purpose its required for there has been no emotion put into this just so long as the building regs are checked, the planning permission is granted and the costs stack up. I still think this is not art to me .
I always think that architectures are like giant sculptures that we can walk in and out, and architects are space crafters who create architecture which materializes in expressive forms ,that respond to human necessities ,which we call functions .the functions are never just utilitarian , they always have purposes too : symbolic ,cultural ,artistic .these expressive forms have meanings to humans , they do have a symbolic and aesthetic finality , they provoke a certain impression to humans and are conceived in such a way .
Some sculptural works by Rachel Whiteread and Anish Kapoor do overlap with architecture in the way that they relate to people through a space, especially those works displayed in the Turbine Hall in Tate Modern, London.
Gaudi is a prime example of architecture as art, where his forms are so organic they are more artistic fantasy than architecture. Gaudí, throughout his life, studied nature's angles and curves and incorporated them into his designs. Instead of relying on geometric shapes, he mimicked the way men stand upright. The hyperboloids and paraboloids he borrowed from nature were easily reinforced by steel rods and allowed his designs to resemble elements from the environment.Having said that, the Sagrada Familia church constucted by Gaudi is also an awesome piece of structural engineering, proving that architecture can fulfil the criteria of both an art and a science.
Many great architects were also artists, Le Corbusier being a strong example. Le Corbusier's post-war buildings rejected his earlier industrial forms and utilized vernacular materials, brute concrete and articulated structure. Near the end of his career he worked on several projects in India, which utilized brutal materials and sculptural forms. In these buildings he readopted the recessed structural column, the expressive staircase, and the flat undecorated plane of his celebrated five points of architecture.
However, utilitarian architecture - where it is simply built for the purpose its required for there has been no emotion put into this just so long as the building regs are checked, the planning permission is granted and the costs stack up. I still think this is not art to me .