Silvetti describes four cases that affect form-making, “a creative process,” of architecture today: Programism, Thematization, Blobs, and Literalism. When I think of form-making, things such as context, program, and sustainability come to my mind as I was taught to use these influences to assist the process of form-making. The first case is programism, using program, “a protocol of complex linear conglomerates of information“ as a generator of form as opposed to function. I feel that this is what we have been doing in every studio, since we are all given a specific program on a specific site. Sometimes I wonder if 20 students are working on the same exact site and program to produce architectural project, why would our forms be different? We all have the same information about the site, program, and those analysis, but we always end up having different forms. I think THIS IS what makes me like architecture so much. There are many more factors involved in form making…intuition, aesthetics, emotion, backgrounds, experience….because we all are different our projects turn out to be different. It’s deep….
Blobs is a new possibility in the form-making of architecture, the use of 3D digital technology to generate complex forms. This is an advancement in architecture, but also is a threat in architecture. I feel that using these 3D digital technologies to generate form can produce aesthetically beautiful, complex, and flawless forms, and people will appreciate that. Not everyone is an architect, in fact most people are non-architect who don’t consider buildings as we do. These people will look at these new buildings and say it’s a great architecture piece simply because the buildings look nice. These people will not pay attention to the buildings’ relationship to context, program, history, and sustainability because they don’t care about those!! I feel that my goal as an architect is to make people consider architecture more profoundly and look at it in various ways not just appearance.
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I think you made a really good point when you question the fact that we all have different projects when we are all assigned the same data. It is indeed very deep and has alot to do with each individuals personality, background etc.. That is also what makes me like architecture so much but also hate it because with so many different possibilities, I feel like there is never a level of agreement as to what Architecture should be and do.
ReplyDeleteSo, I ask myself sometimes, how come some architects have projects that anybody can understand and relate to, what makes those buildings so powerful. is it there simplicty, complexity...?