Architecture now seems to be in a freefall like painting…whatever can happen will. The cube homes in Rotterdam are not impressive to me. What is impressive to me is that building which answers to the past and necessarily incorporates the “urbane urbanism” that we expect to find in the small structures surrounding buildings. Infrastructure is a refection of society, not an outward effort, but an investigation of what is relevant and vital. Thoughtful design allows society to breathe more freely, to feel interconnected and to have a sense of purpose. Louis Khans National Parliament Building of Bangladesh is a meaningful building to me because it is poetic and it is not about the architect, but about light and feeling the history of architecture in Bangladesh.
It struck me during out trip downtown that thoughtful design is a responsibility in communities. Aesthetic, as I mentioned above is not an outward thing. Like food, nourishes a community or leaves it malnourished. To illustrate this we can take the most extreme examples. Collective well being is presumably more challenged in a ghetto, for instance, with factory like projects and filthy streets.
I wonder if there is really such thing as "postmodern" architecture. If it means integrating the past while acknowledging the present, then even rococo did that. If it means creating new spatial experiences, then the Greeks did that. and if it means looking futuristic, well the Egyptians did that.
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very thoughtful
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