"'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder' Meaning: it is all in me."
We are all here to learn how to make architecture. But I think the by-product of our education is even more important. We are all learning how to see the inherent beauty in a material joint, to change the trajectory of people's lives, to design problems and design solutions, and to think about the built environment in a different way.
This means that in our travels, we (might) feel differently when entering a space. We are deliberately looking for the atmosphere. We are, in a second's time, analyzing the body, material, sound, temperature, surrounding objects, composure + seduction, and the tension between interior + exterior.
If we are tasked with making architecture for the community, how can we tap into their senses? Is the general public as aware of their surroundings as trained architects? Does this mean that we need to exaggerate the means to provoke emotion to capture even the interested audiences?
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| Castle of Bellinzona, Switzerland |
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| Bellinzona, Switzerland |
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| Chapel of Reconciliation, Berlin |
Do architectural moments like these capture only our attention?
You have posed a great question that we actually talked about on the Freshman review yesterday. How much is gained through an architectural or spatial education, and how could others benefit from exposure to these ideas? Could it enrich their views on life and the world, or is this something that is seen anyway, but we just choose to more openly talk about. Is the idea of "place" simply an archi-speak construct or is it a phenomenon that people regularly experience? If the latter, how do we improve our work to make more/better moments in the world?
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