We are all guilty of it. We design our projects to be "cool" in form or function, and then post-rationalize the meaning behind it all. As discussed in class, Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin was designed in form off lines of force, this probably happened in pre-design. However, apparently he also explains that it's a newly formed Star of David, adding to the narrative or making the angles more rational. This is an example of a narrative necessary to explain a unique form, but is it really necessary? I think in the case of the Jewish Museum the internal experience of the building is the important aspect. Bjarke Ingels has started a new trend of creating little videos to explain his projects, which typically include his well-known diagrams. Is he doing this because his projects are unique and he feels the need to make it rational by describing a poetic narrative, or just to sell his projects in general?
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Daniel Libeskind. Jewish Museum
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I think that Libeskind's Jewish museum is unique in the experience that it gives its users and to give it this narrative almost takes away from that uniqueness.
ReplyDeletePost-rationalization is such a huge part of our communal mindset that we almost take it too far. Yes, I think it is important to have reasons and motivations but is it really necessary to change or "improve" them as an afterthought?
ReplyDeleteArchitecture as much about selling an idea as it is about the idea itself which is why Ingels' diagrams have become so popular. They have become a new parti in architecture and do a very good job of explaining something in a simple way that is otherwise complex. In a field where this is not a right answer I think post-rationalization and all the forms it comes in are really important to discerning why one answer is better than another.
ReplyDeleteThe formation of Post-rationalization is because we started from the point of morphological composition in the early days of learning architecture. Even if you ask the lee hall students now, who do not want their own works unique. With this thought, this sin will surely continue
ReplyDeleteI dont think a narrative really helps in selling the building to a general public. I wonder how many people who have no connection to architecture must have heard of the narrative for the Jewish Museum. People visit that building because it creates a experience which is unique.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Tyler. Selling the design to the world is much more important than rationalizing ideas to the community of architecture. Whether it comes at the beginning or at the end, it is successful and benefits the project in the world's eye.
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