Manifestos and the Denial of Man
I’m … bout … to … rant. My thoughts regarding the works of architects such as Eisenman, Libeskand, Gehry, and many more, all at altering degrees of absurdity, are as follows; the lack of consideration for the human experience at the FOREFRONT of design is distressing. I guess I should say ‘in my opinion’. Experimentations with geometries and operations, hidden from the rest of us but divinely revealed by your lucid investigations, fail to manifest a resolution beyond “Woah”. I find it, frankly, selfish. Your endeavors, however aw-creating, are manufactured in a sort of sadistic isolation, absent from the non-corporate, rejective of, let’s call it, reality, and arbitrarily defined. These logic-driven, indexial (hope I understood this term correctly) designs are still self-derived, and therefore not conquest of universal truths. I think its BS. Now, to bring this thing full-circle… there is a small, really minute, portion of me that finds intrigue in the crazy, the radical, the different. But I always concede to the notion of objects operating in a vacuum, absent of man’s presence, being best left on paper.
It's very interesting how some architecture is more about the statement that it makes as an object than how it functions as a usable building. It makes me wonder, could these statements still be made if the drawings never left the page?
ReplyDeleteBut I mean... why not have a few statements and surprises in a world of the expected? Sometimes you need icons, even in architecture, to simply know that you CAN.
DeleteI completely understand where you are coming from, in that I think the main focus of a building is how it functions and serves people. However, I believe it should also be beautiful. When it comes the architects and buildings like the ones shown above, it is clear that it is more about how beautiful the form are. But I also think there is a hidden level of how it functions for the people, a level that can only be personally experienced when one navigates through these buildings.
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