Modern or Contemporary
What is modern architecture? There is an answer come from the movie Playtime.
Playtime is a project to try to talk about how modern architecture and technology to influence people’s life. The movie was directed by Jacques Tati. He was also the protagonist of the movie. At the time of its release in 1967, Playtime was the most expensive French film ever made. For produce it, Tati created a huge set at the outskirts of Paris that referred to by locals as “Tativille”. His city within a city was representative of the purest ideals of the International Style of architecture. The buildings were made of glass and steel. All of the shapes are straight lines. The buildings in the city are looks the same. The boundary between private and public space is blurred because of the glass.
The Modern in Tati's mind is absurd. People use the building as their identification. The film tries to pronounce the modern style is killing the variety. That gives the thinking opposites to architects. The design tries to go deeper and more detail. But sometimes the design makes space lost the varieties. When the designer design the details, most of the time it is a solution to peoples’ lives. The design has the plan that how people use it and when people use it. As the international style architecture, the building works as the machine. It has high organized orders, the windows and the doors have the same size for the whole building, the color is same from bottom to top, the rhythm of the facade is same for four sides of the building.
As a people who is not an architect, his opinion is more perceptual intuition. That the model kill the localization and diversity.
Playtime is a project to try to talk about how modern architecture and technology to influence people’s life. The movie was directed by Jacques Tati. He was also the protagonist of the movie. At the time of its release in 1967, Playtime was the most expensive French film ever made. For produce it, Tati created a huge set at the outskirts of Paris that referred to by locals as “Tativille”. His city within a city was representative of the purest ideals of the International Style of architecture. The buildings were made of glass and steel. All of the shapes are straight lines. The buildings in the city are looks the same. The boundary between private and public space is blurred because of the glass.
The Modern in Tati's mind is absurd. People use the building as their identification. The film tries to pronounce the modern style is killing the variety. That gives the thinking opposites to architects. The design tries to go deeper and more detail. But sometimes the design makes space lost the varieties. When the designer design the details, most of the time it is a solution to peoples’ lives. The design has the plan that how people use it and when people use it. As the international style architecture, the building works as the machine. It has high organized orders, the windows and the doors have the same size for the whole building, the color is same from bottom to top, the rhythm of the facade is same for four sides of the building.
As a people who is not an architect, his opinion is more perceptual intuition. That the model kill the localization and diversity.
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