Opus 10, Between Silence + Light

PROMPTS

CRAFT

"The most important design reform movement to affect the interior in the nineteenth century was that of the Arts and Crafts. Starting in Britain, the movement had a far-reaching influence on twentieth-century design." (Massey 7) This actually was the first question Patrick asked us when we first started quizzes everyday last week... and this was something I actually retained from the reading, and it is possible because it's the first line of the reading but needless to say I remembered which is always exciting! Moving on, I believe craft is something that should be in a separate category from everything, such as architecture, sculpture, art and all that jazz has its own individual category so it only seems fair for crafts to have it as well. This term incorporates hand crafting, similar to sculpting but usually completely different materials used throughout which I believe that's how you distinguish between the two. 

PUBLIC/PRIVATE

In last weeks class, one of the two we had Patrick talked about how in the modern design era became much more in touch and involved with the public as well as private interiors. People started wanting their private spaces within their homes, and there also became much more public spaces like train stations were a huge one thanks to the material cast iron and glass and with those two new materials they could achieve much longer spans in distance. 

TECHNIQUE

When I try to consider this word in a architectural sort of way, I can’t help but want to extend it to other things, because I believe it does in fact go within so many things. Almost everything we do in our everyday life has a technique to it, meaning there is a style or fashion in which we do things. Probably almost everyone has their own unique technique for how they go about completing different things. 

LANGUAGE

Language to me conveys people, it’s what makes everything we know. You hear and use language every single day and probably will throughout our entire life. In architecture I believe language to be extremely vital because different civilizations have different languages thus their structure will have embodied within various languages. In our History and Theory of Design class thus far even though there isn't to many weeks left of school; but nonetheless I have seen many different cultures and languages put into the structures that still remain very distinct till this day. Such as the very first structure we looked at Stonehenge, this conveys a language in which no one has yet to find out about, there have been many theories about where it could have originated from, but no one truly knows and honestly probably never will. Next there is the Ancient Egyptian pyramids in Giza which to anyone should really provide such an outstanding sense of the term language because it's stood the test of time and I think it will certainly be around for many, many more years to come and probably outlast many of the US's current structures. 

VIRTUAL

Video games are honestly the first thing I can think of when I consider this word, and I think of when games were really starting to get popular and people starting calling them "virtual games" and not like consoles as they are defined today. But in design I believe virtual is an experience within itself, it's going into a building and looking every which way possible and feeling, touching, smelling the structure. LIVING in it really and using all of your senses to live in the moment and experience the structure itself and see it on how it was meant to be seen. Appreciate the structure to its fullest, and create your own virtuality and re-experience it from time to time if it's possible. 

REFLECTION

So far I've had not to much of a challenge relating my OPUS in someway but I can say that this one actually did. But I can't honestly tell if it's because of the prompts or because of me growing tired of doing these blog entries. I think doing them is finally catching up to me but luckily there isn't too many more OPUS entries left until SUMMER! Yeah man, I'm pretty stoked about it... but one thing that is pretty exciting is that I am currently taking Intro to Art and were in the Arts/Crafts section and that's what we've been discussing lately in Patricks class. But I am ready to wrap up these blogs until next year! SEE YA!