Opus 13, [Pair]ing Down

PROMPTS

MEDITATION/CELEBRATION

So I’m not even in the program just yet, although I did register for my first year studio classes yesterday! YES! But I know that this is something the program relies heavily on, creating a place built for meditation and built to celebrate the life as a whole. I do believe this is very true and something that should be incorporated with every single design ever made, now is it? Of course not, all designs and structures have their downfalls and flaws to them, but something that can make us even fall more in love with them over time just as its happened before.

LIGHT/SHADOW

I like to think me being involved in photography that these two elements are very important in a photo because it sometimes is definitely intended and other instances it can literally ruin a photograph and block out your main subject. But in architecture I think all structures need a beautiful way to provide that, the one design that I usually think of is Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey that Patrick showed us. And when I saw the interior and how the dome lets such gorgeous lighting in throughout the day, I honestly understood how vital lighting was to a structure. Because sure there is your everyday window we control lighting through the use of blinds but then there is simply profound ways in which it can be allowed in.

TRANSPOSE/JUXATOSE

I believe that we have to do both of these things to a structure from time to time, transpose being to change its form or its entire design. Juxtapose being to place side by side one another. Especially in the 20th century I think designs often had to undergo both of them, such as the Guggenheim in New York by Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright. Patrick informed us that its main component to its design didn’t work correctly mostly because of the entire thing being rounded, thus eventually they had to design a completely different place just to house the artwork.

LITERAL/ABSTRACT

Over analyzation I believe is something people definitely do now a lot now days, there interpret designs, and artwork, life... everything in general. There thinking to much about it, to much a abstract observation towards something. And designers sometimes probably do strive towards accomplishing that, but other times they want it right smack dab in your face, kind of “what you see, is what you get” sorta thing. That’s what I’ve come to like in design, I like to steer away from the bull crap and just get to the point of it. I honestly do wish people and designers would have a goal of that more now-a-days.

MONOLOGUE/DIALOGUE

These two terms bring to mind first, english! Which is mostly where there heard I’m sure... but in architecture they can also be applied, modern architecture relies mostly being looked at in a monologue sense because there isn’t too much else to gaze upon. But when I think of Wrights work, I know he designed many of the interiors and the very furniture within which I think definitely deserves your attention and it’s more of a dialogue way sort of thinking. Everything within the design talks to each other in my mind and is made to be that way.