HONESTY AND DECEPTION
John Ruskin
from the article “The Lamp of Truth”, been introduce “As, whatever is pretend. It
is wrong”. This is because he declaimed that architectural deceits are broadly
to be considered under three heads. “First,
the suggestion of a mode of structure or support other than true one; Second,
the painting of surface to represent some other material than that of which
they actually consist. Third; The use of cast or machine-made ornaments of any
kinds”. He also declaimed that all cast and machine work is dishonest.
From Fil
Hearn, “Truth to the medium: using Materials” He declaimed to be strongly
accepting the new materials to perform various structural tasks.
Ruskin,
Violet and Hearn can be conclude with they all agree with truth of materials.
First of
all using honesty of material which I call it as raw material can act as practice
to preserve the historical building in a way of sustainable. There are lot of
well- known Architects using raw material as primary material for projects. One
of the well known local Malaysian architect is NG SEK SAN with his works on Sekeping’s project. Most of Sekeping
project are renovated are heritage building in to a contemporary resort by
using mix used of traditional and new material. Traditional material such as
timber, steel and brick are used to construct buildings. Likewise, new material
like concrete and glass are used to make structure more efficient and formal.
He also
used openings and glasses to interpret the relationship between interior and
exterior. With the wide openings for all the sekeping building. People can have visual connection to each
other; while the uses of glass can allow penetration of sunlight into the
building to give a better environment condition.
Although,
its good to enrich ‘Honesty’ in architecture but it is important to get in
touch with ‘deception’ in this epoch. As time flies, lots of new materials had
been discovered; like what sir Viollet-le-Duc said, old materials should be
replaced with new era materials because the requirements for the new buildings
had changed from time to time and introducing of artificial intelligence, so it
is not suitable and inconvenient to use traditional materials in constructing
modern building.
Deception
building have a different way in expression of structure because of combination
of machine-made use and hard work for example
use of ornamentation and covering materials. However, we could improve
the lifestyle to a better condition. Architect like zaha Hadid she fully utilize the advantages of deception material morality. her projects are characterized by their capability of using material to form dynamic formal qualities of sinuously, curving shapes or crystallized strata. she embraced digital drawing and combination of new advancement of technology of material. Thus she became one of most iconic architect of 20th century.
Difference between honesty and deception in architecture
is the relationship between interior and exterior. ‘Honesty’ will be like
sekeping serendah which we can have good visual connection with each other. While
Deception will be like Beko buildings where they more to emphasis on
the façade’s decoration for both interior and exterior
In my
opinion, as an Architects cannot only visualize things that normal people see
in physical form, but also to be economical, social, and cultural ways. So it
is important for us to get to know with both Honesty and Deception as we need
to apply for modern building construction that allows us to improve us to
produce a brand new architecture in terms of thinking and as well availability of
materials and technologies.
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