Skip to main content

Lecture 5 (Q2)

2. What was Alberti / Pallasmaa / Hill arguing for and against? What excerpt/quotation best represents this? 

Leon Battista Alberti (Art of Building in Ten Books)
- In the books of the Art of Building in Ten Books, he explained the usefulness of roof and wall for human. He said that, its helps us to come close to one an another and also grow together.  “Architecture is the product of mind “


Juhani Palasmaa (Excerpts from The Eyees of the Skin)
- Juhani Palasmaa argues that the suppression of the other four sensory realms has led to the overall impoverishment of our built environment, often diminishing the emphasis on the spatial experience of a building and architecture’s ability to inspire, engage and be wholly life enhancing. The focus of the essay is on the fundamental humanity, insight and sensitivity of his approach to architecture.
“the hand wants to see; the eyes want to cares”

Jonathan Hill (Excerpt from immaterial architecture)
- This book discusses the pressures on architect and the architectural profession to be respectively solid matter and solid practice and consider concepts that align architecture with the immaterial, focusing on immaterial architecture as the perceived absence of matter, he devises new means to explore the creativity of both the user and the architect, challenging preconceptions about architecture, its practice, purpose, matter and use.

- The philosophy of the immaterial makes uses of the imaginary of architecture as well as architecture are described with immaterial values to bind together architecture with human emotion and by that make it more  comprehensible.

Popular posts from this blog

SIMPLICITY & COMPLEXITY

                                              SIMPLICITY & COMPLEXITY                                                                 written by                                             Azhar Ali Mohamed Tajudeen (1001335286)                                         VISUAL ART STATION  (GALLERY OCULAR 7) Simplicity and complexity are most discussed topic in the field of architecture. “Designing a simple building has become a very complicated problem” – Vittorio   Gr...

SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY

 SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY Regards of simplicity and complexity which we had discussed from the lecture today, I will be discussing about the design project that I had developed during my Year 2 Sem3. In the project, we are required to design a Art Gallery in a specific site which located in Shah Alam. The reasons I choose this specific project is because I find that the layout design and outcome of the building suits well to the ‘Simplicity’ concept. Simplicity ,t he result is a beautiful rhythmic quality. Repetition with a simple expression of materials creates the  architecture's simplicity .  The building basically is a two storey building which blend in with natural and modern element.   From the ground floor , the first thing we can see is  the lobby and the reception area which is located in the middle of the building. As the building is purpose for the people who doing quilting activity , so the lobby is set at a moderate area whi...

Kooi Jii Cheung 1001645805 - Velerian and the City of Thousand Planet

Valerian and the city of a thousand planets Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets   is based on a French science fiction comics series called  Valerian and  Laureline , created by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières.  Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,  take place in the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under a assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of  Alfa.  Its Climate condition is sets on the outer space environment , where people live in a station called " ALPHA ". Alpha is an enormous space station that has grown into an expansive and visually  stunning city of interconnected worlds. Centuries ago, Alpha was in orbit around the earth, but now its the center of Intergalactic diplomacy and home to thousands of alien species...