Less Is More: The Expression Of Architecture

The Expression of Architecture The language is the capacity of transmit and receive some information and understand this message, giving it a signification. It is the base of all communication and exchange in human being interaction. This pattern is not only speaking or texting, all human act have meaning and can transfer some idea – architecture, by it forms and shapes, can express a lot. After The Second Word War a new aesthetic, called Modernism, made architecture and all society to change its way of express. It priming for a simple and minimal language, dictating functionalism and rationalism as rules for all kind of thinking. Surged in Bauhaus school from Germany, Modernism spread itself turning internationally accepted. “Less is more”, …show more content…
All buildings of Modernism are empty of meaning; its boxes of glass shape’s cannot represent the truly function of the construction, it`s a decorated shed. Robert Venturi, the defender of this theory, explain that there are two kinds of building: the duck and the decorated shed. The duck is a building that show what its function directly –some old sellers of duck used to construct a store with duck shape – and the decorated shed is a building that we cannot understand its function just looking to it, need some sign or advertisement that indicate what the building does. Such as if you are in a bank, you cannot identify it only looking to the building. You need the CHASE sign to tell you in what agency you are. Post-moderns wants to give meaning to buildings by a language that contradict that from Modernism: The abstractionism and minimalism are substituted by a huge symbolism, the standard and ordinary are changed to the original, the form turn to image, and the pure architecture change to a compound of means. Deconstructivism, on other hand, crunch these concepts of language and affects it in a bigger …show more content…
Here, the architect search to unfold the concept of the building dividing it in distinct parts, trying to take off the meaning and show what are in between of this two categories. Deconstruct architects do not try to sustain values or pass messages, they critic the currently way of life, showing how flow and intangible are our trues, beliefs and relationships. To transmit this concept of no unique true the movement break the relation of essence and appearance, distort the shape of the edifice, mix the concepts of inside and outside, show the structure as an ornament, and use the maximum of modify shapes, in this manner collapse down the common sense of what is a