Marissa Alicea
Modern Worlds Midterm Paper
ARCH 4140
Prof. Kalipoliti
Fall 2015
In The Belly of an Architect, Stourley Kracklite’s obsession with Boullee’s architecture blinds him from the things that are essential to his success as an architect and his happiness. As a result, he thinks his wife is poisoning him, rather than the cause of his cancer being due to other factors. He sees Caspasian stealing his exhibition and neglects that he’s stealing his wife. His idealism of Boullee’s architecture is exposed to the imperfections and chaos of reality and starts to deteriorate, reflecting Kracklite’s deterioration. Therefore, the individual is fragile compared to the enduring traditional monuments found in Rome. Man’s obsession over establishing …show more content…
Van de Velde stressed that the efforts of the Werkbund should focus on cultivating the young, inventive minds of the new generation and their gifts of “individual manual skill, joy, and belief in the beauty of highly differentiated execution.” This could lead to the creation of designs that would stimulate international demand for German products, rather than forcing the form upon people to be accepted. The leaders of the avante-garde movement also stressed the expression and necessary creative role of the individual artist; “‘[a]rt for art’s sake ’and ‘pure poetry’ appear, and subject matter or content becomes something to be avoided like a plague.” The poets or artists of this movement turned their attention away from the subject of common experiences that could be shared amongst the viewers. For example, Greenberg mentions that James Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake seem to be “the reduction of experience to expression for the sake of expression.” The expression itself now becomes more important than what’s …show more content…
Unlike the rooms of the Victorian era homes that are boxed-in and confining, Falling Water’s open floor plan and use of big glass windows blurred the lines between inside and outside; it also allowed the inhabitants inside to be connected to the nature surrounding their home. The chairs, tables, and other furniture inside the house are designed specifically for it. The materials used to construct the house, such as the stone, were quarried not too far at the site. All of these design decisions were made to highlight the relationship between the site and building. Wright believed one shouldn’t be able to imagine one without the other. His projects are considered organic and functional because when creating such forms, he pays attention to the relationship of the form and the context of the site that it exists on. Most individualists do not consider where the project is going to be encountered when generating forms. They focus on what it means to them and its expression, but do not consider how the culture around it will affect its perception of it or how it will affect the culture around it. Compared to the individualist’s work, Wright’s projects aim to work with nature and the nature of the culture in which it is surrounded by; it does not seek to overcome
Modern Worlds Midterm Paper
ARCH 4140
Prof. Kalipoliti
Fall 2015
In The Belly of an Architect, Stourley Kracklite’s obsession with Boullee’s architecture blinds him from the things that are essential to his success as an architect and his happiness. As a result, he thinks his wife is poisoning him, rather than the cause of his cancer being due to other factors. He sees Caspasian stealing his exhibition and neglects that he’s stealing his wife. His idealism of Boullee’s architecture is exposed to the imperfections and chaos of reality and starts to deteriorate, reflecting Kracklite’s deterioration. Therefore, the individual is fragile compared to the enduring traditional monuments found in Rome. Man’s obsession over establishing …show more content…
Van de Velde stressed that the efforts of the Werkbund should focus on cultivating the young, inventive minds of the new generation and their gifts of “individual manual skill, joy, and belief in the beauty of highly differentiated execution.” This could lead to the creation of designs that would stimulate international demand for German products, rather than forcing the form upon people to be accepted. The leaders of the avante-garde movement also stressed the expression and necessary creative role of the individual artist; “‘[a]rt for art’s sake ’and ‘pure poetry’ appear, and subject matter or content becomes something to be avoided like a plague.” The poets or artists of this movement turned their attention away from the subject of common experiences that could be shared amongst the viewers. For example, Greenberg mentions that James Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake seem to be “the reduction of experience to expression for the sake of expression.” The expression itself now becomes more important than what’s …show more content…
Unlike the rooms of the Victorian era homes that are boxed-in and confining, Falling Water’s open floor plan and use of big glass windows blurred the lines between inside and outside; it also allowed the inhabitants inside to be connected to the nature surrounding their home. The chairs, tables, and other furniture inside the house are designed specifically for it. The materials used to construct the house, such as the stone, were quarried not too far at the site. All of these design decisions were made to highlight the relationship between the site and building. Wright believed one shouldn’t be able to imagine one without the other. His projects are considered organic and functional because when creating such forms, he pays attention to the relationship of the form and the context of the site that it exists on. Most individualists do not consider where the project is going to be encountered when generating forms. They focus on what it means to them and its expression, but do not consider how the culture around it will affect its perception of it or how it will affect the culture around it. Compared to the individualist’s work, Wright’s projects aim to work with nature and the nature of the culture in which it is surrounded by; it does not seek to overcome