[Pair] ing Down

[Pair] ing Down

Meditation/ Celebration

            When I think of these to terms I immediately think of our final project for studio and drafting, because our goal is to create a space that is a meditation space as well as a celebration space. Which is actually rather difficult if you sit down and think about it.

Light/ Shadow

            These terms also remind me of our final studio project, because we have to define the two spaces by altering and manipulating the natural light of the room, which I am finding very difficult to do. But light and shadow allow the essence of reality and duality into the image.

Transpose/ Juxtapose

            Transpose means that two things change place in this case to better a design, however juxtapose is when to things are placed closely together to help electrify a vast contrasting visual. Which reminds me of what we have been told all along when pertaining to projects, because you want to make your images pop and not be looked over.

Literal/ Abstract

            These terms are probably some of the hardest concepts to grasp in IARC because when you first get in the program you want to draw inspiration from another work but you don’t really think about it so you just end up taking more than you wanted from someone else’s design. But this reminds me of the window project in studio because we had to manipulate light and as I have learned you never want to be too literal. “Oh you know the building that looks like a piece of furniture (Roth, 584)?”  Phillip Johnson acquired inspiration for this building by a broken pediment. Maybe a bit too literal.

Monologue/ Dialogue

            These two terms are a long-term friend of the IARC student. Monologue is how your project communicates its purpose, if it’s a hammock then it will communicate as being a hammock. Dialogue is when your projects communicate multiple ideas, this is usually achieved after completing many iterations. Dialogue is what everyone wants their project to attain. During the modernistic phase the architecture seemed to have lost it’s ability to connect or speak to people. It was when a man by the name of Mario Botta said that there was “a need for images, for emotion in architecture, a need for architecture to speak once again to people (Roth, 587).”

Finally

            After completing the opus and thus being probably the shortest one that I have ever done, I realized that the words that were chosen this week were to me almost like an overview and left us thinking about probably the most important terms in our career as IARC students.