ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO 3 “AIR” DESIGN JOURNAL 2012
Building as Discourse Endless, Gigantic, Holistic, Coherent
Project “Brick Country House� - Mies van der Rohe,1923 Instead of cutting little space for rooms, Mies utilized the endless walls which thrust into the background context (desert) to create and hold the spaces. The extending characteristics of the external walls impress people by forming ENDLESS feeling. It in the other hand enrages the building. The endless walls make the villa become grand and spectacular.
Project “Plan Vision” - Le Corbusier The major difference between an architect and an urban planner is that architects deal with small scale of buildings while urban planners deal with large scale of buildings. To urban planner, the city itself is architecture. The “Plan Vision” is the project of urban planner done by a modern architect Le Corbusier. He expressed his own language about architecture into the city plan. The COHERENCE and identical building style reinforces the HOLISTIC aesthetics.
St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, many architects St. Peter’s Basilica is an example of political discourse. As it is the master piece done my many architects, it is not only containing the discourse of one architect, but all of them. The line connects all their discourses are the political power. The building must show him power of religion to the world. The basilica is GIGANTIC, grand elegant and revered in order to express its political and religious power, or in the other hand, it emphasizes the term of Unitarianism.