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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS) IN ARCHITECTURE THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM (ARC61303 SYNOPSIS: REACTION PAPER (August 2017)

Name: Teo Kuo Chien

ID No.: 0320195

Lecturer: Mr.Nicholas Ng

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Reader/Text Title: The Metropolis and Mental Synopsis No:1A Life

Author: Georg Simmel

“The Metropolis and Mental Life” focuses on illuminating the “modern strands of current life with references of the inner meaning in them. The author fulfill this goal by two tip.

Firstly, observe the adaptions and modification achievement by people in response to external forces and secondly by detailing how social structures specify certain relationships.

Simmel think the quality of relationships change between small towns and large urban cities and this changes significantly impacted psyche. In small towns, individuals gain more organic social networks that develop naturally according to traditional groups of the family. The limited size and groups in the town also act as a factor in to group choice.

The choice of groups may be limited but the relationship are more meaningful.

Individuals follow after the model of the small organic group so no individual will stand out from the group. Rational groups are methodically manipulated. Even as square and are prevalent urban settings. As Simmel mentioned, “the metropolis has always been the seat of money economy”. From here, individuals choose their relationships and social circle for rational reason. These option tend to be goal situated, with some objective conclude in mind, such as “what can I get out of this without expending too much of my already depleted energy?” Although human need groups and social circle, overloaded complex groups and relationships as found in the city can raise the level of stimuli and contribute to the blase metropolitan behavior. In the other words, we can only give in that much of ourselves into any group and if we experience too many different groups in the urban environment, the overwhelm of stimuli can make us retreat.

My opinion toward this reader is that things have no original value that make them more worthy than others. Their value are only measured by the external objective value of money and time so it is actually all the same.

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Date :29 October 2017

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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS) IN ARCHITECTURE THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM (ARC61303 SYNOPSIS: REACTION PAPER (August 2017)

Name: Teo Kuo Chien

ID No.: 0320195

Lecturer: Mr.Nicholas Ng

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Reader/Text Title: Intentions in Architecture

Synopsis No:2A Author: Christian Norberg-Schulz

The thought from my viewpoint of this “Intentions In Architecture” by Norberg-Schulz is that the current study has developed and form into solid problems that an architect face in his profession.

A minor disagreement on this as in the first place, considering the technical difficulties which has to be a solid relation to any building requirement, but I will rather keep in mind that the issue of defining the task, and deciding a planned or final solution is satisfied. In both case, the architect, society as well as the client have to take into consideration of the language of both practical and artistic needs. No doubt that we are lack of a formal procedure in processing that result into discouraging debate between parties without getting at fruitful and mutually helpful approaches to the problem. With the repetition pressure of new needs, most professionals are being force to develop extensive theoretical ‘tools”. However, as for our architectural solutions, there are still result of accidental improvisations. Architects have shown themselves rather resist to develop a theoretical basis for their field, essentially because of the prejudice that the theory will destroy the ability of being creative in mind. While our practical come with problems to certain level that have been analyse, architects also included crucial environmental problems which so far have by no purpose to be deeply considered.

As a conclusion for my thoughts of this reader, it is clear that this aspect cannot be apart from the practical side of the issue and the architecture both as a problem and act as a all set result. It must be thought as a whole, of which the individual side are respectively interconnected. As for that, the current study has therefore develop into an experiment to present a set up survey of all the dimensions which might be visioned to enter a work.

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Date :29 October 2017

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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS) IN ARCHITECTURE THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM (ARC61303 SYNOPSIS: REACTION PAPER (August 2017)

Name: Teo Kuo Chien

ID No.: 0320195

Lecturer: Mr.Nicholas Ng

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Reader/Text

Title:

Space,

Place,

Memory

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Imagination: The Temporal Dimension of Existential Space

Synopsis No:3A Author: Junahi Pallasmaa

My reflection toward “Space, Place, Memory and imagination: The Temporal Dimension of Existential Space� by Pallasmaa is that the Architectural experiences are mostly multisensory and concurrent, and a complicated entity is usually clutch as an atmosphere, ambience or feeling.

In point of fact, the perception concerning the character of a space or place hail for level of sensing that expand more than the five basic senses of human being such as the illustrated existential sense and as a solution, the entity is recognized as a filtered, peripheral and unclear appearance. Confusingly, we grasp into an atmosphere before we have clearly digest, understand and identified its fundamental aspects and ingredients. Human being are mentally and emotionally influenced by surrounding works of art before we comprehend them properly, or we may not even get the information that it is trying to present to us at all. Architects and artists with great and tremendous senses compensate deep appreciation towards the experience and emotion qualities of the spaces and artwork. This volume calls for a unique kind of imagination, an emphatic thought. Atmosphere are recognized peripherally through filtered vision interpretation together with other mode of sense, and they experienced emotionally instead of intellectually. The differentiation of two brain hemisphere propose that atmospheres are recognized through the right hemisphere. And surprisingly, atmosphere are more easier to understand as an objectives in literature, cinema, theater, painting and music than in architecture, which has been traditionally accessed properly and recognized primarily with focused vision.

Conclusively for that, as we see thing in focus mode, we are perceived as an outsider to it, which conclude that the experience of being in a space hails for incidental and uncleared perception. The main reason of the experiential dept of existing settings could be in the poverty of their sense of incidental.

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Date :30 October 2017

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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS) IN ARCHITECTURE THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM (ARC61303 SYNOPSIS: REACTION PAPER (August 2017)

Name: Teo Kuo Chien

ID No.: 0320195

Lecturer: Mr.Nicholas Ng

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Reader/Text

Title:

Towards

a

Critical

Synopsis No:4A

Regionalism : Six Point for an Architect of Author: Kenneth Frampton resistance

The reader’s purpose is to evaluate the priority of culture and natural value in terms of Critical Regionalism. It transmit that advanced technology in present-day conditioned the discrepancy between universal civilization and aboriginal culture, as topography became an aspect of manipulating that rather to be modified than a definite properties to be grasp. As for my thoughts, cultural motif are being seen as a forgotten subject in the industry as the term ‘culture’ is link to the past and the idea to the future of that place is unconcerned. In order to widen the rationale of culture, by considering the plan of development for the site is important as to create a design reminding people of the past but essentially notifying the the presence of the people from that era.

Frampton’s controversy between nationalism and regionalism in terms of modulation and contextual respond, he demand that great use of universal technique can dilute the sense of the environment. Poetic senses of space is remove by exclusive use of artificial light as well as air-conditioner replacing the nature freshness of the atmosphere. I agree with the point of view that vision nationalism as an architecture movement and habit, and the pace of development defines the habit of material utilization. Alternately, playing with the potential creative dimension of modulation might benefit in developing the era of future revolution.

As a support for resisting the domination universal technology, it is necessary understand and perceive the capacity of the content to read the environment in terms of residual than those of sight. The importance of the tactile resides because it can only be figured out itself. I complied with the idea of Frampton that capacity of tactile to provoke the impulse to bring the architect back to the poetics of construction as it grant rise to the realization of various dimension of sensory experience that create a region that bond the people bond together.

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Date :31 October 2017

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