THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE
Walt Disney Concert hall by Frank Gehry, it was built in Los Angeles Music Centre dated back on 24th October 2003.
When we mentioned about concert, we think of music and dance. Music, is dynamic, free flowing and dramatic, thus form the shape of the “ roof” of the concert hall which is irregular and curvy.
“ Music is made out of connections between chords” this is a famous saying by Adele, there must have some connections between chords to form a beautiful music that flows smoothly and makes us feel confortable. This characteristic is shown by the portions of curvy roof which connects one another and form a continues wave.
When there is a connection, music can flow smoothly. Thus, the roof of the building potrailed a very smooth steel surface.
The difference in height of the peaks of the concert also shows that music consist of the beginning, chorus and the ending which has its high and low at the same time.
It's strange that Walt Disney and Frank Gehry never worked together; they might have. If Dad had lived 10 years longer, I know their paths would have crossed." Together with her late mother Lillian, Diane Disney Miller has been one of the driving forces behind the gloriously cartoon-like, $274m (£161m) Walt Disney Concert Hall that opened last week in downtown Los Angeles. –theguardian UK
"I believe the design of the Walt Disney Concert Hall suggests music," says Gehry, "and I hope that when people attend concerts in the hall, their eyes will wander through the shapes of the building and find that what they see harmonises with the music they're listening to."
If all this sounds as if it is verging on kitsch, or an architect's version of a rollercoaster Disneyland ride, have no fear. The degree of abstraction is too great for that. This building is a mature, confident and powerful work of art. It has about it the feeling and, to an extent, the writhing forms and spatial tricks of 17th-century Italian baroque churches, palaces and monasteries. - theguardian UK
Gehry likes to compare it to a huge flower blooming in a gigantic garden: "Lillian Disney loved flowers and gardens. I don't think she understood the form of the building. She liked to bring me pictures of little brick cottages with thatched roofs and little ducky ponds and hoped that I'd incorporate these in my designs. I promised I'd build her a garden." - theguardian UK
Photo 1.1: The real Walt Disney Concert Hall building versus the sketch by Frank Gehry
Walt Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry
By Joana Chan Sing Sien 1001335414
"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
-Betty Friedan
Royal Ontario Museum Daniel Libeskind
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Architectural styles: Byzantine Revival architecture, Romanesque Revival architecture
Royal Ontario Museum is the museum of art, world culture and natural history which is located in Toronto, Canada. It is the most impressive building to me myself because of its supreme outstanding appearance. I was first attracted by the beauty of the old building and amazed by the pop out dynamic structure that attached to it.
It is the combination of antique and new.
It’s a contrast presence.
It’s superb.
Royal Ontario Museum gave me a feeling of egocentric, yet humble. Why that is a totally different emotion? This is because of egocentric represent the new, and humble represent the old.
The ancient building has its own aesthetic that appreciated by the community, and yet the modern building has the speciality for the world to explore. Not only the appearance but also the materials used. The old building was built by stone and concrete and the new one was built by using steel and glass. The texture and warmth of material makes me feel the sharply different feeling of the building. The old is warm, friendly and peaceful and the new is cold, lonely and coolness.
From that also I can feel the new one tried to stand out proudly with the help of the old. This is what our community form is. Without the help of the older generation, how can we stand up on our own? We need educate from them so that we can have a better personality and thereby contribute to the society.
This is what we called SYMBIOSIS. Without old generation, we cannot be born. But also without new generation, new approach cannot be done. We are helping each other to reach the most optimum standard of society for everyone to live in.
By Too Xin Yi 1001231897
Architecture Installation
KL Asean Heritage 2015 Heineken event was exhibited in League of Captians, Kuala Lumpur. It was design by UCSI alumni student, Henry.
The tape installation is conceived as a kind of parasite, site specific object located at places like building or structure. Therefore the installation appeared more like a captured UFO and less like a cocoon.
The tendons of multiple layers of transparent adhesive tape are firstly stretched in between a construction. The following continuous wrapping of tendons results in a complex, amorphous surface through the process reminiscent of growing of organic forms.
The installation is to show the characteristic of Heineken beer. The design used the feeler to attach to difference part of the building, to create a sculpture that floats inside the building.
Visitors to the exhibition can walk around inside the building, to have a difference angle of view to the installation.
Characteristic of Heineken are fluidity and smooth, compare to others beer.it used transparent synthetic mesh.
Point - human
Line – connection
Form – the place
The sculpture like pieces are large in scale and take over whole public spaces while also reinventing them, changing the way which they can be occupied and changing the experience of the interactions between participants.
By Tan Xin Kai 1001438114
Frank Gehry’s LA concert hall –a tribute to the great animator and a gift to the people –is nothing short of masterpiece, says Jonathan Glancey.
Site Title
THE SCREAM
Originally picture expression is came through the nature while on a walk after his 2 companions, seen in the background which had left him. His weird face causes by the sound facts from animals/ environment and his mind in abnormal state. From the research, some article was saying the picture background took at the Ekeverg hill above Oslo, Norway and the road called "Valhallveien". this is Munch really captured a feeling that everyone can relate to even if it's just, "Oh, S#*@!, I left the toaster on at home!" and this image also as the central element of his celebrated Frieze of Life series.
The scream composition cardboard was done in oil, tempera, pastel and lithograph between 1893 & 1910. It's was different expression between the colour and the black & white (pure lines). The black & white version is to clear disconnect between the emotion and the peaceful surrounding the environment. The original version, the flowing curving lines is to represent the nature emotion like art nouveau style to impress the natural organic structures. From the image consists of 3 main areas, there is the bridge which extends a long distance to fill the prospect, a landscape of shoreline and the hills and the sky, which is activated with curving lines in tones of orange, yellow, red, and blue-green. “I was walking along the road with two friends—the sun went down—I felt a gust of melancholy—suddenly the sky turned a bloody red. I stopped, leaned against the railing, tired to death—as the flaming skies hung like blood and sword over the blue-black fjord and the city—My friends went on—I stood there trembling with anxiety—and I felt a vast infinite scream [tear] through nature.” The figure on the bridge—who may even be symbolic of Munch himself—feels the cry of nature, a sound that is sensed internally rather than heard with the ears. Yet, how can this sensation be conveyed in visual terms? notes from Munch's diary dated January 22,1892. The colour is to represent the human/objects emotion and the sound facts from the environment.
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My initial thought in this art "the scream", it's is expressionism from the human effect by the environments. From architecture thought, the arts itself look symbolism, impressionism and expressionism which created by environment and the objects surround to human. Except the scream thought, it's giving me a surprising/ horrible from the positive/negative architecture environment itself. It's a movement from architecture and culture converting to nature and its depiction from imagination. Nothings else is from the style and it's from the nature movement compared with the 21st century and earlier on that. Images below is the abstract and experience work from the article. It's to show how impress there are, how express they get and how symbol look like?
hew wooi kean 1001335533
“Woods of Net”istallation by Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam
Location: Hakone Open Air Museum in Japan
Intention of "wood of net"
At this time, the country was narrowly focused on economic development; few were considering the effects on children of growing up in cramped, high-rise apartments, watching television, often an only child without brothers or sisters to interact with. The architect was very worried about this.
We need a spaces for children to play with each other. Children learn through play, grow emotionally and imaginatively; they develop social skills, learn to cooperate, and gain wisdom about life. It is essential they use their bodies, challenge themselves, have fun, sweat and laugh with others.
What ispired the architect?
Most infants are cradled in the womb for 9 months. After birth, newborn baby was placed in a kind of cradle when it is not in its mother’s arms. The cradle mimics the rocking, floating motion inside the womb. Babies are soothed and sleep peacefully.
The crochet forms that make by this architect to resemble the mother’s womb. The soft, elastic surface is familiar to the child. The net membrane is sensitive to the child’s slightest movement capturing his energy and transmitting it back to him. The wave-like motion of the net connects him with other children and they start playing together. Their creative minds start to move and they find new ways of playing. They respond to each other. It is sometimes hard to entice children out of the net; they can sometimes be lost in it for 3-4 hours.
This installation allow all children to play together. They do not have to be athletic, but can still use their whole bodies for fun – laughing, giggling and screaming. They have a great time together. Often older children help smaller children. They try to dazzle each other with their ingenious and acrobatic feats.
I like the way that architect explores the transformation of a linear element, thread, into 3-dimensional form. The space was created by using fiber and textile structure. It is fascinating how textile structures yield very different forms from different types of material. The construction technique, the weight of the yarn and gravity work together to create natural forms.
By LIM CHAU YANG 1001438115
