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Monday, November 13, 2006
Continued from last time
So what happened to Modernism? I think it died. It had a commitment to destroying what happened before, to make room for the new. An aesthetic of destruction became an inherent part of Modernism...which ran into the second world war...and destruction as a positive became inexcusable.
It lived on as a style, but I think the hope for the "new age" they had hoped for was dead. Post-Modernism realized this lack of hope, but went on to create without hope.
We have a great hope.
It lived on as a style, but I think the hope for the "new age" they had hoped for was dead. Post-Modernism realized this lack of hope, but went on to create without hope.
We have a great hope.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
It seems to me...
Rev Peter Barnes at my church growing up would always write an article in the newsletter with this title, and I have some "it seems to me" thoughts right now.
I have been learning a lot about Modernism in my architectural experience so far. I have been doing a design excercise that started out looking very much like a Mondrian painting of the de Stihl movement of the 20's in the Netherlands and Germany.
The ideas/terms/ethos (ethi?) of Modernism and post-Modernism was never explicitly expressed to me as an undergrad, which I find inexcusible for an English department. Modernism, in a small nutshell, came out of the mechanization of the Industrial Revolution. It came out of the Enlightenment, or Scientific Revolution. The Avante-garde, was a specific group of people who saught not to just make something new and shocking, but new and shocking, because they meant it to move us forward into a time where all men were equal, and there was a great continuum of all ideas, good will, and friendship. The bastions, hopeless traditions and comforts of aristocracy must be destroyed. Le Corbusier, one of the most famous 20th century Architects built one shining white building after another that looked like a ship, taking us into the future. Architecture and art were the vehicles for a new world. They were very passionate, not simply destroyers, but people with a great hope.
They thought that science and machine, technological advance would help set people free. They build everything they could out of pure forms, that alluded to no previous ideas. They built everything out of new materials, concrete, steel, glass. All spaces were open, free, continuous.
I have more to say about this...
Friday, November 03, 2006
This is what I do
I live in an abstract land where we talk a very strange language. I am a gringo, so it goes without saying that it seems a little silly to me. Why be obscure when you could be frank?
Anyhow, I took some pictures of the project that I have been working on for the last six weeks. It looks strange.
And also, Scott Allen has a blog. Trees love wind.
Anyhow, I took some pictures of the project that I have been working on for the last six weeks. It looks strange.
And also, Scott Allen has a blog. Trees love wind.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Breakfast
Saturday, October 28, 2006
kids and straw
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Third Snow
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