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P07: Taboo and Transgression: Architecture & Desire
The Pleasure of Architecture.
For generations, architects who aimed to experience pleasure in architecture were considered decadent. Architecture conservations of politic, moral and social have restricted the way of architecture which challenges our notion of taboo and transgression. Fragments of geometry, mask, bondage, excess and eroticism are all to be considered as pleasure of architecture not only within the reality of ideas but also in the reality of spatial experience.
01: A double pleasure reminder.
The pleasure of space and the pleasure of geometry. It is a form of experience which cannot be put into words - the presence of absence while the latter is the pleasure of concept which being governed by proportion and guided by rule and compass. The two are well complimenting each other in order to achieve the pleasure of architecture.
02: Gardens of pleasure.
A combination of both architectural elements and orders which served as the reminder of reasons. Gardens also often reflect the history of the cities where for example; Renaissance gardens were applied to the squares and colonnades of Renaissance cities. Gardens are the result of experimenting indescribable architecture and order. Gardens merge the sensual pleasure of space with the pleasure of reason.
03: Pleasure and necessity.
From the point of view of utility which close related to the term of necessity, architecture provides shelter to guards man's health, protects their property and works only for safety, repose and good order of civil life. But to doubt the necessity of architecture in this generation or future, the necessity may as well non-necessity because of the financial dependency. For example, if man become richer, the necessity will increase. Soon, non-necessity may as well describe as necessity because of the financial ability.
04: Metaphor of order - bondage.
The game of architecture is an intricate play with rules that one may accept or reject. Bondage which is also constraint in design may as well become an order to a new design. The more constraints, the possibility of reaching pleasure in architecture is greater.
05: Rationality.
The classical vocabulary of architecture is form of bondage. Similar with the previous fragment, the bondage somehow is the order. Treating classical elements as fragmented and decaying symbols, extreme of irrationality may becomes rationality.
06: Eroticism.
Eroticism does not mean simple the pleasure of the senses. Eroticism is not the excess of pleasure but the pleasure of excess. The pleasure of architecture contains and dissolve both mental constructs and sensuality. Not by space or concepts but the junction between both.
07: Metaphor of seduction - the mask.
Illusion creates seduction, seduction creates pleasure. By describing facade as an architectural mask, it creates imagination and illusion. Thus, curiosity about the reality is created. Mask seduce man's wish to read the reality behind.
08: Excess.
The pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed. I somehow agree with this statement. Architecture is interesting when it masters the art of disturbing illusions.
09: Architecture of pleasure.
The architecture of pleasure lies where concept and experience of space coincide, culture of architecture deconstructed endlessly and rules are transgressed. If the real significance of architecture lies outside utility or purpose and not necessarily aimed at giving pleasure, it is perverse.
10: Advertisement for architecture.
Architecture is a function of both sensual experience and rational concepts. Therefore, it cannot be experienced through paper space. It is through language, giving hints behind the architecture. Architecture cannot be felt through drawings and words. Its hiding and this unveiling is part of the pleasure of architecture that to be experienced.
11: Desire / fragments
Fragments are visible, both real and virtual. They are in between. Desire is never seen, it remained constant.
Desire creates fragments and fragments lies between desire. These two cant be separated in order to create the pleasure of architecture.
* Seriously, I have no idea what I have wrote about @@
Yet Another Day ; Monday, August 30, 2010
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