many thoughts are running through my puny head right now. i just returned from a very pleasurable but very short visit to studio (i had to return the rented graduation gown which i never wore. bummer); it was real nice to see peeps like ames ailing magda pia and michelle, where's viet? however, what was also pleasurable was the sight of many exciting structures in the processes of being constructed by the students. the exercise i believe is to design a structure that can withhold the load of a brick. though i'm rather skeptical of several half-done models i must say i was impressed on the whole. one in particular (which i found out to belong to ames and dennis chiok chiok chiok aka michael jackson/mickey mouse) caught my attention; it was experimental, in the sense it seemed to push the limits of what is considered a tower, an arc, and best of all, gravity. very powerful language being played here! i likie... please show us images when its finished!
moving on, i managed to read through d's post, as well as visit umbau online and that's where these thoughts i'm having came rushing. i totally agree with d's comments and am looking forward to them having completed their formation. one particular comment d made was regarding the concern he has of umbau possibly charging on with too much agression that might result in stepping 'backward' instead of 'forward'. this brings back memories of tutors telling me not to be too presumptious and dictative in my work on many accounts. my stance is as always. fight for what you believe in, if you know by fact from substantiative research that what you believe in would contribute to the greater Good such that you can offer somewhat to the society. the context in which architecture operates is changing every second as we speak. thus i therefore support umbau in their no pretense of perfect assimilation.
in other words,
understand the society of tomorrow
see your work as important
push for what you believe in (don't let skeptics bring you down!)
~
on a lighter note, when shall we have our next "hi my name is sio and i'm an alcoholic" session? keeping in mind that we are the alcoholic association, not annonymous.
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
neverending rendition of 'you got that loving feeling' stuck in my head courtesy of Class 95. doesn't help that i only know 1 line.
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in a recent interview for his island-design in Mur River, Austria, Vito Acconci remarked that his "biggest fear is that architecture is necessarily a kind of totalitarian activity, a kind of prison, in that when you design a space you're probably designing people's behavior in that space".
from how i look at it, consciously or not, Acconci actually made a distilled point that necessarily applies to a greater issue at hand. i can't find the right words for it now, but if you contemplate on it, you'd see how that this attributed control lends itself to every step of our work -- from our manifesting a vision, our little decisions in the design process, to the finality of built forms; every step adds to a sum of things far-reaching and behaviour-changing than we can ever imagine.
for those interested, i got the quote off this article on Acconci's work:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/style/tmagazine/TM1903190.html?oref=login
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