Datum 구별
Datum 2008 Disteenckshun.
Our introduction to the different levels of architecture. Attending these things looking for answers and some sense of directions is hard. If anything, there's just more confusion for the wannabe archeetek. We're the closest thing you can get to the layman. Hahaha.
Why do local architects pale in comparison with their international counterparts? Not that they aren't impressive, it all looks like they've done their analysis and research, but the international architects have done all those, and then some. There's not much difference in the way of education, but its not gratifying at all to see our representatives going, " I didn't get the question".
Maybe its just Malaysia. Even Kengo Kuma's foray into the Johor Iskandar thingy seemed out of place and standard, as one gutsy guy proffered, there's the certain lack of contextual sensitivity of the project, when compared to his awesomer smaller scale works back in Japan. He's totally got the vernacular study thing going, we've got our quintessential Malay house, they beat Corbu to the pilotis! Why give him the large scale monster =(
The graphics show people relaxing on a grassy foreground with the green( nice try) building looming behind. Welcome to Malaysia, the land of the
Do those solar power and wind turbines and all those sustainable systems really work?
The solar panels and the rainfall recycling? We could use a hell lot of those over here.
The house above is in California, it gets 95% of its electricity from solar panels. That is awesome beyond belief. I don't wanna be naive and all that, but why is TNB still in business? This is Malaysia, the land of theSolar Umbrella House by pugh+scarpa
Architects this late in history deal with not only the question of how to build, but the issue of whether to build at all. Overdevelopment is
Bjarke Ingels (The new idol of aspiring architects everywhere) had this project where they were able to fit thousands of affordable homes onto a giant football field without sacrificing a single portion of the playing area. That was a totally ingenious presentation, if not overly simplistic for a simple audience. We can only hope for such outrageous displays of creativity here, practical or not.
The speaker from the US, Nader Tehrani, was the first architect I've seen
I thought I understood those words but apparently not. Or definitely not.
By the end of it, I had this scene from the recent Hulk playing in my head, where Tim Roth holds that freaky overacting doctor up in the air and refers to the Hulk, "I want to be that. Make me that."
But seeing where I come from, and what we like to do around here-
It was also reminiscent of this analysis of Loo's ornament=crime theory, which I remembered as making a case for ornament as opposed to decoration, in which the true beautiful ornament was the adoration of the joint, etc.
And they briefly discussed this disparity between theoretical and practical architecture, which was only slightly startling because it touched on architecture for the sake of architecture, again, whatever little I understood of it.
But theory is so important, especially when you are a success in the region and you get invited to be speaker at a international level seminar and your presentation comes off looking like a students' when compared to the smooth talking hard thinking professors at Harvard.
Perhaps I didn't glean as much from Datum as I hoped I could, but I loved the difference between the beginning and the end, where we had Dr.Tan Loke Mun start with this practical, pessimistic view of the world, things aren't going to be all fine and dandy as it was in the good old days when we had coke as the real thing, and we ended with the representative of the nouvelle génération, Bjarke Ingels just going all Energizer bunny shouting," The new utopia is possible!", LEGO of the past, we'll put the future right.
Or so it seemed to me.
I just hope we see some real growth soon.And they briefly discussed this disparity between theoretical and practical architecture, which was only slightly startling because it touched on architecture for the sake of architecture, again, whatever little I understood of it.
But theory is so important, especially when you are a success in the region and you get invited to be speaker at a international level seminar and your presentation comes off looking like a students' when compared to the smooth talking hard thinking professors at Harvard.
Perhaps I didn't glean as much from Datum as I hoped I could, but I loved the difference between the beginning and the end, where we had Dr.Tan Loke Mun start with this practical, pessimistic view of the world, things aren't going to be all fine and dandy as it was in the good old days when we had coke as the real thing, and we ended with the representative of the nouvelle génération, Bjarke Ingels just going all Energizer bunny shouting," The new utopia is possible!", LEGO of the past, we'll put the future right.
Or so it seemed to me.
Then we shave it off.
19.7.08
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