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Form Follows Function
Saturday, July 01, 2006
I guess I should get down to reviewing the project that has been up on my deviantART since aeons ago...
First project in architectural design this year, also took the least effort to complete... wish other projects were less stressing like it. The objective: triggering a desire for architecture to a regular person by means of a poster with a quote by a famous architect on an A2 sized sheet. Easy peasy.
'Form follows function' quoted by Louis Sullivan concords with his belief in modern architecture. (Modern in architectural terms is defined as minimalistic plain looks - often results in ugly boring buildings). Of all the quotes to choose I picked the hardest and one I disagree with...
At any rate, during the whole duration of the creation process, my tutor seriously gave me hell for a number of reasons.
1. He's a postmodernist
2. He's intimidating
3. I was too defensive (I intimidated him...)
Ugh, I'll keep my tutor stories for another day. Anyway, the poster was meant to be simple with a simple floor plan shaped after an eagle (eagle was given function to fly and form came after get it?) so you get this whole quote - architecture link going on. And if you're wondering how I got those edges so sharp with spray paint I had to tape all the edges round it with masking tape including the ones on the eagle. I actually had to do that twice since my tutor 'hinted' I should change my design slightly. Yes I'm mad, and you'll find with my later projects I get madder.
Come crit time (first crit with that) my tutor STILL disagreed with me (after ALL my ramblings) and the other tutor just didn't get it... LIKE WTF IT'S SIMPLE!!! To keep it short it wasn't a nice crit... then again, all crits (except one :) stay tuned for that) really suck.
Stuff I learnt in this project:
Never do something you don't believe in
Never disagree with your tutor unless your 100% sure you can justify it (even then it's still safer to just bow and nod)
Always find fault in your own work no matter how ridiculous
Spray paint + masking tape rocks
About Me
The uber cool author of this site is a student at Victoria University of Wellington, is studying architecture, loving every minute of it, and loves drawing as much as he loves computers... and coffee. His goal - getting into 2nd year architecture.
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