BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS) IN ARCHITECTURETHEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM (ARC61303/ARC2224)SYNOPSIS: REACTION PAPER (MARCH 2015) [5 MARKS]

NAME: Garnette Dayang Robert ID: 0315491LECTURER: Mr. Shen Fei TUTORIAL TIME: 4PM-6PMSYNOPSIS NO: 3 (GROUP B) READER TITLE: The Geometry Of Feeling

AUTHOR: Juhani Pallasmaa

The reading of ‘The Geometry of Feeling’, by the author, Juhani Pallasmaa mentioned that architecture is

becoming a field of technology. More of a discipline which is fully determined by its own rules and value

systems.

Juhani discussed the matters of the advancement of modern science which is split into two that is

“Elementatism”, viewing dominant in the theory, reading and practice of art and architecture, and

“Reductionism”, the minimalist contact to architecture. An example like the point she uses which was the

ideology taught by Bauhaus School, the architecture is taught and analysed as a play with form combining

various visual elements of form and space. It helps us stimulates our visual sense. She then gave a question to

ponder on which was, “Are elements of a building ( walls, windows, doors ) real units of the architectural

effect?”. To me, these elements, no matter how small they might be, is the one of the most powerful ways to

help humans experience the architectural space. The author also mentioned how the occupants gives soul to a

building through the interactions it has with its them. Its not just by form and structure but by the experience

that the people have with the building, the interaction and feeling with the building permits us to appreciate and

understand its function and purpose. A reason example can be one of the design of Zaha Hadid, where she

designed the Vitra Fire Station in Germany, where it was suppose to be for the Fire Station but it ended up

being a museum because it didn’t serve its inhabitants. The author describes this as a “basic vocabulary”, a

basic understanding of the world around us that serves to inform us about the reality to identify the traits of a

building, by knowing what sort of sign to look out for.

The architecture of imagery, the artistic dimension of a work of art does not lie in the actual object, but it exists

only in the consciousness of the observer. It’s not the form, but the images transmitted by the forms that give it

meaning. That’s what I have learned when reading this passage.

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