“Forming and Centering” refers to architectural issues, although these terms can also evoke something of a new-age flavor, as in efforts to “center” one’s life or psyche. Such pursuits, which may involve the paring away of life’s complications in a search for irreducible meanings, actually do have fitting parallels: in the following discussion, much material normally considered basic to architectural theory and practice has been set aside to help reveal some innermost fundamentals. The title may suggest yet another implication to anyone who has worked with clay and a potter’s wheel, wherein “centering” is the specific skill of locating and keeping the clay on the center of the rotating wheel-head. Again, there are relevant implications for architecture, both in terms of this process of cen... (查看原文)
The most elemental Z axis case reaches beyond the confines of the additive approach altogether to one of the most basic possible versions of forming, that of the singular mass floating in reference only to the datum of the ground plane itself. While the romantic image of extension over open space has been indulged in many times by resorting to extravagant cantilevers and spanning elements, this ultimate case would disconnect visually from the ground altogether. Mies’ Farnsworth House seeks this goal (2.57). While it’s conception is popularly conceived to be two superposed, floating horizontal planes, with a third offset plane as a lower terrace, it can also be read volumetrically due to the precisely alignment of the planes and to the worldly realities of reflections, drapes and interior p... (查看原文)
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