kaymac Jencks

When reading this article I couldn't help but think about Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and the protagonist Howard Roark. Was this the type of style Roark was building in? Reports have said that she had based him off of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. That was just one of my observations.

However, what I'm really interested in is what the reading calls "the postmodern trope of anthrompomorphism" which are "ornament and moldings suggestive of the human body (285)." So we're putting more of man in our architecture, literally? Because I know in my art history class we're talking about the Renaissance and how that movement really was all about how man was almost as good as God and how he was capable of fantastic things, which in an essence what Ayn Ran was talking about in her novels.

But with this we're actually incorporating man into buildings. Man is a very graceful figure and is very strong, so it makes sense. So now I've started trying to notice the influence of man's body on our buildings.

Another thing that interested me in this article was about the idea of urban development. But everybody wants a utopian community and the perfect urban area, but that's not possible. Maybe postmodern architecture wants perfection and that's why they want to base some buildings on the human form. Because the ideal human form=perfection.

Finally, I liked the first point this reading made about "disharmonious harmony" and I started thinking about our generation, the "MTV generation" and how we have influenced this style of building. We can't sit still, we need constant camera angles and changes in music or else we get bored with TVs and movies, I know it happens to me. What we're doing is breaking it apart and putting it back together with other pieces and somehow we're creating this harmonious building and object. That doesn't make any sense.