Bumble: Post class downtown!! 2/7

We’re going downtown!


After this trip downtown, I felt enlightened. I felt as though I had a great insight that other people who have not been exposed to this knowledge of post modern architecture had. In fact, I went downtown on Friday night to the Magic game and on my way there I passed by the bus station. I guess I never could have gotten the full effect of amnesis until the night time journey. The waves, which are very randomly eclectic next to the building itself, are BLUE! I felt as though they were waves of the ocean. Talk about irony as well… what are waves doing in the middle of downtown Orlando? I was compelled to point out the buildings we visited to all of my friends. I got a bunch of stares but was proud that I could point out the phallic symbol of the courthouse. Also in the courthouse I was able to see the crown. The peaks were lit up like jewels shimmering. The building holds a lot of power in this hegemonically dominantly male society. It could be even borderline symbolic of a king, or tyrannical kingdom. It most definitely holds double meaning which is supposed to infuse a certain feeling when being in the presence of the building.

After pleading with my friends to stop at the Bank of America, I saw the face, the anthropomorphism is very clear in the dark. In fact it reminded me of when I was a little girl and used to look for faces in everything. The most prominent place of finding these scary faces were in cars. The face at Bank of America very much reminded me of the headlights and evil smiles on the grills of the cars. Once you are aware of these anthropomorphic images in buildings, you can not help but to see them everywhere!

I found myself every thinking about post modern architecture in the middle of lacrosse practice. During a lap around the gym I see that the Alfond Sports Center has reoccurring patterns which are reflected and reused all over. If you look at the window panes, you find that they are placed everywhere on the building! Again, I felt compelled to tell my friends, look at how the Alfond Sports Center is postmodern. Hopefully by pointing these out to my friends we can continue spreading the wealth of understanding architecture as more than just buildings.


So thank you for this trip… Also, it was important to take this trip because I did not realize until being in their presence that these buildings can have multiple styles applied.