Jiggy 2/8

Our trip to downtown Orlando yesterday really illustrated alot of the concepts in class more clearly. It was interesting to have a first hand look at the techneques used in postmodern architechure to show creativity. I had never took a close look at the Orange County court house, never had to go in it yet, and was surprized at the varying styles used. I was perticualy interested in the shapes and design of the windows in the tower portion of the building. As Walt Disney did with his cindalella castle the designers made more windows then floors to show height. This illusion makes the building seem twice as tall and more grand. The Bank of America building showed alot of other concepts that were clear and some disguised. Clearly the building was multivalenced with its intented outside frame, but other concepts such as Urbane urbanism were more discrete and harder to find. I saw the outside patio section as urbane urbanism with its resturant and stores, this was also seen at the court house buildings. Overall the trip downtown greatly improved my sence of the concepts that we were learning in class. Now I will able to more clearly observe postmodern architechture and analyse its importance to the surroundings.