Asyouwish/1/27/09 Structures

While discussing anthropomorphism during class today and being shown the one example of the building with the face, a few more anthropomorphic structures came to my mind. Both structures that came to mind were inspired by the movie Patch Adams. The first Patch Adams structure was created as a joke by Robin William’s character Patch Adams for the visiting gynecologists. He put huge legs on either side of the main entrance thus making the doorway a gynecologist’s specialty. Buildings do not have limbs, people and animals have limbs, and therefore by giving the building legs Patch gave the building anthropomorphic features. Another building in Patch Adams also has anthropomorphic features. In the Patch Adams designs the future Gesundheit Institute at a dinner in the movie by putting nose glasses on a napkin holder. This napkin holder creation is then made into a real building that has a nose, mustache and ears on it. During class today a lot of architectural structures real and fictional came to mind after being shown the different structures in class today. Another fictional structure that came to mind was the Ivory Tower from The Never Ending Story whose structure came to mind when seeing Dubai’s tallest building and the California church by Robert Shuler. It seems all these different types of structures we learned about are not only applicable to the real world but to the world created by Hollywood and the film industries.
However I was able to think of more real structures, which pertained to some of the structural terms we discussed today. The city of Dresden is known for its historically old look, but has had newly added buildings which were created in an old style as to blend in with the old. Therefore the city structure of Dresden could be categorized as Urban. There are a lot of different buildings in the world which are designed in different ways and after today I will be analyzing them more much than I would have liked. It seems the way I look at the world is already starting to change. :)