PetiteEtole, Jencks

It was very interesting to talk about the different styles of architecture. I would never had realized that so much thought and planning went behind the designs. To me a building was just a building, it never represented all these different things we discussed. I'm also very glad we discussed this in class because if we hadn't I would still not know any of these things because I read the reading very carefully and still could not understand all of this. I'm glad we did too because its pretty cool to be able to see the different styles now when I look at buildings. Such as the neoclassicism style which is mostly straight lines. Completely different from the aesthetic art nouveau with it's ornate details flowery aspects. The art deco style is very distinct, but I had never known what to call it. It originated in Germany and consists of lots of squares and curves and there's a lot of it seen in miami. Frank Loyd Wright has created some beautiful architecture that takes this deco style and attempts to make it look natural, as though it has grown out of the earth. Modernism is the clean cut, square style of architecture seen in most metropolitans. Disharmonious Harmony takes as many different styles as possible and tries to fit them together with some form of harmony. Radical Eclecticism puts two completely opposite things together without any attempt at making them mesh. Urbane Urbanism tries to add to the old and make it look like it had always been there. Anthropomorphism gives human characteristics to architecture, such as the house with a face or the building that looks like a boat. Metaphorical anamnesis is when the shape of the building is directly related to what the building is for, such as the donut shop that was in a building shaped like a donut. All of this was very interesting to learn and made me want to go traveling and observe architecture besides all the things I would normally see.