Daisy, 9/20

Last class I really enjoyed looking at the architect visuals. It was helpful to associate the meaning of a word with a picture. In my pre-class post I had talked about Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture and that I thought it could be applied to Jencks’s article, I was really excited when Dr. Rog used it in class as an example.
A comment that I received on my pre-post blog was to think about how Jencks’s definitions could apply to more than just art, but society. If you think about it, just like art, our society has progressed along the same way. During the Greek and Roman times when the Parthenon was built, society was very symmetrical like the architecture. The men worked and the women took care of the home, children, and their husbands. As architecture became more ornate, so did society. The women’s rights movement allowed women to do more than just be stay-at-home moms. Society became more diverse as revolutions happened and people going against what was consider the norm. Now thinking of our society in the modernism era, technology plays a large part in both art and other aspects. I-phones, Blackberry’s, and computers dominate our lives. Everyone today is connected, and if you’re not than you are not keeping up with the times. Jencks’s applies the term disharmonious harmony to an architectural building that has many different aspects but they all fit together. I think many people today have different aspects that make up their lives but somehow they all fit together. For example, a woman might be a lawyer, participate on her child’s school board, be an active member on her local hospital’s women’s board, and also be a triathelete. While the woman has a main occupation, she also has many aspects of her life that all go together to make her unique, like many people in our society. Just like multivalence architecture, people have many different sides to them. Like Habermas talked about, we live in a hyperstimulated modern culture where everyone specializes in multi-tasking.