Graham, 9/18/09

I really enjoyed the reading for Thursday, and I thought that the architecture that we looked at in class really helped me to understand what Jencks was talking about with disharmonious harmony…etc.
I never really looked at architecture this way before, and the fact that I went to many of these places that he showed on the overhead, it really made me think that I need to appreciate architecture that I see and notice the work that has been put into it.
I now see that I did not understand the reading fully, I focused my pre-post on Urbane urbanism, and thought that Jencks was trying to say that we try to combine too many ideas into one building (making the building have multiple uses) but I found out that Urbane urbanism is something that is extremely popular in Colorado, Florida and California. The idea of it is to be urban and condensed, but appear that it has been there forever. For example, Baldwin Park and Celebration. Now that I think of it, this occurs so often with the new apartments and subdivision that are being built.
I also thought the other slides we looked at were interesting too. The buildings that looked like faces was so odd to me. I have never seen a building that looked like this. This also went along with the rabbit corkscrew that is sold at Target. They are beginning to give living being features to every day products.
Anamnesis: Den Kub was actually inspired by a rubix cube, and I thought that this building was really fun to look at.
I think that Thursday’s class was very beneficial, and it made the reading extremely clear to me, and cleared up the misconceptions I had when I was reading. I really liked this topic.