Very good but I think there’s a little muddiness in the explanation of the progression of historicist Post-Modernism and the current way of dealing with context. Robert Venturi did not advocate for direct copying of the past, the 311 South Wacker Drive building employs Post-Modernism in exactly the same way as the early Post-Modernists such as 550 Madison and Vanna Venturi House. Very cool observation about the tribune tower though 👌 I think Kevin Lynch’s 5 Elements of a City is also crucial to understanding our current view on contextualism which becomes important when you talk about contrasting the context. Definitely enjoyed the vid, looking forward to more 😄😃👌 Something I’m currently interested in is the effect Starchitects are having on the industry where architects are favouring impact in buildings that should rather be more coherent. This is again dissolving identities of cities. That is to say when you employ a Starchitect he/she will usually be working on a ‘Landmark’ building (to quote Lynch) whereas everyone else will be working on the building around the landmark but feel the need to emulate it rather than fit into its surroundings submissively. They’re doing the opposite of what like 311 South Wacker Drive does. It’s a real problem.
Genius loci in the Roman sense has nothing to do with architecture, nowhere does it say that the Romans built taking genius loci into account, as if genius loci were an architectural method (like eurythmy, for example). The concept is taken into account in an aesthetic sense (see Anthony Ashley Cooper - The moralists) at the beginning of the 18th century (see Alexander Pope), then it was extended to gardening/landscaping, not to architecture. After WW1 Nikolaus Pevsner brings back the concept of genius loci to the fore by the fact that it is necessary to rebuild England. Pevsner also extrapolated the concept from the picturesque current to the theory of architecture. You should know that architecture has no way to appear after the context, the order being the following: existential space (in the non-architectural sense) - intention (the intention to make an architectural project) - context (in the sense of the world of the architectural work). There cannot be a world of architecture without opera. It's like you said that there was a world of your own before someone intended something about you. In addition, the idea of context is not invented by Rowe but by Ernesto Nathan Rogers. Goodbye! ^_^
We mention in the video that the Roman concept had nothing to do with architecture, but rather nature. Nevertheless, the name and conceptual basis were appropriated by architects and landscape architects in the 1800s to reference the built environment. There's no doubt that Rogers, along with other architects before and since, have discussed the role context plays in the creation of a building, but it was Rowe that was instrumental in modern usage of the term "contextualism." This is per the architecture historian Charles Jencks that makes the link in his book New Paradigm in Architecture.
Very good but I think there’s a little muddiness in the explanation of the progression of historicist Post-Modernism and the current way of dealing with context.
Robert Venturi did not advocate for direct copying of the past, the 311 South Wacker Drive building employs Post-Modernism in exactly the same way as the early Post-Modernists such as 550 Madison and Vanna Venturi House. Very cool observation about the tribune tower though 👌
I think Kevin Lynch’s 5 Elements of a City is also crucial to understanding our current view on contextualism which becomes important when you talk about contrasting the context.
Definitely enjoyed the vid, looking forward to more 😄😃👌
Something I’m currently interested in is the effect Starchitects are having on the industry where architects are favouring impact in buildings that should rather be more coherent. This is again dissolving identities of cities. That is to say when you employ a Starchitect he/she will usually be working on a ‘Landmark’ building (to quote Lynch) whereas everyone else will be working on the building around the landmark but feel the need to emulate it rather than fit into its surroundings submissively. They’re doing the opposite of what like 311 South Wacker Drive does. It’s a real problem.
Great video
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Genius loci in the Roman sense has nothing to do with architecture, nowhere does it say that the Romans built taking genius loci into account, as if genius loci were an architectural method (like eurythmy, for example).
The concept is taken into account in an aesthetic sense (see Anthony Ashley Cooper - The moralists) at the beginning of the 18th century (see Alexander Pope), then it was extended to gardening/landscaping, not to architecture.
After WW1 Nikolaus Pevsner brings back the concept of genius loci to the fore by the fact that it is necessary to rebuild England. Pevsner also extrapolated the concept from the picturesque current to the theory of architecture.
You should know that architecture has no way to appear after the context, the order being the following: existential space (in the non-architectural sense) - intention (the intention to make an architectural project) - context (in the sense of the world of the architectural work).
There cannot be a world of architecture without opera. It's like you said that there was a world of your own before someone intended something about you. In addition, the idea of context is not invented by Rowe but by Ernesto Nathan Rogers.
Goodbye! ^_^
We mention in the video that the Roman concept had nothing to do with architecture, but rather nature. Nevertheless, the name and conceptual basis were appropriated by architects and landscape architects in the 1800s to reference the built environment.
There's no doubt that Rogers, along with other architects before and since, have discussed the role context plays in the creation of a building, but it was Rowe that was instrumental in modern usage of the term "contextualism." This is per the architecture historian Charles Jencks that makes the link in his book New Paradigm in Architecture.