Sunday, April 1, 2007

How Do I Know When Silicon Is Dry

via symbols

Here's my comment 'The Way of the symbols'

Today necessarily go along via symbols, at least in terms of communication, as new languages \u200b\u200bare highly symbolic. The steps in this way is shorter and the language barriers they fall away.

is natural to wonder what the bond between the new levels of communication architecture, which certainly can not ignore the changes.

Functionalism perhaps has never been in crisis because it has never been totally denied. It has not been overcome in the sense that the building should be designed not perform functions, but for the fact that the feature has been completely incorporated, absorbed, taken for granted in the same word 'architecture' is already included that of 'function'. Just as obviously, that of 'form'.

But there is a quid more that characterizes the architecture of the computer era, called by the new communication.

The architectural work has to communicate.

But what?

Here lies the crux of the matter.

Every job, the result of conscientious analysis, is dictated by the place, from her relationship with the city, from wanting to be a symbol, it must tell us who he is, what it represents, which actually belongs to. There will be no more movements, or avant-garde schools of thought to dictate the rules. But it will be 's environment in the broad sense: the architecture is bound to the place, its inhabitants, to the thousands of factors that converge in a city and, above all, expresses them in a visible manner. I want to play that

'new monumentality' that has transformed the Guggenheim Bilbao in a cathedral in this way.

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