another six degrees of Seperation
1.Fight club (film)
2.Butter (Food Item)
3.Bionic Hand (technology)
4.The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles Of Color
Is there a way architecture can make things right I believe so. Its always a good to think about how we can change the environment we live in. Through rigorous thought and analysis we can be like the chef who takes the unique ingredients to make a tasteful dish.
What i mean by ingredients of a recipe relating to architecture I'm saying something like "what we talkin bout fiction or we talkin bout fact." No but really we look at precedence to get a good idea of how to take certain elements of a building to create a new piece of architecture. For example butter is used in many foods but i wouldn't go and put butter in coffee. I can only imagine how that would taste it has no context to my taste buds the same way that an igloo wouldn't work in Miami. Good Architecture has a distinct connection to were it resides.
For me the housing projects being proposed by Brad Pitt's "Making It Right" are interesting yes to New Orleans and are something new combined with a historical city. Is this progress being done by Brad just for his own acclaim? No I think not. It seems to be very important for him to give back and help rebuild this community. Mr. Pitt is just not trying to create a violent group of people like the character Tyler Durden in the cult classic "Fight Club", he is trying to help rebuild a city devastated by hurricane Katrina. The only thing that concerns me is that the homes are not the vernacular homes of the area.
Yes these homes are there to help give homes back to residents in new orleans ninth ward, yet is there a way to help keep some of the distinct characteristics of the city. I believe for the homes to have that same type of character designers will have to have the same intent as the builders who helped create the original homes. It is not like the residents of the 9th ward dont have a feel of there neighborhood. Its not like they have a bionic hand and they can't tell the difference between rabbit fur and chicken feathers. Maybe we should go about designing something like a bionic hand that moves and acts like a hand but still has a similar structure to its human hand. Maybe the process of the architect needs to be changed? Should we change how we think about architecture as students? Designers? I will leave that question for you to answer. The process of the architect should not be forgotten but it should be edited. We can't go and forget the past we have to Remember it and learn from it. We have to be much more than the exclusive people written about in Gary B mills Novel The Forgotten people. The novel tells the story of Marie Thereze Coincoin a slave who eventually becomes free and due to her intimate long term relationship with Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer has many children. Her children buy land around ilse breville. These homes are of vernacular to the french culture of that time and they represent something that is true to what a home is. So maybe what this "making it right" initiative Brad should try to help recreate some homes that have the same type of character as the old homes and buildings. I especially think we have to be aware that what was there before may have not been as great as we percieve it to be. Sometimes the best of the past is forgotten because something better comes along that covers it up. So what can we do to preserve history, Culture,and still let the Economy prosper and have Affordable homes with architecture? Where is the boundary?
What i mean by ingredients of a recipe relating to architecture I'm saying something like "what we talkin bout fiction or we talkin bout fact." No but really we look at precedence to get a good idea of how to take certain elements of a building to create a new piece of architecture. For example butter is used in many foods but i wouldn't go and put butter in coffee. I can only imagine how that would taste it has no context to my taste buds the same way that an igloo wouldn't work in Miami. Good Architecture has a distinct connection to were it resides.
For me the housing projects being proposed by Brad Pitt's "Making It Right" are interesting yes to New Orleans and are something new combined with a historical city. Is this progress being done by Brad just for his own acclaim? No I think not. It seems to be very important for him to give back and help rebuild this community. Mr. Pitt is just not trying to create a violent group of people like the character Tyler Durden in the cult classic "Fight Club", he is trying to help rebuild a city devastated by hurricane Katrina. The only thing that concerns me is that the homes are not the vernacular homes of the area.
Yes these homes are there to help give homes back to residents in new orleans ninth ward, yet is there a way to help keep some of the distinct characteristics of the city. I believe for the homes to have that same type of character designers will have to have the same intent as the builders who helped create the original homes. It is not like the residents of the 9th ward dont have a feel of there neighborhood. Its not like they have a bionic hand and they can't tell the difference between rabbit fur and chicken feathers. Maybe we should go about designing something like a bionic hand that moves and acts like a hand but still has a similar structure to its human hand. Maybe the process of the architect needs to be changed? Should we change how we think about architecture as students? Designers? I will leave that question for you to answer. The process of the architect should not be forgotten but it should be edited. We can't go and forget the past we have to Remember it and learn from it. We have to be much more than the exclusive people written about in Gary B mills Novel The Forgotten people. The novel tells the story of Marie Thereze Coincoin a slave who eventually becomes free and due to her intimate long term relationship with Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer has many children. Her children buy land around ilse breville. These homes are of vernacular to the french culture of that time and they represent something that is true to what a home is. So maybe what this "making it right" initiative Brad should try to help recreate some homes that have the same type of character as the old homes and buildings. I especially think we have to be aware that what was there before may have not been as great as we percieve it to be. Sometimes the best of the past is forgotten because something better comes along that covers it up. So what can we do to preserve history, Culture,and still let the Economy prosper and have Affordable homes with architecture? Where is the boundary?
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James, I agree we need to develop homes in the regional vernacular of LA. Many of these modernist structures are complete syntax error to the surrounding neighborhoods. They cause a lapse of history identity and culture.
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