Thursday, February 5, 2009
Weathering/ Shadow/ Memory
In the article "Places" by Natalini, the idea that there can be places that have no memories or history is discussed. Although there are efforts being made to build architecture that can last through time and stand against weathering, I think that the weathering that occurs on a building could possibly be part of the way a place starts to have memories and history connected to it. Do you think this is the case? Or is weathering simply destructive to architecture?
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Weathering is just an understanding of time. I don't think that memories of a buidling begin just because it weathers. Unless the intention of the building was for it to weather, weathering only becomes destructive. Even in cases such as that tomb we talked about in class the other day (I forget its name), I feel that the ideas that the architect depicted were beautiful, but I felt that the tomb was not pleasing to the eye because of the mold and other weathered parts. The only aspects of the tomb that I liked was the yellow tile that outlined the edge and the door that Prof. Willoughby described.
ReplyDeleteI definitely think it depends on the intent of the building. For the most part though, I think that buildings should be designed with weathering in mind...the fact that no matter what, a building is going to weather should be taken into consideration. The design would then be intended to take on weathering, and retire the building gracefully instead of just looking bad.
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