Experiment 2 Week 1

The Concepts of Architecture

Personal Research of the 2 architects:

Olson Kundig

Washignton State University Visitor

A space is not constrained by area inside the building, a space is shaped by it

Mexico Residence

Architecture is a movement and it transforms its surroundings

Hong Kong Villa

True serenity can only be experienced when architecture and nature become one

An American Place

A great architecture is always unique, as unique as the nature itself

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center

Speak your words through actions and it will be remembered forever

Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster "Bucky" Ball

Architecture is also about structures that hold them together

The Montreal biosphere

Simplicity is the true measure of complexity

Class Discussion of the 2 architects:

Olson Kundig

Architecture is the intersection between the poetic and the rational

Contradictory objectives; open to environment, yet closed to create privacy

A space is not constrained by area inside the building, a space is shaped by it

Architecture is a movement and it transforms its surroundings

References homes as primitive places

Architecture must be as intimate as a family member

Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you its going to be a butterfly

Love is metaphysical gravity

Ideals of ephemeralisation; "doing more and more with less and less until you can do everything with nothing"

Simplicity is the true measure of complexity

Reorganising the environment for prosperity"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."