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From: tsai0017@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Brian Tsung-Han Tsai-1)
Subject: what's wrong with...
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 10:05:34 GMT
just want to make a few
comments in response to the second post on the architecture flame...
here's paste of something I had written:
Function and Form
The philosophical, mythical, spiritual, complextual definition and
interrelationship between function and form can be further perplexed by
the relationship of composition and juxtaposition. The interdependency of
shadow and figure as pointed out by R
alph Nelson with the story of Peter Pan, and how they can be thought of as
independent can be used to describe how composition and juxtaposition work
in the relationship of function and form. In "American Gothic", Wood's
chosen subjects: farmer, daughter,
and the carpenter Gothic house each juxtaposed to compose the now
existing form with the function "American Gothic." Wright's composition
of 'house' and 'water fall' which are juxtaposed in their function of
providing the summer retreat for the Kaufmans is now known in their form
"Fallingwater" in Bear Run.
Asking whether form comes after function is like asking whether
juxtaposition recedes composition or composion is more significant than
juxataposition. Which came first, egg or chicken? Which is more
important, bat or the ball? When asking to compa
re the subjects involved in an interrelationship, the question itself
becomes absurd.
Despite Sulllivan's famous 'form follows function' I respectfully disagree
with him and consider the two with equal importance. The same reasoning
is carried to the 'engineer and architect' relation. When in a
cooperation, how then can one consider one profession more important than
the other?
From: tsai0017@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Brian Tsung-Han Tsai-1)
Subject: what's wrong with...
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 10:05:34 GMT
just want to make a few
comments in response to the second post on the architecture flame...
here's paste of something I had written:
Function and Form
The philosophical, mythical, spiritual, complextual definition and
interrelationship between function and form can be further perplexed by
the relationship of composition and juxtaposition. The interdependency of
shadow and figure as pointed out by R
alph Nelson with the story of Peter Pan, and how they can be thought of as
independent can be used to describe how composition and juxtaposition work
in the relationship of function and form. In "American Gothic", Wood's
chosen subjects: farmer, daughter,
and the carpenter Gothic house each juxtaposed to compose the now
existing form with the function "American Gothic." Wright's composition
of 'house' and 'water fall' which are juxtaposed in their function of
providing the summer retreat for the Kaufmans is now known in their form
"Fallingwater" in Bear Run.
Asking whether form comes after function is like asking whether
juxtaposition recedes composition or composion is more significant than
juxataposition. Which came first, egg or chicken? Which is more
important, bat or the ball? When asking to compa
re the subjects involved in an interrelationship, the question itself
becomes absurd.
Despite Sulllivan's famous 'form follows function' I respectfully disagree
with him and consider the two with equal importance. The same reasoning
is carried to the 'engineer and architect' relation. When in a
cooperation, how then can one consider one profession more important than
the other?