Meeting 02

In this meeting i elaborated on the book i currently finished : architecture inside out. [which i will write a blog review about so i can keep a list of books]


Richard:
- does not agree much with the architecture inside out book- the main issue of architects who do not pay enough attention to the functional and internal needs of the occupants.
- feel that there are two types of architecture, one that is built by demand and the other by mass production. 
- agrees with the issues of the body and seeing the body as both an object and a subject, that we are not bound by our skin.




for the design:
-he's fine with me having no clue as to where i want to build it, or what i want to build. 
-he suggested a museum of beauty, that beauty is the object in the museum to be shown- then there are rooms of certain beauty? 
-I suggested a selection of beautiful designs, because of the bigness of this subject, i said perhaps i could build a whole lot of things along the way, rather than one design.
-Perhaps i could design numerous random spaces and do three prototypes of each space, one that is viewed to be beautiful based on culture for example, then one based on purpely psychological then a joint one. 


key ideas that emerged:
Alvo Alto
Humanist branch of modernism
Architect's experience is different than that of a man down the street
existential senses
connecting the nodes of existence
POETRY
deconstructivist
TYPOLOGY OF BEAUTY

Meeting 01-response

In response to my current proposal [which won't be writtenly changed for a long time]
:
Thanks Brenda. I think your outline is good and will suffice for your submission today. I think we will need to very quickly start work on clarifying the issue of beauty. I think you should start immediately on an overview of ideas of beauty through the ages, restricting this to perhaps either the western or eastern traditions (otherwise there will be to much to handle). At the same time you need to start your research into the neurophysiology of beauty. In this way you may be able to track the development of beauty as both a cultural and scientific phenomenon. It may be an interesting insight that perhaps a scientific understanding of beauty is of course a cultural one too! (that is, science, and the belief in science being a cultural phenomenon/position?)


- Clarifying the issue of beauty
- Overview the ideas of beauty through the ages 
- Neurophysiology of beauty