[AUDIENCE]
An appropriate design is one in which it realizes the audience that it is being presented to. The audience has to be kept in mind so that no one is offended or anything isn't read in the wrong way. Design is almost a production, or a creation, to the world. We are the audience for the magnificent pieces of design and architecture of the past and the present. We are also the audience of new creations that people are thinking of daily. In class we have critiques so that we can judge and improve the work of our peers. The best advice is that which comes from others, and by putting our work out there we get constructive criticism. Audience also refers to the way that architecture portrays theatrics. In the Capella Cornaro built by Bernini what makes the piece is the use of light and such theatrics. The statue is lit from behind making the main focus on the dramatic statue in the middle. This new Baroque style that was arising strove for “the fullest possible effects of molded space, manipulated light, brilliant color, and sensuous detail, Barque architects…created an architecture that, increasingly, was concerned predominately with the shaping of space”[1] Baroque style was all about visually pleasing the audience that saw it.
[TRANSITIONS]
A transition is what relates one thing to the next. It is the phase when one thing is leaving and the next is coming in. Transitions are all around us, most we don’t always notice. Night and day, summer and winter, happy and sad, budding of a flower and the blooming of it. Everywhere something is transitioning. There are many transitions in the design process such as between having an idea, and making an iteration. That iteration stage then leads to a final model. There is also a transition between the work I did in the beginning of the year, and to what I am producing now. There are also transitions in the history of design and architecture. One style leads to the next, which is then borrowed from to get to the next period of design. Recently we learned how the renaissance led to the baroque period, which then led to a revolutionary period. There are also smaller scale transitions such as in the Palazzo Medici. Each floor of the building transitioned starting at; business followed by entertaining, and finished with family.
[CITATIONS]
1-Roth pg. 435
2- Zinsser, William. "First, Use Plain Enlish" Yale Alumni Magazine March/April 2009.
3-Roth pg. 376
[REVISIONS]
The best way to get better at anything is to try again and again, and get the most practice as you can. By revising your work you are making it better each time. William Zinsser, an English professor wrote that, “The moral was clear: crafts don't get learned by listening.”[2] To make your work better you must take your previous work and revise it so that you can build on what you already have, but make it that much better. Revision can also come from peers. The opinions of those around you can provide the help needed to make a completely polished work. The church of St. Peters is a wonderful example of revisions done to architecture. Over time many new pieces were added or removed, and the church changed styles to reflect what was predominant at the time. Bramante and Michaelangelo both worked on the church, and when Michaelangelo was finished there were revisions that “would be undertaken by later architects in the Baroque period." [3]
[CHARACTER]
The thing that makes your work stand out is the character that it has. Character is what makes something unique and interesting, something never seen before. It is important to give your work that little thing that makes it better than all the rest. With both design and architecture it is important to put your own character in it. Referencing back to St. Peter’s church, each designer that added to it put a special part of themselves into it. Michaelangelo for example took the work on the dome designed by Bramante, and finished it with his own character added. Character can also refer to a certain style such as baroque. A “baroque space is independent and alive-it flows and leads to dramatic culminations”[4], and this flow is what gives it the character it has. Borromini captured the character of the Baroque period with much success in his churches. When speaking of San Carlino one can see the “special character of the building, a character that would become more common in Baroque architecture”[5] later on.
The thing that makes your work stand out is the character that it has. Character is what makes something unique and interesting, something never seen before. It is important to give your work that little thing that makes it better than all the rest. With both design and architecture it is important to put your own character in it. Referencing back to St. Peter’s church, each designer that added to it put a special part of themselves into it. Michaelangelo for example took the work on the dome designed by Bramante, and finished it with his own character added. Character can also refer to a certain style such as baroque. A “baroque space is independent and alive-it flows and leads to dramatic culminations”[4], and this flow is what gives it the character it has. Borromini captured the character of the Baroque period with much success in his churches. When speaking of San Carlino one can see the “special character of the building, a character that would become more common in Baroque architecture”[5] later on.
[TRANSITIONS]
A transition is what relates one thing to the next. It is the phase when one thing is leaving and the next is coming in. Transitions are all around us, most we don’t always notice. Night and day, summer and winter, happy and sad, budding of a flower and the blooming of it. Everywhere something is transitioning. There are many transitions in the design process such as between having an idea, and making an iteration. That iteration stage then leads to a final model. There is also a transition between the work I did in the beginning of the year, and to what I am producing now. There are also transitions in the history of design and architecture. One style leads to the next, which is then borrowed from to get to the next period of design. Recently we learned how the renaissance led to the baroque period, which then led to a revolutionary period. There are also smaller scale transitions such as in the Palazzo Medici. Each floor of the building transitioned starting at; business followed by entertaining, and finished with family.
[DATUM]
A division, a marker, a definer. A datum is the line that keeps everything organized and orderly. A datum separates the negative with the positive space. Recently in perception and communication we worked on boards(pictures seen below) and we had to make sure there was a clear datum line so that the information and pictures were easy to read. Datum lines also help to enhance a building by adding visual interest.
[WRAP-UP]
Design is a production. It has to have all the makings of such to be complete. There must be character, it is what adds excitement and uniqueness. Secondly, there must be a plot to the story and it must follow an organized pattern, or datum line. Third, it must have transitions from one part to the next, so that it is still unified. When the whole seems complete there must be revisions so that it all works together. And finally, it must be pleasing to the audience it is presented to.
[CITATIONS]
1-Roth pg. 435
2- Zinsser, William. "First, Use Plain Enlish" Yale Alumni Magazine March/April 2009.
3-Roth pg. 376
4-Roth pg. 397
5-Roth pg. 411
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