Are they totally irrelevant or they have some common points or common oppositions?
Who/which is the most outstanding architect/building of theese two categories according to you ?
They're both highly stylistic, elaborate, decadent, self-indulgent, and expressionistic, so I'd say there's a strong basis for comparison between the two.
I have this paper to do about this subject, and i am asked to show this comparison. Mainly through sketches, or comparing pics, that explain my thoughts.
I havent read a lot about architectural theory, i just started understanding derrida so i 'd appreciate any help.
What are the opposites between them?
Any examples that come to mind that i could compare?
Eisenman and tschumi are the architects i will refer to as deconstructionists.
why not do something different. get the moma decon show catalogue, stare at the gehry images for a good long time and then stare at some carlo maderno for a good long time and figure out how they're different and get past all the cliche views on decon and baroque. i doubt you have the time to read 40 pages of grammatology or to read riegls origins of the baroque or to wrestle with the notion of style in general, but beyond your paper, thats the reading list id recommend. best of luck.
"why not do something different. get the moma decon show catalogue, stare at the gehry images for a good long time and then stare at some carlo"
nice suggestion spike,will do that. I am more focused on eisenman or tschumi or both but i will check theese out.
I am meant to find differences or similarities based on : typology, blueprints, layering, use of space, symmetry, mirrors, or how they react on their surroundings. And how we pass from one to the other.
You are right i dont have the time to read all that and its not so needed since i am meant to write up to 10 pages n concentrate on pictures contrast. So what ideas you have about the above criteria?
hahaha i know i know luckily i have a limit on burning my brain.!
i wont bother with him a lot i have my info on tschumi(basically) and eisenman but still not much on the comparison to baroque..
Great link vado. A tremendous example of the kind of absolute bullshit that passes for architectural thought in universities today. Eisenmann is one of the premier gasbags.
I think there might be potential for an interesting compare-contrast between Borromini's Sant Ivo and some of Eisenman's houses. House III jumps to mind. Sure the man's a dick and then some, but if you have to write about him, I don't recommend that video as research for this paper.
ps. Any Bernini sculpture over a Gehry building any day.
Maybe the way to think about it is in the context of the development of the styles:
Renaissance - Modern Mies
Mannerism - Post-modern classicism Graves
Baroque - De-constructivism Tschumi
Rococo - Expressionism (?) Gehry
Each subsequent development involved the re-working of the elements of the architectural language introduced in the establishing movement.
One might argue that the Po-Mo Classicism period wasn't precisely analogous as it included the suppression of Modernist expression; I would counter that the classicizing trend was ironic, (see: Giulio Romano, Palazzo Del Te). As a Professor once put it, it was "Mod -Arch in drag."
They're both highly stylistic, elaborate, decadent, self-indulgent, and expressionistic, so I'd say there's a strong basis for comparison between the two.
Not nitpicking on gwharton specifically..
But architects generally need to remember that literacy in the West is a 20th-century phenomenon.
Baroque architecture, along with all other offshoots of neoclassicism, has a built in cultural and visual language that communicates a number of ideas, norms and stories through its use of religious iconography, hierarchical representation and secular and or region-specific visual arts.
There's also the spiritual aspect— not necessarily in the organized religious sense— that the builders and dwellers of these types of buildings were extremely superstitious and used architecture as an act of divination. They believed the inclusion or exclusion of various iconography could manipulate the fate and future of the inhabitants and related parties.
So you're suggesting the Rennaissance established Modernism, Mannerism established Post-Modern Classicism, the Baroque established De-constructivism, and Rococo established Expressionism?
So you're suggesting Mies re-worked the Rennaissance and thus Modernism came to be, Graves re-worked Mannerism and Post-Moden Classicism came to be, Tschumi re-worked the Baroque and De-constructivism came to be, and Gehry re-worked Rococo and Expressionism came to be?
So you're suggesting the Rennaissance established Modernism, Mannerism established Post-Modern Classicism, the Baroque established De-constructivism, and Rococo established Expressionism?
no, they're parallel movements in history.
So you're suggesting Mies re-worked the Rennaissance and thus Modernism came to be, Graves re-worked Mannerism and Post-Moden Classicism came to be, Tschumi re-worked the Baroque and De-constructivism came to be, and Gehry re-worked Rococo and Expressionism came to be?
i wouldn't literally suggest that. more like pomo reacted to modernism similar to mannerism to renaissance. you can get out your b.s. and tie anything together ..
ah come on, Q! you of all people know history repeats itself .. like every year there is a January 23, and a January 24, and a January 25, and so on. connections are everywhere, you just have to make the argument (which was the initial post: do decon and baroque have common points and common oppositions? the simplistic answer is 'yes'. now i'm not gonna write the guy[/gal]'s paper so [s]he's gotta dig a little deeper and write about those architectural connections and non-connections).
I saw (via television) history repeat itself the morning of 9-11-2001, with the first tower hit by a plane and then the second tower hit by a plane, and then the second hit tower collapse and then the first hit tower collapse, but, other than that, history actually repeating itself is not a regular or even common occurrence.
The Earth's position relative to the Sun repeats itself every 365.25 day, and when you sort out historical events into 365 individual slots you get calendrial coincidence, and every so often calendrical coincidences have an uncanny similarity, but finding history actually repeat itself is rare.
So, again, the notion of the Renaissance and Modernism or the Baroque and De-constructivism being parrallel movements is a simplistic fiction, or, in other words, a heavy distortion of reality.
"...in essence the Baroque involved: a) a bifurcation of reality and illusion, b) pervasive mirroring (figuratively and literally), and c) reality reenacting its own illusory mirror." De-constructivism isn't really anywhere near that. There are a handful of superficial similarities at best, and the only movement De-constructivism is/was parallel to is what was coeval with it--remember that never was there a time when De-constructivism was the only thing that was going on.
And further regarding "parrallel movements," consider the following:
"What I'm doing is trying to come to an understanding of the practice and manifestation of architecture as it exists today, and part of how I'm doing that is to look at trends both recent and older. I am interested in diversity actually because I have over the last few years become very interested in non-Western architectures. Additionally, I have been compiling a strict chronology of architecture on a complete global scale. Without the usual Western categorization of architectural history, it is very enlightening to collectively see exactly what architectures and styles were executed on this planet at any given time. For example, notice what Gothic cathedrals and what Hindu temples were built at the same time, or the temporal relation between Mayan and Romanesque architectures. Even regionally, look at the incredible diversity of architecture built within all of Europe between 1517 and 1636 when viewing on a year by year basis." (2001.01.27 or 12 years ago 2 days from now)
ps
Reenactment is not the same thing as history repeating itself.
'... but, other than that, history actually repeating itself is not a regular or even common occurrence.'
other than the morning of 9/11 history doesn't repeat? come ON! history repeats all the time, Q. reactions, cycles, trends, etc. etc. it's not always new and there's almost always a precedent in, well, just about everything.
Anyone care to provide some actual examples of history repeating itself? And I don't mean instances where past events are wittingly repeated (by a person or group), nor repeated events that act as a continuation of a special event (like the celebration of a holiday). I mean an instance where history actually repeats itself.
Q: What do you call soup du jour served the next day?
A: Déjà vu.
If you read Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West, you'll find lots of historic examples. The pattern of the decay and implosion of democratic regimes is especially repetitive throughout history. That history used to be very well known before it was suppressed as anti-American about 80 or so years ago. It's one of the main reasons why the Founding Fathers of the USA were so anti-democracy despite their revolutionary tendencies. They were very keen on preventing democracy from taking hold in the US. Of course, they utterly failed to do so.
As for more recent repetitions, the Federal Reserve at present seems to be almost exactly repeating the errors made by first by the Bank of England in the 1920s & 1930s, then the Bank of Japan in the 1980s & 1990s, with predictable results. The only major difference is one of degree: the Fed doing exactly the same things, but lots and lots more of them.
i would not say there is a similarity in type or nature but the similarity could be more in the transition from an awareness of an established tectonic/ formal tradition to a post-tradition hyperawareness; what i mean is that the successful tradition was raised to the level of the subject matter of expression rather than remaining a medium of expression. and along with that, secondary and derivative features became as significant if not moreso. the lines of the renaissance gemetry bound by the completess of their frames, by coherent centripetal force fields. whereafter, the baroque force fields were set against each other forcing lines to slip tangentially between one and the other, opening up the frame. of course not a parallel by nature to deconstructivism and russian constructivism. but... the growth of a paradigm from a syntagm and the unsettling of the tension inherent to the former sensibility that then incur the dynamism of the latter one are not inconceivable as bridging themes. i would say that this is more literally true in the case of deconstructivism; the dynamism was self evident (self signifying, that is) and calculatedly cathartic. however, baroque was obviously much more successfully extensive in domain and in its reign. i think deconstructivism came at a time when we had a very retrospective idea of forcing the "zeitgeist" upon itself. very typical in our then increasingly capitalist world (i dont think it is possible to be increasingly so anymore, after the 80s and 90s of the last century). there are no more actual movements after minimalism and deconstructivism, in my opinion. we now have individual architects and architectural firms. even in music, after atonality and minimalism, there are just composers.
quondam, i was not thinking interiorly of particular projects as much as their puported grouping and that umbrella term formulized by way of eisenman, johnson, wigley and the famous exhibition...whereafter the aesthetics of deconstructivism gleamed as the surface sheen on the dark waters of deconstructionism (where relevant)..or perhaps the other way around? this is why i wrote "zeitgeist" in inverted commas. it was a hyped forced reading spreading like a blot of ink in water.
wanting to adapt a sensibility that did not lie within architecture and resulting in an architecture that speaks of itself and - therefore- forms its own obstacles and formally enhanced with the derivative semiotics of ruptures, skewing, deformation (hence the names "asymptote" and "morphosis") - derived from the fertile tension of russian constructivism and compatible movements.
but then, to take up your challenge...zeitgeist forcing itself upon itself, architecturally (or zeitgeist architecture forcing itself upon itself)...amongst other eisenman projects, the infamous eiseneman house VI that gets in its own way, structurally and therfore literally... the paradoxical deployment of abstractions in a literal 'encryptive' way (the architectural void standing for the voiding of jewry in europe in libeskind's jewish musuem/ void lying at the heart of post-holocaust european jewry - or the zigzag purportedly derived from the structure of a schoenberg opera..(zeitgeist forcing itself upon architecture)...its an interesting route to take; well its an attempt
DEconstructivism and Baroque..
Are they totally irrelevant or they have some common points or common oppositions?
Who/which is the most outstanding architect/building of theese two categories according to you ?
They're both highly stylistic, elaborate, decadent, self-indulgent, and expressionistic, so I'd say there's a strong basis for comparison between the two.
I have this paper to do about this subject, and i am asked to show this comparison. Mainly through sketches, or comparing pics, that explain my thoughts.
I havent read a lot about architectural theory, i just started understanding derrida so i 'd appreciate any help.
What are the opposites between them?
Any examples that come to mind that i could compare?
Eisenman and tschumi are the architects i will refer to as deconstructionists.
Well both are are good so the base of comparison is not good. If you want to really find it out then check google if there are any reports.
shit kid. you got troubles.
why not do something different. get the moma decon show catalogue, stare at the gehry images for a good long time and then stare at some carlo maderno for a good long time and figure out how they're different and get past all the cliche views on decon and baroque. i doubt you have the time to read 40 pages of grammatology or to read riegls origins of the baroque or to wrestle with the notion of style in general, but beyond your paper, thats the reading list id recommend. best of luck.
"why not do something different. get the moma decon show catalogue, stare at the gehry images for a good long time and then stare at some carlo"
nice suggestion spike,will do that. I am more focused on eisenman or tschumi or both but i will check theese out.
I am meant to find differences or similarities based on : typology, blueprints, layering, use of space, symmetry, mirrors, or how they react on their surroundings. And how we pass from one to the other.
You are right i dont have the time to read all that and its not so needed since i am meant to write up to 10 pages n concentrate on pictures contrast. So what ideas you have about the above criteria?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQFEaAUrfAk
"i just started understanding derrida"
Turn back now before it's too late!
hahaha i know i know luckily i have a limit on burning my brain.!
i wont bother with him a lot i have my info on tschumi(basically) and eisenman but still not much on the comparison to baroque..
Great link vado. A tremendous example of the kind of absolute bullshit that passes for architectural thought in universities today. Eisenmann is one of the premier gasbags.
I think there might be potential for an interesting compare-contrast between Borromini's Sant Ivo and some of Eisenman's houses. House III jumps to mind. Sure the man's a dick and then some, but if you have to write about him, I don't recommend that video as research for this paper.
ps. Any Bernini sculpture over a Gehry building any day.
threadkilla, those names don't belong on the same page, let alone in the same sentence.
Maybe the way to think about it is in the context of the development of the styles:
Renaissance - Modern Mies
Mannerism - Post-modern classicism Graves
Baroque - De-constructivism Tschumi
Rococo - Expressionism (?) Gehry
Each subsequent development involved the re-working of the elements of the architectural language introduced in the establishing movement.
One might argue that the Po-Mo Classicism period wasn't precisely analogous as it included the suppression of Modernist expression; I would counter that the classicizing trend was ironic, (see: Giulio Romano, Palazzo Del Te). As a Professor once put it, it was "Mod -Arch in drag."
"Each subsequent development involved the re-working of the elements of the architectural language introduced in the establishing movement."
What exactly is meant by "the establishing movement"?
Are you suggesting that Gehry is a re-working of Tschumi, Tschumi is a re-working of Graves, and Graves is a re-working of Mies?
Time to man the lifeboats.
What exactly is meant by "the establishing movement"?
the establishing movements in rossi's post are renaissance, mannerism, baroque, and roco-coo coo.
Are you suggesting that Gehry is a re-working of Tschumi, Tschumi is a re-working of Graves, and Graves is a re-working of Mies?
no they re-worked the establishing movement (pick any earlier movement and use it to make your argument)
They're both highly stylistic, elaborate, decadent, self-indulgent, and expressionistic, so I'd say there's a strong basis for comparison between the two.
Not nitpicking on gwharton specifically..
But architects generally need to remember that literacy in the West is a 20th-century phenomenon.
Baroque architecture, along with all other offshoots of neoclassicism, has a built in cultural and visual language that communicates a number of ideas, norms and stories through its use of religious iconography, hierarchical representation and secular and or region-specific visual arts.
There's also the spiritual aspect— not necessarily in the organized religious sense— that the builders and dwellers of these types of buildings were extremely superstitious and used architecture as an act of divination. They believed the inclusion or exclusion of various iconography could manipulate the fate and future of the inhabitants and related parties.
So you're suggesting the Rennaissance established Modernism, Mannerism established Post-Modern Classicism, the Baroque established De-constructivism, and Rococo established Expressionism?
So you're suggesting Mies re-worked the Rennaissance and thus Modernism came to be, Graves re-worked Mannerism and Post-Moden Classicism came to be, Tschumi re-worked the Baroque and De-constructivism came to be, and Gehry re-worked Rococo and Expressionism came to be?
So you're suggesting the Rennaissance established Modernism, Mannerism established Post-Modern Classicism, the Baroque established De-constructivism, and Rococo established Expressionism?
no, they're parallel movements in history.
So you're suggesting Mies re-worked the Rennaissance and thus Modernism came to be, Graves re-worked Mannerism and Post-Moden Classicism came to be, Tschumi re-worked the Baroque and De-constructivism came to be, and Gehry re-worked Rococo and Expressionism came to be?
i wouldn't literally suggest that. more like pomo reacted to modernism similar to mannerism to renaissance. you can get out your b.s. and tie anything together ..
But they're really not parrallel movements in [architectural] history, are they?
Such a notion is actually just a fiction. And a very simplistic fiction, at that.
ah come on, Q! you of all people know history repeats itself .. like every year there is a January 23, and a January 24, and a January 25, and so on. connections are everywhere, you just have to make the argument (which was the initial post: do decon and baroque have common points and common oppositions? the simplistic answer is 'yes'. now i'm not gonna write the guy[/gal]'s paper so [s]he's gotta dig a little deeper and write about those architectural connections and non-connections).
I saw (via television) history repeat itself the morning of 9-11-2001, with the first tower hit by a plane and then the second tower hit by a plane, and then the second hit tower collapse and then the first hit tower collapse, but, other than that, history actually repeating itself is not a regular or even common occurrence.
The Earth's position relative to the Sun repeats itself every 365.25 day, and when you sort out historical events into 365 individual slots you get calendrial coincidence, and every so often calendrical coincidences have an uncanny similarity, but finding history actually repeat itself is rare.
So, again, the notion of the Renaissance and Modernism or the Baroque and De-constructivism being parrallel movements is a simplistic fiction, or, in other words, a heavy distortion of reality.
"...in essence the Baroque involved: a) a bifurcation of reality and illusion, b) pervasive mirroring (figuratively and literally), and c) reality reenacting its own illusory mirror." De-constructivism isn't really anywhere near that. There are a handful of superficial similarities at best, and the only movement De-constructivism is/was parallel to is what was coeval with it--remember that never was there a time when De-constructivism was the only thing that was going on.
And further regarding "parrallel movements," consider the following:
"What I'm doing is trying to come to an understanding of the practice and manifestation of architecture as it exists today, and part of how I'm doing that is to look at trends both recent and older. I am interested in diversity actually because I have over the last few years become very interested in non-Western architectures. Additionally, I have been compiling a strict chronology of architecture on a complete global scale. Without the usual Western categorization of architectural history, it is very enlightening to collectively see exactly what architectures and styles were executed on this planet at any given time. For example, notice what Gothic cathedrals and what Hindu temples were built at the same time, or the temporal relation between Mayan and Romanesque architectures. Even regionally, look at the incredible diversity of architecture built within all of Europe between 1517 and 1636 when viewing on a year by year basis." (2001.01.27 or 12 years ago 2 days from now)
ps
Reenactment is not the same thing as history repeating itself.
'... but, other than that, history actually repeating itself is not a regular or even common occurrence.'
other than the morning of 9/11 history doesn't repeat? come ON! history repeats all the time, Q. reactions, cycles, trends, etc. etc. it's not always new and there's almost always a precedent in, well, just about everything.
"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot." - Mark Twain
"History repeats itself, first as tradgedy, second as farce." -- Karl Marx
Anyone care to provide some actual examples of history repeating itself? And I don't mean instances where past events are wittingly repeated (by a person or group), nor repeated events that act as a continuation of a special event (like the celebration of a holiday). I mean an instance where history actually repeats itself.
Q: What do you call soup du jour served the next day?
A: Déjà vu.
Anyone care to provide some actual examples of history repeating itself?
crazy people making assassination attempts on public figures
Military empires (Rome, USA).
If you read Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West, you'll find lots of historic examples. The pattern of the decay and implosion of democratic regimes is especially repetitive throughout history. That history used to be very well known before it was suppressed as anti-American about 80 or so years ago. It's one of the main reasons why the Founding Fathers of the USA were so anti-democracy despite their revolutionary tendencies. They were very keen on preventing democracy from taking hold in the US. Of course, they utterly failed to do so.
As for more recent repetitions, the Federal Reserve at present seems to be almost exactly repeating the errors made by first by the Bank of England in the 1920s & 1930s, then the Bank of Japan in the 1980s & 1990s, with predictable results. The only major difference is one of degree: the Fed doing exactly the same things, but lots and lots more of them.
i would not say there is a similarity in type or nature but the similarity could be more in the transition from an awareness of an established tectonic/ formal tradition to a post-tradition hyperawareness; what i mean is that the successful tradition was raised to the level of the subject matter of expression rather than remaining a medium of expression. and along with that, secondary and derivative features became as significant if not moreso. the lines of the renaissance gemetry bound by the completess of their frames, by coherent centripetal force fields. whereafter, the baroque force fields were set against each other forcing lines to slip tangentially between one and the other, opening up the frame. of course not a parallel by nature to deconstructivism and russian constructivism. but... the growth of a paradigm from a syntagm and the unsettling of the tension inherent to the former sensibility that then incur the dynamism of the latter one are not inconceivable as bridging themes. i would say that this is more literally true in the case of deconstructivism; the dynamism was self evident (self signifying, that is) and calculatedly cathartic. however, baroque was obviously much more successfully extensive in domain and in its reign. i think deconstructivism came at a time when we had a very retrospective idea of forcing the "zeitgeist" upon itself. very typical in our then increasingly capitalist world (i dont think it is possible to be increasingly so anymore, after the 80s and 90s of the last century). there are no more actual movements after minimalism and deconstructivism, in my opinion. we now have individual architects and architectural firms. even in music, after atonality and minimalism, there are just composers.
Here's a twist from 2007.05.10: "History has a way of interpolating itself."
tammuz, are there any de-constructivist projects that you see demonstrating a forcing [of] the "zeitgeist" upon itself?
quondam, i was not thinking interiorly of particular projects as much as their puported grouping and that umbrella term formulized by way of eisenman, johnson, wigley and the famous exhibition...whereafter the aesthetics of deconstructivism gleamed as the surface sheen on the dark waters of deconstructionism (where relevant)..or perhaps the other way around? this is why i wrote "zeitgeist" in inverted commas. it was a hyped forced reading spreading like a blot of ink in water.
wanting to adapt a sensibility that did not lie within architecture and resulting in an architecture that speaks of itself and - therefore- forms its own obstacles and formally enhanced with the derivative semiotics of ruptures, skewing, deformation (hence the names "asymptote" and "morphosis") - derived from the fertile tension of russian constructivism and compatible movements.
but then, to take up your challenge...zeitgeist forcing itself upon itself, architecturally (or zeitgeist architecture forcing itself upon itself)...amongst other eisenman projects, the infamous eiseneman house VI that gets in its own way, structurally and therfore literally... the paradoxical deployment of abstractions in a literal 'encryptive' way (the architectural void standing for the voiding of jewry in europe in libeskind's jewish musuem/ void lying at the heart of post-holocaust european jewry - or the zigzag purportedly derived from the structure of a schoenberg opera..(zeitgeist forcing itself upon architecture)...its an interesting route to take; well its an attempt
And I'd say a quite satisfactory attempt.
As to "i dont think it is possible to be increasingly so anymore..." perhaps the Zeitgeist has been subsumed by the continuum.
"Haven't you heard, Zeitgeist is so yesterday!"
--über œuvred e suicidal 2007.06.22