Like the poet or an artist, the architect must imagine worlds.. Does not literally have to write poems, although that would be refreshing in all the crap, run-of-the-mill architecture we see today.
You either get it or you don't.. Its like some people who'll never get or appreciate art.
I was long confused about the concept of poetry in architecture.
Then I heard or read some wonderfully simple definition of poetry as the use of language (tropes) to evoke the indescribable (emotions).
From there, it's a short leap to conceive of the use of architectural forms and language in a similar way. (Of course, this is far easier to discuss than to accomplish.)
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poet weds architect
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Why architect need poetic skill? Is it really required? What will be its impact in architecture??????????
There once was an architect from Nantucket...
Aw, c'mon Donna. What's the rest?
++ Donna
poet weds architect
now there's a dual-income couple headed for bankrupture...
[and I, too, want to hear the rest of Donna's limerick]
Like the poet or an artist, the architect must imagine worlds.. Does not literally have to write poems, although that would be refreshing in all the crap, run-of-the-mill architecture we see today.
You either get it or you don't.. Its like some people who'll never get or appreciate art.
accesskb's explanation is spot on. So is citizen's assessment of the couple's financial future.
There once was an architect from Nantucket
who told all the poets to suck it
fixated on Plato
designed a cave that was neato
hexastyle pedimented and Doric.
I was long confused about the concept of poetry in architecture.
Then I heard or read some wonderfully simple definition of poetry as the use of language (tropes) to evoke the indescribable (emotions).
From there, it's a short leap to conceive of the use of architectural forms and language in a similar way. (Of course, this is far easier to discuss than to accomplish.)
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