Y'all may not know who Gunnar Birkerts is but I just finished reading a book about Process and Expression in Architecture..
I hate reading, but for some this book had my full attention as I was reading. lol
He has a methodology of ORGANIC SYNTHESIS. ... he talks about how he goes about the form of a building. He states that
"pressures from within and from the outside determine's a building's form."
I know that the inner pressures give spatial or volumentric expression, and there are outside pressures such as context of the region, the terrain, vegetation, climate, and orientation in terms of heat gain and light direction.
With the above said, I still do not understand how do "interior/exterior" pressures actually makes a building's form push or pull?
Do you think the his mythology is somewhat similar to Thom Mayne's... on how he uses forces and vectors to help determine form?
I probably wrote too much, but I have been captivated on the different design methods I have read. lol
be careful of everything you read. What he is talking about is probably simpler than it sounds, try to figure out his own line of inquiry before accepting it, where do his ideas emerge from? I'm not familiar with the book, but this sounds all too familiar.
look at lars spuybroek, early tschumi, and even Borromini's san marco alle quatro fontane
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Y'all may not know who Gunnar Birkerts is but I just finished reading a book about Process and Expression in Architecture..
I hate reading, but for some this book had my full attention as I was reading. lol
He has a methodology of ORGANIC SYNTHESIS. ... he talks about how he goes about the form of a building. He states that
"pressures from within and from the outside determine's a building's form."
I know that the inner pressures give spatial or volumentric expression, and there are outside pressures such as context of the region, the terrain, vegetation, climate, and orientation in terms of heat gain and light direction.
With the above said, I still do not understand how do "interior/exterior" pressures actually makes a building's form push or pull?
Do you think the his mythology is somewhat similar to Thom Mayne's... on how he uses forces and vectors to help determine form?
I probably wrote too much, but I have been captivated on the different design methods I have read. lol
be careful of everything you read. What he is talking about is probably simpler than it sounds, try to figure out his own line of inquiry before accepting it, where do his ideas emerge from? I'm not familiar with the book, but this sounds all too familiar.
look at lars spuybroek, early tschumi, and even Borromini's san marco alle quatro fontane
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