Sunday 24 April 2011

Baroque: Who baroque the rules?

From the most previous class, we explored the world of the "baroquen". it is clear that the history has been repeating itself over and over again - one period of new invention of style then coming with it, the period of deformation, contradicting, rebelling the previous idea.


To clarify my statements, the first example would be Modernism and is enemy, Post Modernism. While Mies was experiencing the pure geometric forms made out out of the factory made materials- glass, steel, concrete and stucco, the UN studio broke the rule (international style) by creating Villa NM.


http://www.e-architect.co.uk/chicago/farnsworth_house.htm


http://archidose.blogspot.com/2008/02/un-studios-villa-nm-destroyed-in-fire.html


Absurdly, the form is an extruded box with twisted point in the middle and curved surfaces. Though, it is also wrapped with a taut skin like Mies's creations, the skin is made differently of earth -coloured spray- on concrete and mirrored glass.

The similar way of rebelling is approached by Baroque architects- deriving from the disobedient thought of the new style, in this case, the Renaissance. On clear example is Bramente's Tempietto and Michelangelo's buildings. The perfect symmetry and the ideal depiction of Vitruvien ideology is baroque. There are uses of animated figures, bending and distorting of forms creating a play in perspective. Life is added in Michelangelo's architecture. Walls and facades became places for expression like the Church of St. Vincent for example.


http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/architecture/style_level4.php?area=0&ext=.jpg&id=262&object=168&parent=257

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/artwork/michelangelo-buildings6.htm