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1. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS) IN ARCHITECTURE
THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM
(ARC61303/ARC2224)
SYNOPSIS: REACTION PAPER (JUNE 2017)
Name: Toh Kean Hou ID No.: 0319575
Lecturer: Nicholas Ng Khoon Wu Tutorial Time:
Reader/Text Title: The Geometry of Feeling a
Look at the Phenomenology of Architecture
Synopsis No: 4
Author: Juhani Pallasmaa
The changes ofarchitecture have raised up differentissues toward modernism, the inconsistency ofbuilding
forms design have bring in different purpose or feelings to us. Bring in all the fancy form mighthave a richer
idiom butwhy is it bringing away the feeling that old houses or even an unpretentious farm that they have
provided all the while, which is the sense offamiliarity and pleasure. The changes has broughtus into a
debate where the new type ofbuilding should contain numerous writings of theory and such, leading the
recentwriters to question the cultural buildings due to the lack ofarchitecture, viewing pointmightnot be the
same as the cultural philosophy. As architecture has turned into a specialistprofession, the architects have
slowly driving away from its intentional background, which make them come outwith different rules and
value systems. This have lead us into form are more important than the experience ofarchitecture, making
us pay more attention to the forms and geometry than the experience or the symbol thatlies behind the
buildings. The education ofthe architecture have also change since, we are thought to be more focus on the
structural form ofa building instead ofthe experience and also striving consciously to depict and articulate
the sphere ofour consciousness, this strive us further away from the artistic route. The physical appearance
of a building doesn’tspeak artbut the images transmitted by the forms and the emotional forces that they
carry do. The essence ofartin architecture will not be carry out if the criticism and teaching moving in the
wrong direction. The language ofart speaks the soul ofthe building without it, it would just be a
meaningless oriented geometries. Architects are supposed to create the images and feelings ofthe people
who live in in them. The phenomenology ofarchitecture is not just the looks itshould be able to experience
it through architecture feeling in contrast to analysis ofthe physical proportions and properties ofthe
building or a stylistics frame of reference. A building should have its own soul and be able to have itown
personality. Architecture has also spread outto other branches ofart such as poetry, novel writing, film and
so on which will also bring outmore aboutthe artistic in the building. Architects could have different
principles based on their memory images; this will lead them having their own professional approaches of
designs. Ifone focusing on justthe exterior the design will notbe able to have the own soul and tell stories
to people and these feelings or experience should be able to connectthe people soul with the building, a
symbol ofhuman existence and itwill representits builder and proclaims his absence.Uniqueness will play
an important role for the architectural experience; this will leave a deeper memory for others. The quality of
architecture is to be able to awake the imagination in us, besides a good architecture is to create the ideal
clientfor the commission athand. A good architecture should experience our whole physics and mental
receptivity, the language ofart can be interpreted In many ways and make our consciousness shiftfrom one
to another. Speaking ofwhich having a good design is to have a good contentin term ofdesign making the
spaces seems more useful which will guide us into a better design
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