As time passed, many things has grown up as well as building that came up with different structure. I am sure that everyone have been impressed once in a life time when seeing a big massive building which there are many of them in nowadays.
Of course, the structure, form and the size, are the best things that could give attractiveness to people who saw. But for me, I am totally agree with Rem Koolhaas that the oversized and large scale building sometimes created a 'Junk Space', and also difficult to experience and get the essential thing the architects are trying to express to you. Sometimes it is hard to control in terms of light, sound, or even work and detail of building. Also, when thinking in about the concern of global warming, these huge buildings are destroying the earth we live, for example, material like steel, concrete, and the use of electricity of the building would increase.
For me, i think architects in nowadays must concern about global warming and create architecture that won't harm the nature. They should set the limitation of how the size of space of the building should be and 'Junk space' won't happen so people could use the space usefully.
Expressionism is an architectural movement that developed in Europe during the first decades of 20th century. It seems like Modernism and Expressionism were developed nearly in time. Somehow, in Modernism, form follow function. In the opposite way, in Expressionism, function follow form. Many architects in now a days have their own style in designing and creating architectures which their style and form are very complex and futuristic form. Yes, their style is Expressionism.
Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry is one of the famous architecture who involved in Expressionism period. He is a Canadian American architecture who won Pritzker Prize award. Most of his building become tourist attractions and outstanding in form of futuristic and with a very curvy complex structure that when i firstly saw, I can't imagine how complexity the plan and the structure is. His well known architecture are Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Walt Disney concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, Dancing House in Prague and more.
Disney Concert Hall
Frank Gehry's current home
One thing I like about Frank Gehry's architecture is the way he made his building become outstanding and very attractive from the context around, for example, Dancing House in Prague. This building has a very curvy and unusual shape that twisted like this building were dancing. If you compare this building to the context around, you'll find out how much this building attract you.
Rem Koolhaas or Remment Lucas Koolhaas is a Dutch architect who is the founder partner of OMA, architecture company that currently based in Rotterdam, Natherlands. As his father was a novelist, critic, and screenwriter, Rem Koolhaas became a journalist and the film maker at the early of his career life. Koolhaas first studied scriptwriting and produced 'The White Slave' in 1969 with his partner and then was a journalist for the Haagse Post before started to studied in the area of Architecture in London. In 1975, Koolhaas founded the office together with his partners and later joined by one of his students, Zaha Hadid, famous female architect who achieved Pritzker Prize award. Here, in the early work of his career life, started the inspiration of his work from post modernism architecture and produce architecture in his own style. He was getting the inspiration from the great architect in modernism world, where “Post-Modernism” are 'white' and the 'grey' which different from the very extreme concept of Modernism where there's either black or white. However, Rem Koolhaas used the theory of this and apply to his work that stands out from other architecture also much more complex and magnificent in our world of modernism today.
"Play Time" was directed by French director, Jacques Tati, who himself played as a Monsieur Hulot in the movie. Tati has built an enormous set specially for the film with complex visual sound and low level of dialoge as a background noise. Here are some ideas after i watched this movie.
As i started watching "Play time", confusion came to my mind........
The movie started with the scene at the airport where a group of american tourist arrived to Paris. The officer inside the airport acting and dressing neatly and moved orderly. There is less dialogue but more of the natural voice from the scene in the movie which let viewer a chance to guess and perceive what the director trying to show. As I started to observed the background and architecture in the movie, I found that there is a glass box building appear in the movie a lot. I can see from the interior of the building like airport, office, and the scene where there was a product sale event or something. The interior looks light with white color and glass facade, also appear to be geometry shape for the furniture. When the American tourist come to the outside of buildings, there happened to be a lot of high rise buildings around the area which all of them again, looks like a glass geometry box shape. The tone of the movie looks like it was shooting in black and white film, but it was not because i still see some color in the movie. I think it reveal the idea of modern where the object or architecture come up with natural and pure color.
Tati has built his enormous set of background, furniture, and architecture especially for his film. The inspiration would be from modernism because when look back to the time when this movie produced, it's like the time when modernism has been effective to the world. Mies van der rohe is one of the famous architect known in modernim period. He is Mr. "Less is more", that known for simplicity, and geometry shape. Just like in the movie, architecture that appear in the film happened to be like Mr. Less is more's. Anyway, i think "Play Time" is a good and also weird movie which confused me a lot with the voice, the character, but not the architecture. It tells the story itself that it is a lovely modernism.
