Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Taboo and Transgression : Architecture and Desire

According the article, the writer, Bernard Tshumi has talk about the pleasure of Architecture where how we related our architecture design toward our sensual, desire and feeling. In my opinion, our desire and feeling is definitely in a important position when we are designing something or a structure where they are those element which influence in the way of designing and also leading us toward the style of particular design. This is because we, as a designer will alway design something that which is what we wanted the most and which is that can be easily accepted by our own.
In this case, the writer has separate those elements into several fragments which related to the pleasure and desire in architecture.

1. A Double Pleasure - The pleasure of a space cannot be written in word where it is a form of experience. Those experience are including the pleasure of the space and the pleasure of the geometry/form/orders. It is an experience of sensuality and feeling.

2. Gardens Of Pleasure - Garden is one of the part in pleasure where it is built in a useless manner, but still is has a pleasure of space with its surround agriculture planting which bringing the sensuality feeling or delight.

3. Pleasure and Necessity - The pleasure and necessity of an architecture should in balance where we cannot just consider on the pleasure of the space. The necessity of the space are also important such the cost and the utility inside the building which is important in providing a good order of life.

4. Metaphor of Order-Bondage - there rule and regulation in the game of architecture where these kind of rule or what we called as bondage will bring a greater pleasure of architecture.

5. Rationality - The irrationality in architecture design will carry it to the extreme of pleasure.

6. Eroticism - Eroticism id not the excess of pleasure but the pleasure of excess where architecture is not only about the sensuality, but it contain both of mental construct and sensuality.

7. Metaphor of Seduction-The Mask - There is alway a meaning behind an architecture design, its is only how we understanding its meaning.

8. Excess - Exceeding is not a matter of subversion but is to preserving the the eroticism of architecture.

9. Architecture of Pleasure - By achieving the concept and the experience of architecture as well as transgressing the rules of the games will bring the pleasure of architecture.

10. Advertising for Architecture
11. Desire/Fragment - Desire of an architecture is like a meaning or an objective toward an architecture design whereas fragment is like a tool to express the appearance of the design.

Apparently, to achieving the maximum of pleasure in architecture in term of sensuality and senses, we have to push architecture to its limits or even transgressing its limits. In my opinion, the best way to experiencing ones architecture is through our sense like visual, taste, smell and hearing where all this element will actually influence or even encouraging in our sexual desire.
In conclusion, the taboo and transgress of architecture are definitely making an impact toward architecture design and experience which its affecting the capacity of pleasure and desire in a place.

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