Spaces

By spaces I mean the buildings where we work, live and visit. For most part we have a notion of how any particular building looks, I mean the structural composition and typical shapes. Its rare we come across buildings which invoke a sense of awe and wonder, they could be nothing of any sort of what we thought a building should be. Rather than meeting a pure functional aspect, if a building can invoke a emotional response like one we feel when we watch a great painting, thats a remarkable architecture. Few days back I was watching a architectural documentary called "Sketches of Frank Gehry", an interesting analogy I found was that you can think of his buildings as abstract paintings. In abstract art the painter breaks apart various objects and reassembles the pieces in a abstract form, instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.

Attached picture is one of his famous Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao Spain.

Venkat Reddy