All I wanted to do is an ode to my irrational love: Architecture, and with it, try to bring a bit of background to why all these spaces, walls and shadows mean so much to me!
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Edith Farnsworth added the curtains against mies's wishes too many architecture students wanted to see the house no privacy + at night the house is a lantern attracting every moth in the county
This man is responsible for the brutalist high rise apartment buildings with non existent heat and sound insulation (your hear your neighbours all the time), small living spaces. The outside of the building is ugly, artificial, boring. Le Corbusié's legacy lived on in the the soviet style mass houing projects which are similarly inhumaine. I would make the people who are responsible for these buildings to live in one of these apartments with noisy neighbours and see how they like it. Fun fact: The bigger the apartment building, the higher the crime rates become in the area. This unnatural way of living affects the psyche of the inhabitants.
Altro che "Brutalist" ....qui c'è Assenza Totale di Luce Divina di Spiritualità Ascetica....ma solo Affermazione di umano Superomismo o se si preferisce "Megalomania"....Troppo Cemento Solo Cemento Sempre Ancora Cemento....la linea la forma quasi scompare dalla Assoluta Prevaricazione del Cemento.... tutto il resto è disinformazione a discapito della Verità Il Fuori certamente è un "Opera Scultorea" a discapito dell' intero
Very informative video! I don’t get why people are so quick to judge without watching the full video, i loved his opinions on Le Corbusier’s thinking process, while still acknowledging his revolutionary ideas. But I do agree that the sketches had to be a bit bigger.
After reading the book by the Savoye grandson it is very evident that the villa had extreme problems regarding leaking water, dampness throughout, heating problems along with having no privacy in sound between rooms. A beautiful design, but not ready to have anyone living there. The Savoye family complained extensively over the years.
My word you put a lot of effort into these vids, I love them! The facade reminds me of Peter Zumthor's museum. I love the surreal quality of floating the building but wonder about the covered plaza, it seems more claustrophobic and heavy than contemplative and slow, I'm not sure what it felt like in person.
There is a lot I like about the project but I am interested in relatability as I feel it’s one way to approach character and avoid genericness. I feel this is the weak point for me because the point of relatability of this project is (as you said) a bathtub. I think it irrelevant and slightly derogatory.
I think our over-sensitive dealing with historical buildings is telling about how architecture is currently approached. Scarpa demolished parts of historical Castle Vecchio because he thought it told a better historical story when modified while the Brutalists demolished massive pieces of historical architecture, so great was their confidence in their vision. Today we’re too scared to do anything 😂😂 but I love this approach actually. We honour the past in that way and acknowledge that time will judge our own work, either by demolition or preservation.
Like you said, it can be opposite. I think that we should start calling it ‘inverse’ because if you look at the Port House in Artwerp, it is ‘opposite’ in every way to the point where it doesn’t relate at all. ‘Inverse’ is a very particular type of opposite. That’s just something in my head and not a critique of the video but rather a critique of some other architecture.
Thank you for the work and research. Excellent overview and context. May you one day be the proud owner of a 'Barcelona chair.' BTW, Mies is one of my all time favourites as well. Best.
I think you might have phrased this more diplomatically (especially considering how insightful and well researched the video is) however I agree that it might have been nice to see the master bedroom (with the circulation running through it) in plan for example.
As a stand alone building this house did not weather very well, similar to Michael Graves, and the other white architects. It must not rain on their buildings.
Richard Myer sure did follow Corbu. But Myer also found clients for his ideas. The Douglas House with the glass facing west was a disaster. Myers comment was that the site was ever right for the house. At least Wright told his clients to move the table from under a leaking skylight. I remember making home made skylights, they leaked most of the time.
I was able to visit the building about 4 years ago with my then architecture student son. Proof that details are of ultimate importance. Just look at how the marble pieces are seamed and the reflctions in the fountains. I do need to remind you that he and the Bauhouse were responsible for the Brutalist school; not all ofwhich was beautiful and became a great influence on Stalinist era construction in Eastern an Central Europe
The juxtapositional layers of cinematography, description, titling at the opening of each sequence and the gentle and descriptive philosophy embedded in such organic verbiage , as conveyed through gentle dialogue precisely elicits the magic and raw spiritual beauty that Le Corbusier shared with us through his magical and pure design. This is not an easy accomplishment on your behalf, FourthWall. Very much admired and appreciated.
It's amazing how quick people are to excuse the flaws simply because it was done by Corbusier. If it was done by any other person it would have been demolished and forgotten. Yes there are good lessons, but most of it is utopian and unrealistic, not to mention the Unité is ugly to most people besides architects. Having 1k people on one building with green surrounding it and repeating it 10x or more sounds nice in theory, but would only work in a planet with infinite resources. Not to mention it doesn't create communities or cities.
I am Le Corbusier with God as I am Natalie Helferty God's Body as Queen of Canada and Royal Chieftain of Indians of America the Holy Grail. The Designs were Modern in 1975 when I was 7 years old. We were doing Architecture Designs in Canada of many eras to combat the Mountbatten and Moussolini War with their Evil Spirits doing Industrial Wasteland Designs.
I have had the privilege of visiting the chapel once (mid-80s) and was simply floored. I'm not the least bit religious but you cannot help but have a somber, reflective and dare I say spiritual mindset as you walk around this extraordinarily beautiful building. There are zero "church-ish" cliches; everything is entirely reworked from ground zero. The natural lighting is so, so, so, so subtly and carefully done. It is much, much smaller than you might expect but it utterly commands the landscape. It absolutely heaves and broods like it has been there for a billion years. I have never experienced another place like it and I remember the visit like it was yesterday.
It is an abomination only appreciated by the architects. It was abandoned since it was shit to live in. Please make architecture beautiful again. Stop building cold lifeless boxes of glass.
