MASTER | BUILDER
Author | Bailey Json
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Hume's "ideal critic"
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The "Ground" is that which nourishes thusly we begin from the LAND (earth + water) because our collective thought is that the energy of architectural expression is grounded and emerges, sensitivities.
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MASTERY
FROM WHICH TO BEGIN THE FOUNDATIONAL THOUGHT WAS/ IS TO REVEAL THAT WHICH INSPIRES, landscapes.
BUT WHAT OR WHOM IS TO BE INSPIRED?
TO INSPIRE IS TO REVEAL THE SPIRIT NOT SOULY OF THE TERRAIN BEFORE ONE TO BE SENSED, nature.
THE INSPIRED SEEK TO EXPRESS AN INNER SENSITIVITY NOT SOUGHT BY THE OTHERS, designers.
EXPLORING TO SENSE ENOUGH ONE MUST CONSCIOUSLY BECOME A MASTERFUL FORM(ER).
NOT A SINGULAR BEING OF SEDENTARY MIND PURSUING FORMLESS FORMS OCCUPIED BY ARBITRARY HUMAN ACTIVITIES, EXPERIENCE, programming.
THE MINDFUL ACCUMULATE IDEALS, PLATO’S THEORY, TO ADVANCE TIME BEYOND THE TIME OF THE BODY, forms.
WITHIN THE MIND AN AWARENESS ‘OF’ BECOMES A CONTINUAL EXPERIENCE OF THE IDEAL FORM SURFACED BY PRINCIPLES, ELEMENTS & PRECEDENT, design.
IS THOUGHT ALONE SUFFICIENT TO FORM? DELIGHT, POSITED VITRUVIUS, “Ten Books on Architecture”.
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BUT WHAT OF UTILITUS & FIRMITAS (VITRUVIUS)?
THE SENSITIVE ONE MUST BE SENSIBLE IN/WITHIN THE APPLICATION OF ACTIONS THAT MASSAGE FORMS, making.
EARTHLY VESSELS OF MATTER & CONDITOINS OF LIGHT, substances (ARISTOLE).
BODIES (humans) FLOWING TO FLOW (COMMODITY = UTILITAS. VIT.) AS IF THE 'ARTFORM' OF BOTTICHER, NOT MERELY CLADDING OR DECORATION AS SUGGESTED, ambiance.
CONDITIONS OF LIGHT, NOT WINDOWS OR GLAZING, texture.
VOIDS & VOLUMES NOT SPACE OR ROOMS, spatial experience.
SURFACES BECOME ESSENTIAL TO THE STRUCTURED (FIRMNESS = FIRMITAS. VIT.) NATURE THAT EMERGES TO REVEAL MEANINGS, culture.
A BUILT FORM BOUND TO THE CONTINUAL / CONTINUUM OF THOUGHTS OF THOSE INSPIRED ENOUGH ALONG A JOURNEY BEYOND TIME, history.
WITHOUT TIME THE MASTER OF ARTS (SABBATICAL) FORMS TO BUILD EXPRESSING HARMONIOUSLY BALANCED IDEAS, cultural artifacts.
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MASTER | BUILDER, not MASTER BUILDER...
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THE MASTERFUL BUILDER IS AN ASSEMBLAGE OF DIVERGENT ENERGIES, THOUGHT (sensing), REFLECTION (thinking) & MAKING (building).
WHAT DOES A MASTER SEE(K) OTHERS OVERLOOK?
THE CULTIVATED ONE SEEKS A SEMBLANCE OF BALANCE AS HEIGHTEN AWARENESS REGARDING UTILITAS (COMMODITY) & FIRMITAS (FIRMNESS) ALONG WITH A CRITICAL (HUME) AWARENESS OF VENUSTAS (DELIGHT).
the inspired are honored to SENSE the other...
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The essence of architecture exists in the simplicity of thoughts that become ambient forms… the totality of thought.
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Work Cited |
Theory of Forms by Plato
Theory of Substances: The Categories by Aristotle
Ten books of architecture by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Karl Heinrich von Boetticher, see Kenneth Frampton, Boetticher, Semper and the Tectonic: Core Form and Art Form‘, what in What is Architecture, edited by Andrew Ballantyne (London: Routledge, 2002), pp.138-52. Print. On the Standard of Taste by David Hume
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. “Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics”: London: Penguin, 2004. p. XX. Print.
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