Akyles Arqu reflection

Akyles D. I really appreciate Rafael Moneo's preferred materials of brick and stone. Rafael Moneo is recognized for his work in museums and on educational and research institutions suggests he works mainly on the design of large-scale buildings which in this modern age are made primarily of cement and/or large amounts of glass. I have concerns regarding both the aforementioned materials. My primary concern are large cement buildings because if needed or wanted we can't actually knock them down or remove them because the release or CO2 caused by their collapse is astronomical, even now we are stuck with giant, useless and deteriorating buildings that we can't remove due to the possible fallout from the CO2 released, which is why I greatly enjoy the works of Rafael Moneo from an aesthetic point of view, because I enjoy stone constructions like castles, and from a more ethical view of an environmental hippie. 

  Akyles D. The man who built America, the father of architecture, designed over 1000 homes in a 70-year period. Frank Lloyd wright has an astounding number of accolades and titles that are truly reflective of his contributions to architecture in the late 1800s and early 1900s. I found his take on organic architecture and the castle like aesthetic of falling waters to be the most interesting aspect among his creations.  Falling waters is a stunning home. Standing in the middle of a forest, atop a waterfall one would imagine that any singular manmade squared structure would be so out of place in a forest but the cream colors of the cement and stones and the shadows they create make it seem as if this fort like house can just disappear into the forest, hidden from any who don't know where it is. I call it a fort like house because the stone portions remind me of a fortification from the Middle Ages and classic era of similar materials but different purpose. the balconies and their ce

 Akyles D. van der Rohe and Gaudi are architects capable and recognized for styles of grandeur and beauty in two different ways. In the pursuit to create beautiful and grand architecture they both used color and pattern to accentuate their creations, this is probably the only similarity between the two men. van der Rohe had a house he designed that expresses modernity and its grandeur, if that makes sense. van der Rohe's house is open, its beauty lies in the open spaces and the use of glass that makes defining where the house begins and the surrounding nature end's. Now to its grandeur, how does a small house, surrounded by large trees look so large? it is a small dwelling for one person maybe even a couple, married or otherwise, its small but appears large or maybe we are just used to seeing houses of the same size as more suffocating. it's in the use of glass instead of cement or brick walls and open space or usable space, both maybe that make it bigger than what we are u

 Akyles D  during the lecture le Corbusier appeared to be an amazing Architect with a creative use of apace, who maximized the use of natural light and capable of designing entire cities from the ground up and then I took a closer look at the city design. I must say that I did not like the city he designed. the city was very well built with effective road systems that links the entire city without dead ends or redundancies. My understanding leads me to believe that the city will stagnate and die-out. the city is uniform and carefully structured, on a smaller scale this would not be a problem, but for a city of 3 million its insanity (in my opinion) that a city so uniform that any obstruction or change or new construction would negatively affect large chunks of the city, great inconvenience and/or sudden inequality and division. this city looks as if its incapable of growth or change. it is very beautiful and very creative, its large and awe inspiring but I don't think its capable o

 Akyles D Bonet Santiago The classics art first glance seems to have their focus around grandeur and ornateness. Most of the ones shown in the lesson have religious purpose and imagery or displays. Their size is seen as a marble of engineering for the time when they were built. Some of them have been through hell, literally, disfigurement, fires and explosions and that's only the Greek ones, they say the path to heaven goes through hell and with the size of the cathedrals and their ornate and extravagant styles they are godly art pieces (pardon the dad joke). love the ornateness hate the size, their just too big . . .  never thought I'd be the one to say that. . . anyways.  The size is ridicules to me because the amount of new technology that was created and imagined for each individual project or just a specific part of them is unnecessary, amazing but unnecessary. the classics, from what I understand, are iconic monuments and symbols of their respective eras, locations, cultu

Akyles D. Bonet Santiago  Jackson Pollock, seen as a pioneer of abstract art. the style is characterized, at least by its leading figures, in maturity as the art had, or I guess didn't have any true depth or central point of view. It's supposed to represent a type of freedom, but I don't see it. whenever I'm in a room with abstract art on its walls all I see and look for are the patterns made incidentally by the artist in their attempt to not make one (pattern) or a pattern made by the laws of physics that, if I find a pattern turn the supposed display of freedom to a horrifying reminder that all things are governed by something no matter how free they may perceive themselves to be.  All the existential dread and edgy emo mentality aside I do like the type of abstract paintings that have to do with color being the main topic of inquiry and experimentation during the creation of the painting because I've no idea how one makes an inquiry into color with maturity throu