The good lies -- Yap Jia Cherng 1001642857
THE GOOD LIE
Honesty architecture refers to arcthitecture that is honest to material, true to structure and intention sticks to function. Deception in architecture means to have some elements which is totoally have no relation to function, or covers the matrial with another layer of untrue one. These two have their own strength, but at the same have their vulnerables too, pure honesty architecture sometimes have a boring outcome, because of the definition to " honest ", it sometimes becomes restriction, deceptive architecture, on the other hand, have been said is a waste of material, unrespectful to the truth of the structure and more, but have more liberty towards expression in architectural or artistic value.In an article I read, “truth” in Architecture is and speaks about truth of representation and of how pieces of art/architecture are true to their self. The article discusses how a piece of work is “true” if it is able to absorb a mind’s attention and not be judged by how it measures up to rules of a style or to a past work. A building should not try to represent a style of architecture or anything else but itself. The article discusses that we can call a piece of Architecture “true” when a building simply serves and reveals its function, such as a house simply providing shelter and giving someone a sense of home. I agree with the points stated above, but " lie " was not always bad anyway if it does not destroy the truth, and became a mask in front of it, or the lie tries to emphasize something that the pure true cannot.
Kluczynski Federal Building (1974) by Mies van de rohe, have I beams that does nothing about the structure of the building, which is decpetion in a way, but the " useless " I beams somehow emphasizes the vertical line of the building, and somehow give a recognisable idendity to this building.
Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House have an aesthetically beauty shell, which serves nothing to the structure of the building, but without these shells it wont be able to stood out, or express itself in an artistic way, or to be attractive and interesting.
Dancing house by Frank Gehry, the building on the left, may not need as much columns, but it shows the gracefulness and the continous fluidity of the entire building. The building on the right, may not need layers of contour like wall finishing, but is essential to compliment the right building with the left one, as both of it have same language, but expressing in slightly different way. Those elements mentioned may not be essential in honesty to structure, but is essential to express the dynamics and emotions of the building.
Deception architecture can be done in a good way that prserves the honesty to the elements and the intention of the building design, and act as an addition on to it to bring out something from the original building. In my opinion this is not a true lie, but just like the clothes people wear, make up females put on, hairstyle men have, all to express something and with intention in the other way. Does a woman with make up is trying to lie ? Or a men with fancy clothes but have nothing to do with his own is dishonest? What I am trying to say is a building do not have to be total honest or deception, but a combination of two, in a preferable way which is the honesty must be the base, before anything is added on.
In my point of view, the challenges of architects today is to be as honest as possible to the material and structure, at the same time make addition to the design intentionally and reasonably. The balance point must be determined according to the architect themselves or refers to the requirement of the project.
Architecture will always respond to the world in different ways. “Honesty” and “Deception” in architecture will always be derived in different ways, especially as the world and technology are rapidly changing. The line between truth and lie will always varies and definite in diffeerent ways. As a wrap up, good architecture should always have good intentions and impact for the society.
Architecture will always respond to the world in different ways. “Honesty” and “Deception” in architecture will always be derived in different ways, especially as the world and technology are rapidly changing. The line between truth and lie will always varies and definite in diffeerent ways. As a wrap up, good architecture should always have good intentions and impact for the society.
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