[ Detail & Poetry ]

1. As the technique of detailing changed from the hands of the craftsman to the tools of the architect, how has the resulting construction of details changed? Explain in terms of scale, material and cost.

Hand crafted details has a different meaning now, before; the craftsman would have a special link to the piece he was working on, more time would be spend and the detail would gain a special value. Now with more technology and better tools, architects seem to mass produce the elements of the building forgetting about this link that the construction should have, it make it have less value.

2. How does "geometrical relationship" of individual details provide an understanding of the whole building if "indirect vision" localizes the viewer and "habit determines to a large extent even optical reception"?

All the individual details together would make the building complete, look at the big picture of the whole, kind of what you see with the PS1 installations, also, details that  you might think are not as important might have some strong relationship with the building but you don’t relate them together is more of how the building gets in to you, I think that this happens on Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, with the details in his interiors, the geometry of his window designs, the furniture, that you can almost relate that to the floor plan or the aesthetic of the building.

3. Carlo Scarp's details are a "result of an intellectual game" where the Open City buildings are constructed from an act of poetry. Describe what role the detail plays to "tell-the-tale" in each of these environments.

In the Open City, you get a different sense of the surroundings, the details tell the tell of what the building and the area is about, the way the building has this poetic relationship with the site and that it makes you experience the building.

             

4. Pendleton-Jullian writes about the Open City as emerging from and being in the landscape. Does allowing landscape to initiate "the configuration of territory and space" challenge Western building notions, and how so?

In our days, the easiest way to build is to manipulate the landscape for the beeter and easiest construction of your building, but you don’t let the natural landscape be part of it. The landscape should dictate the form and shape of the building, the ideas and designs should adapt and be designed with the landscape.

5. Describe some detail conditions of the Open City that convey "lightness" as Pendleton-Jullian refers to.

When I think lightness I ting about small, thin,  open, floating, not massive,   not huge concrete walls or rooms, but I  think that it refers about what the area makes you feel like when you are in it, that it separates you from the surroundings and you forget about problems or things you have in your mind, it made me think a little of Arcosanti and the way the area is shaped from the landscape.