Sometimes one wants to show off a little. It is what it is and it must be taken into account.
To project something so innovative and original that everyone talks about it. You know — it rains likes, people take selfies, and all the media don’t stop talking about this unique and groundbreaking work.
And when desires do not match possibilities (and/or skills), what is called “talking architecture” comes to the rescue.
What is talking architecture?
Talking architecture is architecture in the form of anything other than a building.
There are houses shaped like dogs, giraffes and elephants. There are buildings shaped like bottles, books and musical instruments. Boot-shaped houses, and so on.
But we must know that all these objects and living beings have their own logical deformation in the real world. Translating them into architecture may seem interesting at first, but then it becomes ridiculous and meaningless.
The silence of Zumthor
Peter Zumthor went for many years without answering the question about the meaning of the shape of his chapel at St. Benedict.
Does it represent a drop, the leaf of a tree falling down a slope? There were even versions of the chapel symbolising the comma, which is mentioned in the Old Testament.
Finally, after many years of silence, Zumthor wrote that he liked to read different interpretations of the meaning of the form of his buildings, but that the chapel was not intended to be a representation of something.
Architecture has its own language
Architecture has its own code. Its own form of expression.
Good buildings can be read in many different ways, and it is these multiple interpretations that make architecture interesting.
But how to make a house original and innovative without falling into clichés?
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