Visual Acoustics - The Modernism of Julius Shulman Part 1

"Every part of a person's life is based upon an architect presents" and "Architect lives and die by the images that are taken of their work that these images alone are what most people see, for every person who visit a private house, there may be 10,000 who only view it as a photo."

Julius Schulman, a photographer who have defy a way of looking at modernism, he first focusing was on the architecture in 1930s, he continue to document the evolution of build environment and architecture form.

Schulman had worked with many architect like Richard Neutra, where during that time he get to have his once voice, in which he is a photographer who has a very good sense of eyes and sense of composition. However, Schulman and Neutra has a very different mind and style of the picture that each of them wanted it to be. Schulman has always wanted to make the picture looking more than just architecture by adding the furniture, or people into the photograph, where Neutra wanting it to be very natural and just the architecture itself with the surrounding area.

Neutra has introduce Julius to many architects like Rudolf Schindler, Gregory Ain, Harwell Harris, Raphael Soriano, J.R. Davidson, and others.

Schulman's photograph in 1964 was the Case study house no. 22 by Pierre Koening. It was one of the most evocative images of the 20century of architecture. His extraordinary night shot of the no.22 was view by millions across the globe, transform and experimented into one of the world most enduring architecture icons.

Julius Schulman's work of photography in architecture has publish in many media of magazine, and was able to affectively introduce and innovative lifestyle to the american public.

In my opinion, what he did for the no. 22 case study house was really an epic, because the ladies sitting in the house look so lively and normal chatting in the house, making the house more than just an architecture, and looking out seeing the view of Los Angeles, it would be a dream home to be able to live in this house. Also Julius Schulman has a lot of impact in modernism architecture, his photograph has depicted modernism in architecture of the houses that he has photograph.

Le Corbusier - Villa Savoye VS Rem Koolhaas - Maison a Bordeaux

Le Corbusier, the very first architect who started modernism. He has designed one of the very famous of house of the time which is 'Villa Savoye'. It is designed with pure geometry shape and form. The support of the house is spaced regularly, precisely calculated and necessary to elevated the first floor off the ground. In fact, his designed has made the people spending more time on the outside, using freedom in plan, using thin columns, optimising the interior; so the space wouldn't be wasted. There are also many kind of circulation in this house like spiral stair, normal stair and a ramp. The interior of the house is having a non load bearing wall which are free for arrangement for the open plan

In comparing to the Maison a Bordeaux by Rem Koolhaas which is also one of the renowned architect in this century, he had designed this house in many form both in simple and complicated shape. Since the owner of the house said that they didn't want just a simple house, but wanted a complicated one. But the shape isn't just one thing that defined the complicated house. In facts, the House doesn't have any columns, but its support are very minimal which are the I beam attach with , the U shape column, and circular columns. The circulation of this house is one of the very important thing of this house, having a 4 different kinds of vertically circulation, like a spiral stair, curve stair, straight stair, and the most important one is the lift that is made by the piston and it is designed to please the owner of the house.

This 2 houses have a lot in common to each other but also there are things that are different causes of the way of thinking from 2 different architect. But in this present times, many inspiration had made a lot of impact in design, which is also can be see in Rem Koolhaas work's that he is also being inspired by Le Corbusier's work.

   Villa Savoye - Le Corbusier 

                                                        Maison a Bordeaux - Rem Koolhaas