Bigness where Rem Koolhaas has opposed it

The massive architecture that is all around us these day has somehow attracted and influence people to perceive the space that they are in. This space are also call 'Junkspace', where it is just for the sake of building the architecture but didn't execute it properly or didn't care about the context.

Rem Koolhaas is one of the architect who has opposed this idea of bigness and massive architecture. He think that this kind of architecture would be really hard for one to appreciate these kind of architecture. Eventhough it is a huge building and a lot of work and detail have been put in this, but some particular are also very hard to control, for example lighting of the building, which are sometimes hard to control. In my opinion this kind of architecture is for only the sake of inducing people to this places. Rem Koolhaas has practically made use of it. He find his a new logic that is support to the logic that has already exist, irrational logic - contradictions and remake this architecture.

I think every architecture and every architect should have their perimeter of how the architecture should be to be able to execute the design perfectly and one can appreciate and truly experience the architecture with the well qualities and memory.

The Expressionism from Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry

Many Architect in this present time have their own style of designing architecture, and many of them tend to focus a lot on the expressionism. Though modernism, form follow function but in expressionism function follow form, where these architecture would have a complex form and structure, or some would look really futuristic.

In Jean Nouvel architecture, the building that can see very clearly is the Cartier Foundation, eventhough, the building look very geometric form, but his architecture express the real and unreal. The building play with the reflective obscure. Blending the image that when u look at the glass you wouldn't tell is the image that you see is behind or in front of the glass. Also another of his project, Wing of the loops, Abu Dhabi, where the architecture has the geometric roof, but the context is the art that light has project through the wall making the shadow an art on the ground. Many of Jean Nouvel building is expressive, his architecture scream out that what is the building purposely for.

Another expressionism architect is Zaha Hadid, one of the most popular woman architect in this century. Her architecture is about the movement almost like a futuristic kind of architecture. The movement of the building draw the person into the building and follow the pathway. She didn't not do just the exterior but the interior also have an impact that guide people to places in the building.

Another great architect in this period is Frank Gehry, being well know from his very unique style of architecture, having a very curvy and complex form of building. Like the Disney Concert hall in Los Angeles or the Guggenheim Musuem in Bilboa,Spain, where I'm sure its has a very complex structure and very hard to build this kind of architecture. But in design of architecture it has turn out that the architecture seem to be more popular and attract people to come to this place to see the architecture than to serve what its function suppose to be.

In my Opinion, having this kind of architecture is very special, very interesting, and very new, but eventhough it look complex, but it also should be also be able to function properly and serve what the purpose of the building should be.

Rem Koolhaas - A kind of architect

Rem Koolhaas, a dutch architect who is one of the most significant architect in this present time. He started his career with being a journalist and a filmmaker. This career has somehow turn him to be an architect, where he has started to study at AA, London, later established his own company Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)

OMA has turned to be one of the most world leading international partnership practicing architecture. Producing the architecture all over the world from the residential that has influences on the way people live to the most important public building like museum, embassy, and skyscraper.  Rem Koolhaas has been getting a lot of inspiration from the leading history architect, who establish the world of modernism, where there are the 'white' and the 'grey'

Rem Koolhaas had take those inspiration and use it in his work in the post modernism architecture. However, he is a kind of architect who uses the inspiration that he has and adapt to his own kind of architect, where he would develop it into more complex and complicated kind of architecture.

'Play Time' - Jacques Tati

As the movie begin in the airport in Paris, France with the sound of people entering when they are walking, and people talking, but can't really hear it probably, which convey that Tati wanted to emphasize on the sound of people walking, and the different of sound in walking is in different material and classify by what gender of a person is walking, whether the person is wearing a high heels or a men's shoe

After the airport scene, comes the office building which show all the architecture, which are mostly geometry shape and form, with all window as the big part of the facade material. As the movies goes all the electronic and gadgets is still very not developed, and complicated to use.

More of the architecture during those period in either office or shopping mall is all cubicle, which all of this architecture can be link back to Mies Van der Rohe, who always created and designed architecture in square or rectangular shape and form. In the movie, even the residential are all cubicle and made of glass which all leads to modernism. Although, all this architecture are made with glass but when it comes to privacy, there are none of those, which can be all see thru in and out.

In conclusion, the film architecture is all about the modernism, which is all the high-rise building of the offices which is looking all the same in the rectagular shape and form with the material of glass, creating a straight line.