In this class we learn more about American modernism. We learn about American behavior of “Anti- neo classism”, I think this reason is also an important reason in making modernism to become very popular in America. To me it is like to show that the Americans are different from the Nazi, and to show that what Nazi is doing is not right. But we also learn about the conflicts between the American people behavior and the modernism architecture in America. Many things in American life style is opposite to what modern architecture is. To me I think this is a very interesting point, “less is more” “God is in the detail” “almost nothing”, these modernist principles are actually opposite to what American people really are. Everything else except the architecture are luxurious, more than needed. The thinking of the design of the cars are not at all following the principles of the modern architecture. It is also interesting that the design of other things are happening at the same time as the time of the arguments of the architects about modern architecture. We also learn about Louis I Kahn and his architecture that got inspirations from the ruins. This is somehow going back to the classism, yet Louis I Kahn also one of the main modernist. I think its kind of like a cycle, Le Corbusier trying to move to the extreme part of the theory, but at the same time referring back to the proportions that were in the past, and Louis Kahn also referring to the ruins to create his buildings. Going back and takes some characteristics of the classism which is far away from the modernism and make transform them to became a modern architecture.
In the last session of the class we watch a film called “Play time” in the movie it is about a person who enters a city for the first time, where he realized different things and learning different culture and behavior of the people living in the town. The people living in the town are very much the people that work like machine. The society is truly the modern society, where every thing seems to be machine like. And the protagonist in the movie is the person who completely new to this kind of environment. To me this film and the name of the film is like mocking the idea of the ideal modern society during that time. The name playtime would come from the fact that the modern society showed in the movie is so funny just like the play ground for the person who goes inside it. I think this kind of reflects how people or the filmmaker thinks about the idea of the modernism. To me modernism would be theoretically very successful but not very successful in the practical term.
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