Architectural Language (Changing Vocabulary and grammar) (Page 4)
Architecture like art, is an insight into the reality of a period. The architect like an artist seeks to give expression to the forces of change. Not to be modern for its Own Sake, but to formulate Concepts that express a Society, a Culture, and an Origin - Concepts in which an epoch can see itself reflected.
At the moment, when the west has reached the apogee of the individualist experiment in creative modes of expression, and seems to have embarked on a rediscovery of a social, collective organisation, not only has the non-individualistic art of the East aroused new and widespread occidental respect, but Western individualism is being Seriously reexamined. This is reflected in the western art of our time. The aesthetic philosophy of the modern west is, in fact, coming closer to the culture of Asia.
Some day, architecture may well be able to take on more directly a good part of human expressive needs, and thus become an expressive art. It is also possible that the computers, yet to be designed, will be able to take note of both the deterministic and analogical, and thus help to correlate and fuse together the practical and emotional.
In the early years of the post Independence period, the architectural profession in India was in general totally enamoured by the Western experiments in modern architecture and tried to copy it blindly. We are now slowly but surely coming back to our roots in search of an identity of our own. Vernacular forms and regional architectural idioms are slowly getting translated into built forms. At the same time, globalisation is becoming an operative word. We all know that the concept of a 'World Family' was lovingly propagated by our forefathers in that charming Sanskrit dictum, vasudhaiva kutumbakam. All of a sudden, we realise that the concept is emerging into a concrete shape. The problem before US in India is how to become modern and Capture the Zeitgeist, the Spirit of our times, and also maintain the traditions. This attainment of a perspective with reference to the future is the most difficult task.
Architecture like art, is an insight into the reality of a period. The architect like an artist seeks to give expression to the forces of change. Not to be modern for its Own Sake, but to formulate Concepts that express a Society, a Culture, and an Origin - Concepts in which an epoch can see itself reflected.
At the moment, when the west has reached the apogee of the individualist experiment in creative modes of expression, and seems to have embarked on a rediscovery of a social, collective organisation, not only has the non-individualistic art of the East aroused new and widespread occidental respect, but Western individualism is being Seriously reexamined. This is reflected in the western art of our time. The aesthetic philosophy of the modern west is, in fact, coming closer to the culture of Asia.
Some day, architecture may well be able to take on more directly a good part of human expressive needs, and thus become an expressive art. It is also possible that the computers, yet to be designed, will be able to take note of both the deterministic and analogical, and thus help to correlate and fuse together the practical and emotional.
In the early years of the post Independence period, the architectural profession in India was in general totally enamoured by the Western experiments in modern architecture and tried to copy it blindly. We are now slowly but surely coming back to our roots in search of an identity of our own. Vernacular forms and regional architectural idioms are slowly getting translated into built forms. At the same time, globalisation is becoming an operative word. We all know that the concept of a 'World Family' was lovingly propagated by our forefathers in that charming Sanskrit dictum, vasudhaiva kutumbakam. All of a sudden, we realise that the concept is emerging into a concrete shape. The problem before US in India is how to become modern and Capture the Zeitgeist, the Spirit of our times, and also maintain the traditions. This attainment of a perspective with reference to the future is the most difficult task.
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