This series focuses on how buildings can be shown in other than canonical ways. More than ever we have the right to make the places we live in, better and pleasant places. Architecture is a powerful means to achieve the well-being of a place. The stylistic aspect of architecture induces synaesthetic thinking and processes sensations. The loss of decoration and ornamentation in architecture is an oversight attributable to the progressive devaluation of artistic practice. In this series, an architectural typology is taken as the reference, the city building. It is shown in various contemporary visualizations of architectural style, unleashing the most artistic forms of conceptualization of aestheticism.
This image is the formal representation of the denunciation made against the art world. Today art has lost its deepest meaning, emotion. The forms tend towards an increasingly aseptic regularization towards the observer. The vision becomes tending towards an ever more reduced manner of meaning and linked to static and emotionless forms. The image depicts ancient world architecture placed within a contemporary structure. The ancient shapes tend to stand out and make their dull voice heard through the thick surface that surrounds it.
The city vision needs to change connotations. We are still fond of the shapes and styles of the modern era. Even if with advanced technologies that have brought us into the contemporary world, we use the rules as already established unsurpassable foundations. The risks of this stylistic morbidity has led us to produce a copy of a copy of a truth based on canons of the past. We have always drawn inspiration from the ancient masters, but never really followed their teachings. They were inspired by nature for their creations, we are inspired by other men.
Finding inspiration from natural rules is easy. The observation of the phenomena helps to understand the real development of the surrounding. Everything is cyclical, like the project. We need to think of form as a means of realizing nature with artificial methods. The image shows a small building in the city based on naturalistic shapes and behaviors. In the future, the city will become intelligent and will have to imitate nature more and more in order to inhabit it.
We are faced with the image, whose language is particularly pungent in comparison with the style currently in use. We have now accepted the insensitivity of the city context, as after every great repression the resurgence takes place. One should not confuse the grandiose technological progress, which makes the contemporary appear like a machine for the future, and the formal, conceptual and artistic characteristics that this period has produced. We are facing a new decadence of the whole vision of creative art. The aesthetic factor assumes a decisive value and importance for the city. Color has a strong and direct meaning towards the observer. Will we be able to welcome (again) the visions of artistic taste?
Living in a forest as the greatest supporters of sustainable practice. This architecture has the task of identifying itself with the urban context, keeping strong naturalistic connotations. The architecture of the future is moving towards a construction increasingly in line with the general coexistence with the planet. However, we cannot approach the naturalistic world without a real vision of built nature. The dynamic forms of the wood contrast with the static forms of the glass and the surrounding environments, creating the impression on the observer of movement linked to the naturalistic sphere. The Wood and the wind are the clear identification of a formality increasingly linked to forms and canons no longer dictated by rigidity, but by fluidity such as the fluidity of thought that must be obtained in order to change the overall vision.
Alessandro Peritore
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