Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center.
I typically find my personal taste in architecture steering away from the international style, with that said I really had to rethink my personal misconceptions when I fell in love with the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts on the Harvard Campus. It was a very unique space. As we traveled up the ramp my perception of the space changed, and it became very apparent to me that we were in a very planned spacial experience. The building had such a strong industrial feeling that the machine that we walked through was hard at work. This thought was further complimented by the Massive glass walls that were almost unapparent revealing the painters, sculptors, and other artists hard at work in the inside. It was a machine of the visual. Traveling up the ramp every compartment of space had artworks being crafted, produced, or just materials being experimented with. From the interior the experience became even more rewarding. The walls that were divided into angled cubical windows.. the structure was almost unapparent. The glass of the walls goes directly into the concrete, and is at times unnoticeable. It was truly flawless. I took the time at the bottom of the ramp to show my love to his forest of pilotis, as you can see below.
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