PART TWO
So if my New Year a little moderate, not for my much thought-about architectural ambitions. Although the title was 'How Architecture Screws Up My Life', it is about how my full potential was achieved by learning architecture.
Architecture to me is a dogma. To learn architecture, one must acquire architectural language, thus making one eligible to mingle around architectural personals who speak the same lingo and jargon. Having said that, that notion was a basic towards all type of gained knowledge. I am not going into philosophy yet, as I could but my rambling today was ignited by Adam Sharr's book entitled Heidegger for Architects.
The first chapter of the book tells us about the journey Heidegger went through during his mountain walks. It had the same feeling when I was in the first year, 2nd semester of my architectural education. My lecturer, Mr. Mior Shahriman said, the trip to Gua Tempurung was to make us learn about appreciation of space. Space has to be experienced! Space has to be made to accomodate the needs of human, or rather, the human has to accomodate the space for his needs.
My thoughts of this went from Heidegger, Norburg-Schulz and Kevin Lynch. Kevin Lynch wrote about 5 things that make an image of a city; Path, Edges, Districts, Nodes, Landmarks. Almost all the factors have to be experienced before being identified as sentimental to the users of a city. These things are vital in making architecture of the city.
Again, space has to be formulated to fit the locality. Heidegger said space is prove for existentialism of beings (or Beings). However, if we dont experience, are we less of an architect? Some people refuse to let themselves open to new avenues. I've known these people, I've across them in life and I felt sorry for them for they are denying the nature of human inquisitive curiosity.
This is how much Architecture Screws Me Up:
1. I felt that if I wont be an architect I'll let everyone down.
2. As much as I want to design all of my life, I FEAR rejection and non-believers in my great ideas.
3. EVERY SINGLE THING has to connnect to architecture or arts.
4. I am dying of hunger of knowledge from renowned architects... whom I wish their ideas and works could be easily obtained.
5. I laughed at excessive calculation of Mathematics. I just love doodling on my notepad!
My way of ushering New Year this year brings more opportunity for me in Architecture. Despite the world economic crisis, I believed that I can do this and perform in anyway I want. Till then, I'll be back with more Heidegger's existentialism and Husserl's phenomenology.
Toodles my architectural comrades. May the drawings be with you!!!
Sunday, 4 January 2009
Part One of In the wake of New Year 2009: How Architecture Screws Up My Life
Well, it was supposed to be two articles but I think it will be worthy to be put together as a complement for each other. See, I welcomed 2009 with open arms, putting every bad thing behind me.
Define bad things: depression, sadness, regret, anger, etc... in short, all the things that doesnt contribute to my Positive Mental Attitude.
PART ONE
First thing first, let see what I did on New Years Eve. We celebrated a friend's birthday on the last day of the year and about 8-ish at night I made my way up to Eureka Tower in Melbourne. It was designed by Fender Katsalidis architect, and it is the tallest residential building in the world. Further readings can be found at the end of this post.
On the 88th floor of the tower we had our small party. The view from up there was breathtaking! The whole floor provided 360deg view of Melbourne. The only downside that night is I didnt bring my other 75-300mm VR lense with me, so I have to be content with the basic lense I had, which works great anyway.
My favourite shot of the night have to be this one:
Fireworks that followed:
The picture of the sunset was the first shot of the evening, whilst setting up the camera and scrutinizing the building's weird positioning for beautiful views.
The horizontal picture shows the fireworks along the Yarra River. Fed Sq is a little hidden behind the first firework on the left and a bit of Hamer Hall can be seen on the bottom right of the frame. The vertical picture is another firework which was bigger and more spectacular than the Yarra River display, which was set up near the Royal Botanical Gardens. Correct me if I'm wrong but we had a little dispute of the name of the particular garden. Look up on Google Map and you'll know why.
So the ushering of New Year was much welcomed as I wish to cleanse the much regretted version of myself. I have been picking up a lot of books on philosophy and architecture. Just like the blog's name, it offers me more sublime thoughts, taking me back to the basic of ethics and morality to conduct and dictate my life.
Resolutions? Yes, I do have definite ones. Let see...
1. Finish uni! I have been in uni longer than I can remember. Gosh...cant wait to get it over with.
2. Getting some strong philosophy background, in regards with architecture
3. Mastering technical language of the web. Yes, I want to make my own website and things related to that.
4. Opps, I also needed to learn more 3D programs for my architecture development.
So yeah, that is what we have for 2009.
Links:
On Eureka Tower by Karl Fender:
http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensions_future/Transcripts/s661686.htm
Define bad things: depression, sadness, regret, anger, etc... in short, all the things that doesnt contribute to my Positive Mental Attitude.
PART ONE
First thing first, let see what I did on New Years Eve. We celebrated a friend's birthday on the last day of the year and about 8-ish at night I made my way up to Eureka Tower in Melbourne. It was designed by Fender Katsalidis architect, and it is the tallest residential building in the world. Further readings can be found at the end of this post.
On the 88th floor of the tower we had our small party. The view from up there was breathtaking! The whole floor provided 360deg view of Melbourne. The only downside that night is I didnt bring my other 75-300mm VR lense with me, so I have to be content with the basic lense I had, which works great anyway.
My favourite shot of the night have to be this one:
Fireworks that followed:
The picture of the sunset was the first shot of the evening, whilst setting up the camera and scrutinizing the building's weird positioning for beautiful views.
The horizontal picture shows the fireworks along the Yarra River. Fed Sq is a little hidden behind the first firework on the left and a bit of Hamer Hall can be seen on the bottom right of the frame. The vertical picture is another firework which was bigger and more spectacular than the Yarra River display, which was set up near the Royal Botanical Gardens. Correct me if I'm wrong but we had a little dispute of the name of the particular garden. Look up on Google Map and you'll know why.
So the ushering of New Year was much welcomed as I wish to cleanse the much regretted version of myself. I have been picking up a lot of books on philosophy and architecture. Just like the blog's name, it offers me more sublime thoughts, taking me back to the basic of ethics and morality to conduct and dictate my life.
Resolutions? Yes, I do have definite ones. Let see...
1. Finish uni! I have been in uni longer than I can remember. Gosh...cant wait to get it over with.
2. Getting some strong philosophy background, in regards with architecture
3. Mastering technical language of the web. Yes, I want to make my own website and things related to that.
4. Opps, I also needed to learn more 3D programs for my architecture development.
So yeah, that is what we have for 2009.
Links:
On Eureka Tower by Karl Fender:
http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensions_future/Transcripts/s661686.htm
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Holiday Thoughts
Hence, the holidays began...
While typing away all nonsense things into Google, I thought it might be good to add another entry to spice up this dormant blog of mine. If it permittable, I think I could see spiderwebs building up.
Holidays means 5 things for me:
1. A chance for a breather... from whatever I do
- as human, we always whinge.
we whinge when we are young, wishing that we would be an adult
we whinge when we are jobless, wanting to be the breadwinner for the family
we whinge when we are studying, cant wait to be in the REAL world
we whinge when we stumble across a difficulty, saying that its God's fault
- whatever reason or justification we have, holiday is essential to wind up all our
thoughts and actually to recollect precious memories
2. It is the time for Jalan-jalan Cari Makan! (translated: Go Around Sightseeing and Food Testing) and half the time taking photos
- last holiday went to Tasmania. 'twas good! except that it really dried up my
pocket and savings. an old Malay proverb also noted that the more you see of new
things, the more you'll understand about life. i believe in that phrase for new
knowledge makes you sharper and more sensitive towards your surroundings
Sydney at its best...
Darling Habour & Sydney Tower
3. Sleep!
- more sleep as the semester's work had deprived me of good sleeping hours. hehe,
its not that i need more than 4 hours of sleep but it feels good when you tend to
oversleep. LOL
4. Time to Re-organize Stuff
- I actually just finished doing my CV. wow, intending to look for summer jobs and
its eventually half finished with nothing particular in mind needs to be done
urgently. next thing in line, portfolios. i hate doing portfolios but things need
to be done! grrrrr
- took out my 100GB external HD and upload 'useless' and 'junks' from my laptop.
yeah, it clogs up the system when you just stash the old files sumwhere and later
forgot all about it and 5 months later discovered and recovered it in some nook
and crannies that you never thought of
- room! super messy room! i hate doing my bed. but in order for me to appear Posh
and Proper, i just have to maintain my high level of hygiene. not me, its just
that i have too much of stuff especially books and super tiny room to keep them
all in
- throw OUT junk! seriously
5. Hit the BEACH!!!
- ok, i know its still spring over here but lets face it, who doesnt like beach?
who doesnt like saltwater? (ie sea), because if you dont, you are A FREAK! haha
summer is rolling in and i just cant wait to jump into the water.
- or if the sea is like polluted and not safe to dive in, just take a stroll along
the beach. believe me, even a fight could be smoothen down by this short walk.
choose a nice day to go out, but i bet if you staying by the beach, it is very
unlikely to get a baaaad weather even during winter.
While typing away all nonsense things into Google, I thought it might be good to add another entry to spice up this dormant blog of mine. If it permittable, I think I could see spiderwebs building up.
Holidays means 5 things for me:
1. A chance for a breather... from whatever I do
- as human, we always whinge.
we whinge when we are young, wishing that we would be an adult
we whinge when we are jobless, wanting to be the breadwinner for the family
we whinge when we are studying, cant wait to be in the REAL world
we whinge when we stumble across a difficulty, saying that its God's fault
- whatever reason or justification we have, holiday is essential to wind up all our
thoughts and actually to recollect precious memories
2. It is the time for Jalan-jalan Cari Makan! (translated: Go Around Sightseeing and Food Testing) and half the time taking photos
- last holiday went to Tasmania. 'twas good! except that it really dried up my
pocket and savings. an old Malay proverb also noted that the more you see of new
things, the more you'll understand about life. i believe in that phrase for new
knowledge makes you sharper and more sensitive towards your surroundings
Sydney at its best...
Darling Habour & Sydney Tower
3. Sleep!
- more sleep as the semester's work had deprived me of good sleeping hours. hehe,
its not that i need more than 4 hours of sleep but it feels good when you tend to
oversleep. LOL
4. Time to Re-organize Stuff
- I actually just finished doing my CV. wow, intending to look for summer jobs and
its eventually half finished with nothing particular in mind needs to be done
urgently. next thing in line, portfolios. i hate doing portfolios but things need
to be done! grrrrr
- took out my 100GB external HD and upload 'useless' and 'junks' from my laptop.
yeah, it clogs up the system when you just stash the old files sumwhere and later
forgot all about it and 5 months later discovered and recovered it in some nook
and crannies that you never thought of
- room! super messy room! i hate doing my bed. but in order for me to appear Posh
and Proper, i just have to maintain my high level of hygiene. not me, its just
that i have too much of stuff especially books and super tiny room to keep them
all in
- throw OUT junk! seriously
5. Hit the BEACH!!!
- ok, i know its still spring over here but lets face it, who doesnt like beach?
who doesnt like saltwater? (ie sea), because if you dont, you are A FREAK! haha
summer is rolling in and i just cant wait to jump into the water.
- or if the sea is like polluted and not safe to dive in, just take a stroll along
the beach. believe me, even a fight could be smoothen down by this short walk.
choose a nice day to go out, but i bet if you staying by the beach, it is very
unlikely to get a baaaad weather even during winter.
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