Dynamic forms
Amalgamate several
Conflicting ideas
Approaching matter and space at the prodigious scale of an aerodrome system, an expressive sensual style of modernism can enhance the travel experience. In its effortless wing-like alacrity, the Dulles terminal design conveys ideas of immovable flight, providing an open atmospheric environment.
“Function influences but does not dictate form.” – Eero Saarinen
Time goes by
Fundamental things
Light up the town
Ornamental architectonic particulars stand-out in the pristine morning light as clouds drift by. It is often the exquisite details that render experience provocative and add distinction.
“Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on.” – Kurt Vonnegut
Terse phrases
Gradual change
Hypnotic effect
Levels of existence become categorized by material distinctions that divide the visual plane in an effort of imagination. The spirit expands and grows while passing through contiguous states of consciousness, as appearances indicate certain antecedents by projecting the present into the past.
“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.” – Ad Reinhardt
Weird vibe
Pseudo retro
Ice cream cafe
A reconstructed and embellished memory, this creamery attempts to emulate a classic diner interior featuring chrome fixtures, a coin-operated jukebox, strange color lighting, and a luncheonette. The entire experience seems clinically counterfeit. Woolworth’s it is not.
“You will be paying for the looks and fancy expensive take-out containers.” – Heather R.
Eminent fashion
Producing reasons
Sufficient explanation
Moving fast through the urban environment, eye-level design elements are quickly extracted as a phenomenon of immediate intuition, devoid of rational reflection or close examination.
“A definition, if it is to be called perfect, must explain the inmost essence of a thing, and must take care not to substitute for this any of its properties.” – Baruch Spinoza
Feeling formed
Unconscious thought
Fleeting evidence
Driving across the rural landscape can be hypnotically dreamlike, allowing feeling to have its way before reason manifests. Prolonged passive contemplation of the vanishing scenery results in a sequence of instantaneous inspirations.
“Some ephemeral moments must be given a memory, because the temporality of an instant may radiate a twinkle of eternity.” – Erik Pevernagie
Fairgrounds venue
Behind the scene
In afternoon light
Just on the other side of this impressive structure there emits clamorous noise. No real need to buy a ticket for the musical acts.
“Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life. ” – Jackie Robinson
Empirical reality
Governing principle
Aesthetic identity
Artworks function as afterimages of empirical experience. The larger the experiential base, the more aesthetic possibilities manifest. Such experience need not all be operative in conscious awareness, but also can accrue from unformed sensation arising from engagement.
“There is no aesthetic refraction without something being refracted; no imagination without something imagined.” – Theodor W. Adorno
Categorical scheme
Definitely stated
Progress stage
The passage of time is inscribed in the details of a viscerous building edifice. There are aspects of actualities which both restrict thought and stimulate imagination.
“The accurate expression of the final generalities is the goal of discussion and not its origin.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Narrowly focused
Light source
Indication
The sunlight lines-up and animates the otherwise ordinary.
“Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.” – Alfred North Whitehead