Post 1# General introduction

Seeing the world from an outer perspective, one would notify how design changes when travelling from one country to another, what would mostly be notable is the culture. The creation and construction of the quality of life, cultural behaviour, norms which all influence the circle of design in architecture, furniture, products, fashion, art, traditions, and so much more that all this represent the fruitfulness of the historical and contemporary connection and there also, one could understand how the trend of design by time has changed and been developed to a more sophisticated and simpler way for the human being's comfort and taste of liking.


Something that I wanted to highlight about, is the contrast and definition between the difference of Art and Design. Although many people link the two words together, the terminology behind them is signified differently and according to my recent research on design vs art states that ''art asks questions, while design answers them'', (Addison Duvall, n.d.). I found that phrase very easily explained and straight forward to understand.


Detailing about all these small significations by means of when discussing about the profession line of design, one would note how one thing is alluded different from another and on how one thing could lead to another.


To begin with in the blog I will be introducing how design is reflecting the world to nowadays and how it got influenced by the old system or technology, the historical and contemporary connection. Design can mean and imply different things, it also implies with how things work. There one could understand how and why designers has informed all this knowledge from ideas, inspirations and developments taken from opinions or suggestions. All this would be underestimated through the understanding formal analysis of the principle of design.


Throughout the years design has got simpler in shapes, forms, space and use of materials, all this can be surveyed at the recent modern style in architecture, interiors, industrial designs, fashion, graphic design, and so much more... In addition to the advanced technology that we have now, developments went into overdrive. To the contemporary world the representation of models and visualisations are being made with the computer aided design (CAD). This software generates graphics and resolves the mathematics automatically, such like; scale, proportions, dimensions, curvatures and so much more. CAD enables the designer and their clients to see virtual models of their outcome design result.


Coming up with an extraordinary and a modern building structure that fascinates me so much is the Sydney Opera House that is found in Australia (1957-1973).

The Opera House, backed by the Sydney harbour bridge 1973. 

This masterpiece building was made by the Danish architect Jorn Utzon, it's where he was mostly notable for his late modern architecture that with its performing art, it has become a symbol of both Sydney and the Australian nation.

The building is constructed mostly with excessive roofs, comprised with sets of interlocking vaulted 'shells' and led to other multiple strands of creativity, in architectural form and structural design. One of its special feature of the structural design is that it glints along the day and glows at night, another element about the building is its location which helps the whole structure to blend  naturally with surroundings. Additionally, the design is able to stand out due to its  contrasts.
The architect as any other professional has encountered and influenced himself by many other great people.

There was a time where Jorn Utzon worked with the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, which was considered as an architect, designer, sculptor and a painter. Pointing out his characteristics especially on the profession line of the product design, I could notify that he also had used curvatures on chair constructions and another work of his that he came up with on the architecture is the Riola Church and Parish Centre that is found in Italy, I related the arches with the ones of the Sydney Opera House. The difference is that the ones in the picture at the bottom are straight and employ ordinance whilst the ones constructed on the Opera House are placed distinctively.

Alvar Aalto, Beehive Pendant Lamp A 331 

Riola Church and Parish Centre in Italy, Alvar Aalto (1975-78)

The modern characteristics of the structure have evolved from the forms of Alvar Aalto's lamps that he designed himself, along with the intention of letting light going into the interior that was built with vertical, asymmetrical ribs. This was intended to create a closer community and a closer relationship with the presence and functioning of the mass in the church. The exterior of the building that is formulated with asymmetrical arches is built in concrete, with windows that are made in silver glass.






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