Posted by Jacques Pochoy on March 30, 2002 at 02:28:05:In Reply to: Thanks, Jacques posted by Paul Malo on March 28, 2002 at 17:48:23:
*chuckles*
That was the purpose of the article...:-) I believe that most schools have the same problem of numerous "sub-cultures" about "representation"...( They would have had the same problem in Renaissance time wih the perspective)!What I've tried to say, and do in my studio, is to put back the tools in the tool box!...:-) Then it can be a commonly shared one, leaving each student the possibility to design is own "chef-d'œuvre"...:-) (that's another story as Kypling would have said).
What I didn't state in the article is the "havoc" I have to deal with! Not from the students... But from other teachers... The "Pro vs Con" I've successfully resolved at student level, still exists at the teaching one.
Many still believing in "good old Beaux-Arts" techniques,, while others just don't understand why I stick to "hand drawing" in a very "virutal" world....:-)
As you say so justly, it's the tree hiding the forest...:-)
I really believe that we are on the edge of a "new" architecture...Big words... But in history, Architecture always changed when new materials, new techniques, new ways of living did appear... It's the case today!
Of course, Rome wasn't built in a single day and among the "mannierism" of the precendent styles, one can point some discreet but efficient tendancies.... What will that be ? I can't say! But, as a teacher, I must prepare the future architects to be on the ready, and to shed at least all those "antique" quarrels...:-)
As last semester, I was in a French city with the students, investigating the site, most of the day we were discussing with the inhabitants, really poor people in a derelicted district... As always it was a surprise for many students who sometimes doesn't seem to have been living in "this" world... Suddenly, square meters and natural light -did- have a meaning...Well I suppose that all those who teach around the world have the same goals, even if the means are somewhat different...:-):-):-)
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