“LESS” IS NOT LESS, MORE IS MORE

We humans live in two worlds --the outer world of appearances, and the hidden world, how these things actually function, their anatomy or composition, the parts working together and forming the whole. Dwelling in a house is not only a functional issue, but also a spiritual one. The spiritual one is not something visible to the eye, but it enhance this sense of the spiritual. Fashions come and go, and if houses are not built out of spiritual issue, they contain no truth and find no organization in chaos. We must make ourselves study as deeply as possible the technology we use, the functioning of the group we work in, the economics of our field, its lifeblood. A Building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there. To let individual elements arise and shine at the expense of final repose is, for the architect, a betrayal of the locus of god. The house is the locus of mind, and the mind is the locus of god. Dwelling in a house is a search for the mind as the locus of god. Life is complicated and Life is messy and Life is hard and Life is endlessly fascinating, so is architecture. Visually Less is not less, more is more.          

REFERENCE LIST:

Jin Baek, Nothingness: Tadao Ando’s Christian Sacred Space. Routledge, 2009.ISBN 978-0-415-47854-0    

http://www.pbs.org/flw/legacy/essay1.html

http://www.archdaily.com/321403/how-santiago-calatrava-blurred-the-lines-between-architecture-and-engineering-to-make-buildings-move/