>Is not the the size and shape of the cave that these people made an
>expression as well?
I dont belive the size and shape of the cave has any ARCHITECTURAL
expression, because it doesnt mean to express anything. It was
inconscient. Architecture is not aleatory, architects have an idea and
make it work on the buildings they build.
>Why do you think it has to be through the decorative
>aspects of cave wall paintings?
It has NOT. However those days it was the only way they had and used to
express something...
But I might be wrong.....Caves are (were) indeed Architecture....But only
if we thing that caves have an interior spacial organization, and man had
divided the interior of the caves according to its activities where there
is a place for eating, cooking, sleeping, etc.
I dont deny that decoration is indeed a way to express someting...I might
appreciate it in some circunstances...
>One could debate the expressive power of
>decoration as well but I think that construction is an expression in
>itself that constitutes architecture, albeit not all architecture is this
>way. The size, shape, location etc of each person's cave is an
>expression of their relation to the world, protection from it and
>interest in interactions with others. This I think is political.
Do you feel that for example the Rio de Janeiro favelas are Architecture?
You can say that favelas express the poor living conditions and social
status of the people who lives there...Is that right?
But my point is that whoever build the favelas had not that idea. They
dont want transmit any idea, they just want a place to live. We can only
say that man has a natural atitude to organize himself with others, and
that is urbanism not architecture. But favelas are not planned so we can
not say that it is urbanism.
A few weeks ago i watched on TV a program about how favelas were built
and they have indeed people who specifically design them thinking about
its interior spacial organization, therefore I believe that we dont live
in caves for a long time... and that favelas are simply caves.
Architecture is not simply making the living room larger than sleeping
rooms, it is above all to make quality spaces where man can live happily
for ever and ever...Do you think favelas were built with that in mind?
Or I might want to make people suffer and build favelas, and that is
indeed architecture because I have an idea and have planned how to make
it.
Architecture is to have and idea and think how to make that idea work.
>The polarity that you set up seems to want to divide architecture from
>construction by your pitting of them against eachother. Why is this?
I dont, honestly. Architecture needs construction. I mean Architecture
has to be constructed, otherwise it is just a drawing on a paper. But
what I want to say is that Architecture is NOT sinply constructing walls
and a roof. It has to have meanings, express feelings and organize our
society!
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