Present is the key to the Past: Past is the key to the Present

When the current style begins boring to audience and doesn’t fit the context. In terms of designer we are required to came up with new idea or concept that improved the current problems and  tried to be more durable. Many improvements becomes as series with relationship that linked them together. Since the birth of the earth every elements and living creature has been developed by the time to fit the  context  and environment. Series of development also use as key that leads us trough it from present to the past. Like in the philosophy of naturalism which include the gradualistic concept that Present is the key to the past and functioning at the same rate.

Not only in geology or scientific terms but also in terms of artistic or architectural terms which present also use as key to the past. Studying in historical knowledge is not just reading through the story in the past or looking what people the the previous time did. But history is key that link present and the past together which emphasize many testimonies that appear in present period. Because of many  architecture in modern world are improved from few decades architecture that improved again from the older style. For me I look at these different style as a series which always developed leisurely.

A lot of changes in styles during the past hiding all the testimony of the development. Many similarity in style appeared like a repetition of them such as Baroque and Post-Modernism that they shared the same concept of complexity in architecture.  Even it seems like a series of repetition in architectural style. But on the other hand this series of development is not just the improvement of previous style but it is a discovery of mistake in the past which has been develop later with new proposal and interpretation.

But on the other hand if we think reverse if as Past is the key to the present  it not just Connecting architectural style together but it also use as case study for  us to predict the new trend in the future and to avoid mistake in design. Present is not just a current period we are in but present is the key that link us trough testimonies to the past and going forward to the future with series of repetition as research. Present is a point where we are that allow us to go forward or backward with all testimonies

Similarity in difference

Comparing between Baroque architecture, Renaissance Architecture, Modernism Architecture and Post-Modernism Architecture we will found similarity between these style in many ways. But in this case I will compare these architecture in terms of simpleness in structure. Renaissance and Modernism Architecture share the same idea in clear structure and architectural elements. Even Modernism simplified from too much details in renaissance architecture but if we compare with baroque and Post-Modernism, these architectural style tried to hided the structure by playing with complexity in structure. Comparing between Baroque architecture, Renaissance Architecture, Modernism Architecture and Post-Modernism Architecture we will found similarity between these style in many ways. But in this case I will compare these architecture in terms of simpleness in structure. Renaissance and Modernism Architecture share the same idea in clear structure and architectural elements. Even Modernism simplified from too much details in renaissance architecture but if we compare with baroque and Post-Modernism, these architectural style tried to hided the structure by playing with complexity in structure. In terms of propose there are like transition from architecture for celebrating god which use human proportion as a part of celebration then change to Baroque, architecture with the idea of mannerism that architecture begins to concentrate more in human while the Modernism architecture came up with the idea of humanization that architecture was built to correspond with human to be most functional. In terms of propose there are like transition from architecture for celebrating god which use human proportion as a part of celebration then change to Baroque, architecture with the idea of mannerism that architecture begins to concentrate more in human while the Modernism architecture came up with the idea of humanization that architecture was built to correspond with human to be most functional.

Key from present to the Classical architecture

“ Beauty does not consist in the elements, but in the harmonious proportion of the parts, the proportion of one finger to the other, of all the fingers to the rest the hand… ”(p.29,Aesthetic of Proportion)

From this sentence we will realize that Beauty remains as Harmony of each proportion as unity. Vitruvius’s theory explain the word “Proportion” and “Symmetry”  which use extensively nowadays in Architecture. Proportion in Nature was interpret through his theory which explains us the proportion of human body.

Even Modern architecture came up with different form with classical architecture but Modern architecture derived the Propotion from Vitruvius’s theory which developed later as Golden ratio by Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier wants everything to occur like a prototype,people should live in the same thing. He developed the idea of Golden ratio in the long tradition of  Vitruvius, Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian, the work of Leone Battista Alberti, and other attempts Man to discover mathematical proportions in the human body and then to use that knowledge to improve both the appearance and function of architecture.

In late modernism,We stared to know Louis I Khan use mixing of ancient architecture and modern principal to expressed his idea. Because the Modernist restriction didn’t influenced all his work he still design architecture with his own process while the history and modernist principal work as material. The Harmonious way was introduced trough his work, Light and and shadow narrow down the boundaries, giving dynamic and blend everything together as Architecture which standing between the Modernist style and classical style. ‘Purity of Form’ was introduced by modernist and it was revealed again with the similar idea become more lively.

In Postmodernism, Modernist architecture was denied and artist tried to find a new style in contradictory way but while they are looking for new style they already spent time studying and research the Modernist style to find the contradictory style like Rem koolhaas when he wanted to denied Villa Savoy by producing Villa Dall’ava.

To minimize form in Modernist was changed into Maximize form in Expressionism. Frank Gehry maximizing architectural form trough his design, Disney music hall” where we can see the expressive form, each volume of the structure is like the cube that was exploded from the tall building that surrounded his masterpiece. During this period, architecture donate the value to the outside world trough its forms with the sense of ‘form follow funcion’

Even different period and style interpret architecture in different way but they still have the same propose which is to served us the best architecture. The development may created new stunning form but all of them came from the same origin which develop many decades and all styles become related even they have contradictory style until now we can say that ‘Present  is the key to the past’