In my opinion, The book is trying to open a new point if view to us. By showing us how modernism transfer from european country to America. It also point out the meaning of modernist and how it interact with time and people. For example, Modernism is happen in the 19th century, as we know that it's the start of machine age. Modern architecture try to use the profit of the machine age as much as possible, as we can see from the rising building, they tends to use whatever that can be reproduce over and over again in a small amount of time, which of cause have to be made by a machine. Later, after the war, it came to a cost problem, modernist architecture have to change his design and adapt to what it's happening in the world. In this case is to reduce the production cost of the building, either decrease the excess decoration, rooms, wall or ceiling, or reduce the cost of materials by using the local materials. All of this is related to our studio work, the house I choose is Herbert Jacob's house by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1936. He reduce the excess decoration, use the locals material and also reduce his own design cost to build this house as cheap as possible. The pure modernism house which will be the prototype of the later usonian project.
The book also mention some thing about purity of architecture,but I'm not sure what they really means. But what I think it trying to tell is that we should be honest to the the people, to the material and shape, by that is mean not to blend the truth. We architect, are the one to build and design the living space for others, if we put and unoccupied space in to that, that'll be a dishonest to the customers. The material is another part, we can't build a house that doesn't have a core for ceiling. We also can't make a wall out of wool and order them to stand a load. This is to be true to what they really are, or what the customers really want, That's what I think purity means to me at the moment.
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