Movement in Architecture

These reading definitely resonated with a much deeper sense of meaning than the previous ones in our series.

The articles highlighted the aspect of movement in architecture, which I treasure to a great degree. The idea of moving planes and geometries is a strong one in architectural terms. Lissitzky’s idea of pulling the square to lend a sense of three-dimensionality showcases his efforts to emphasis art as a living entity that emanates a sense of existence. It’s apparent that the architects, even at that time, stressed on changing the view of people towards existing buildings – they wanted the buildings to be not just objects set in place, but as 3d forms that move in space. The idea of involving the spectator was great, and even better was toying with their minds. Reversing the horizontal with the vertical, and vice versa, brings in a new level of complexity of thought and forces you to actually think about the infinite possibilities.

I was sort of lost in ’Montage and Architecture’. I understand the core idea is to encompass motion in art and architecture, but the techniques depicted stir a few skeptic thoughts. Perhaps this can be viewed as the foundation work for our modern day cinemarchitecture. The idea of movement is depicted very boldly in the designs of the Cubo-Futurists, who go a step ahead, and project the entire building into infinity – a very powerful juxtaposition for an object that is very strongly limited by gravity.