In the end, art’s privileged form is perhaps not quite so privileged. Without question, there is more responsibility beyond economics, physical and political restrictions. Designers have regained limitations that existed so long ago in the form of structural and material technological inability, but that are now technological responsibilities. Just how different would the Villa Savoye look if it was designed and constructed today? Ignoring design fashion, was it too far removed from the world of nature to be built in any environment? Maybe, instead, I will leave it as a relic of an era when we learned that we could built anything we could imagine, before we learned that perhaps we should not. At least it’s beautiful, right?
1 Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space . Boston: Beacon Press, 1994. p107 2 de Botton, Alain. The Architecture of Happiness. Toronto; McClelland & Stewart, 2006. p65 3 Hollier, Denis. Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1989. p4 4 Crowe, Norman. Nature and the Idea of a Man-Made World. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1999. p30 5 Ibid. p5 6 Ibid. p6 7 Collins, Peter. Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture . London: Faber and Faber, 1965. p151
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