Steen Eiler Rasmussen is a Danish architect. He was born on 9 January 1898 and died on 19 June 1990. He is the author of London: The Unique City, which is called the best book on London as a town. The other well-known books of him are Town and Buildings, Experiencing The Architecture.
The primary comparison that the author makes is comparing architecture and sculpture. He talks around ‘utility’ criteria in architecture as the greatest distinction. And after that, he talks about an architect as an organizer who plans the setting for our lives and after that he says the challenges. An architect has got to know individuals, he ought to set everything agreeing to the individuals who will utilize that building. So you cant fair duplicate the ancient excellent buildings, they would be futile in this modern era. In addition, an architect ought to anticipate the conditions of the future and he ought to construct such a way that the building can be standing still after so numerous a long time. Also, the building that architect has arranged cannot stay as an individual archive of design like an outline of a craftsman, it’s not that individual since ordinary, conventional individuals will bring it to life.
I need to include that I truly preferred this sentence: “Architecture is produced by ordinary people, for ordinary people.” I think it is a quite good summarizer sentence.
In another subject, he gives the babies as a case. When they were born, they know nothing around the world. They learn everything by touching, looking at them. They learn by encounters. This can be not so much diverse for us. We learn the shapes by touching them. At this point, he talks around one of his encounters as a case. One day he was at the church of S. Maria Maggiore and he saw boys playing a few kinds of amusement with the ball, they were utilizing the bends of the building. And he says that whereas he was observing the boys, he detected the three- dimensional composition as he never sometime recently. It is the same when we are watching the difficult and delicate things. The shape gives us the impression of being difficult or delicate. The frame can moreover grant the impression of largeness or gentility. These impressions of hardness-softness or gentility largeness are around the surface character of materials.
He says that “Most buildings consist of a combination of hard-soft or light-heavy.” I discover it curiously. I attempted to suppose how can the inverse things can be combined together. And he says that in case we need to encounter design, we ought to be mindful of all those elements. I figure I got to proceed considering almost them.
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