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| Fagus Werk, a factory building |
Hey everyone! Sooo... As my first assignment for English class, teacher told us to write about an architect we admire. This, in the context of Zaha Hadid's death, whose work I personally admire, just the way she manages to play with curves and treat space as a flexible kind of play-dough. But, as everybody's been talking about her, I'd like to chose one of my favorite of all times; somebody who I admire for the opposite of Zaha: Walter Gropius and his way of treating geometry in functional spaces.
As a Design student, I spent my first two years learning about the basic Design principles as they were taught in the Bauhaus workshops, Germany, prior to WWII.
Learning about his architecture, and pretty much everything about working with geometry so we could create shapes to compliment function of things, this caught my attention for the cleanness of the shapes, the purity of straight lines and the use of almost only square angles. Gropius focused his work in making the most out of the available space, so, no ornamentation; no additional colors or materials, and just strictly the necessary to make something functional, wich led the shape of the buildings shine for their own simplicity. Also, this buildings -being for commercial, manufacture or habitational use-, were characterized for their huge windows and glass panels, taking in as much natural light as it was possible into the rooms.
Gropius' (and other influential architects') works led me to love and give special attention to geometrical, clean and pure shapes. And that's what I believe marked my personal artworks, specially when it's about photography or packaging.
