At first when just read the first part and intro of this passage, I would have thought that it was all about sexuality and architecture together. Only that I know it was not only about that, but the attraction of architecture to the people, giving pleasure to the people. Very nicely deliberate metaphor.

Firstly the oppositions. Order and disorder, structure and chaos, ornament and purity and so much more. All these are oppositions that have different characteristics. Over the years, of so many architects, there were different style they have been possessing. They have their own moral about the style they are using and following. The more classical versus the pure form of modern versus deconstructionism style, for me, I think they are no right or wrong in it. They have their own way of attracting people, of creating that desire in people, in sexuality, or in feeling the spaces and experiencing the architecture.

Anyway, the fragments really have very nice points of architecture, of sensuality, of desire, of pleasure, of sexuality and so much more!

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A Double Pleasure

* The pleasure of space
* The pleasure of geometry and, by extension, the pleasure of order --- the pleasure of concept.

They both can't live without each other. People could experience the soul, the uniqueness of one space; as in, from our feet, to the ceiling above, to the nearest walls and partitions, or furniture around us, we could feel the presence of the space, and the atmosphere that it creates.

Then the pleasure of the concept, when, all these assemblies above, actually being put together, matching the concept, the message the designers or architects would like to convey through the architecture.

I thought of the example in the restaurant in gasoline. A full of theme cafe restaurant. The first time I visited this place was at Sungei Wang when I was form 4 or 5. It was based on the haunted house or something with a lot of super natural thing. Lighting was dark. Wall paper was interestingly scary.
lol. even the photo is blurred, the eerie feeling was a little stronger.
Went back few years later, atmosphere was still the same. I guess it's the concept and the way they let people experience the space that attracts all the youngsters to come over for tea.

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Gardens of Pleasure

After second thought after reading, it's quite true that designing a landscape architecture isn't really that easy. To express through plain plane, plain ground, it really needs a lot of creativity and thought. It's not about placing the vegetation, the elements in any disorder way, it needs design, for expressions.

There are a very nice garden in Bukit Jalil, with alot of different architecture in all over the world gathered there. My parents likes to go over there very much. It was actually designed like zones, from places to places. And there are actually bout 3 parks linking with each other all over Bukit Jalil. A very big recreational area. A lot of people going there for exercising in the mornings. Can visit here. ahhahaa

The passage wrote that gardens anticipated the history of cities. Here the garden, or actually a recreational park showing flash back of the architecture and histories of different places.

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Pleasure and Necessity

I would have remember one of the architecture term from History 2 class, bout non functional here. Uselessness. Some people would say extra decoration, idea, creativity are useless, when related to financial and monetary aspect. There we can see most of the commercial buildings, terrace house, shoplots, the design are mostly the same. (anyway, for repetitive houses, the houses could be limited for construction purpose, easier ). I guess only for special building, like art gallery, museum, and for owner who would willing to pay, could have special ideological design of architecture. And there are really super limited architects in this world that could do this, special design showing their ideology of architecture. We still live in a plain terrace house without extra ornaments. It's a question whether that extra decorations are a "need" or just a "want".
It is now all leave to the architect and owner, to weight, which is more important to them, financially or pleasure of architecture, the uniqueness of the architecture on their building. A piece of art like what had been described like the "fireworks" in the passage. =)

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Metaphor of Order - Bondage

Bondage of architecture with theories, histories and other precedents. The bonds enhance pleasure, it says. The more numerous and sophisticated the restraints, the greater the pleasure in architecture. I guess it's the challenge, the techniques of bonding all the rules and regulations, the restrictions, the "must-apply-in" theories and others, when all these could blend in so well, matching, creating a piece of art that present, so outstanding, people could actually feel the pleasure inside, the complication of bondage could be the significance of that architecture. Just now how we are trained in our design classes now, with a lot of research, precedent studies, concepts, organizations, principles, when all these met, with clear expression, only then we have did a good design that could talk within itself, that showed what we wanted to tell others in that design. @@

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Rationality

People have go beyond everything and challenge every limit on earth. And some have go over the line of rationality, with upside down houses. However people find these special.

In Japan: http://www.digital-pros.com/mt-static/archives/000032.html


http://www.watchmojo.com/blog/travel/2008/09/05/

Rational?
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Eroticism

Eroticism is not the excess of pleasure, but the pleasure of excess. @.@ Same as the fragment before, it is said that neither space nor concepts alone are erotic, but the junction between the two is. The ultimate pleasure of architecture is that impossible moment when an architectureal act, brought to excess, reveals both the traces of reason and the immediate experience of space, this can be explained with the "Bondage" fragments as well.

It could create an attraction, a focal point, of making people having the desire towards the architecture when everything bonds in so well while having the concepts and space blends into each other perfectly as well.

However by seeing this word "Eroticism", somehow remind me of another couple restaurant in PJ. I have heard a lot about it from the couple couple friends and saw online before but never been there. However I think that the concepts and space have created a very... eroticism feeling for the couple I guess. @.@ Don't really know how to describe it. LOL. The Cave @ SS2, PJ.


Each couple could take one private "cave" for themselves. marogalfoodparadise.blogspot.com
The open area, as if dining inside a cave. marogalfoodparadise.blogspot.com

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Metaphore of Seduction - The Mask

The mysteries behind the architecture. It was described as architecture as like wearing many layers of mask. Unveiling every one of them, there will still have another one behind. Only through this way people could feel pleasure, with seduction, to explore it. Very fun way the passage comparing architecture seduction with flirting acts.

Every elements in the architecture could have resemble something else, with its very own reason. Only through knowing the stories and mysteries behind it, people could understand the building. Only then the people could be amazed. Oh NOno. Should be the place itselves have been very amusing and amazing, the mysteries and reasons behind it will add on the surprises of the purposes of every elements and the standing of the piece of art there.

People likes excitement I guess. People like curiosity. People like to discover new things.

Like the design of shops and shopping malls, for example the pavillion, it is made of glass, showing partial of the building and for shops, surely displaying the items with mannequins, this will generate curiosity and desire of people to know what's more inside the shops and shopping malls, what nicer stuffs could have be selling inside the shops. This is a normal reaction of people.

http://www.newswit.com/enews/2009-06-03/31013ede1773a3704013cc1feb354857/

http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2006/02/25/tokyo-show-windows/

Another example will just be the Berlin Jewish Museum. The design of this museum seduce people to walk through all the spaces with different experiences moving through all the difference spaces and axes.

I really like all the reasons and how Daniel Libeskind had designed. Every design elements in the museum had been representing something. History of the Jews in Berlin through the spaces of axes; the anguish, the angers through the angular form; the sadness, hollowness of the humiliation or abuse through the void space with the fallen leaves of steel faces, the cracking sound. omg. @.@ everything so well thought.

It is said that before knowing all the representations, it already had been speaking itself of all the emotions it wanted to express, after knowing all the meanings of everything, I guess no one would have wanted to deny the greatness of this piece of art.

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Excess

To talk about pleasure, it's actually easy to create but certainly not in architecture. Only when the art of illusions can be mastered, breaking points that are flexible to be created, and expectations and wantings had been fulfilled and reached. Idea and concepts being convey through architecture clearly, however with a mask of mysteries behind all these that will create desire. No matter orderly or through conflict, as long as it's interesting and fulfill all the concepts and expectation, special, people might can feel the pleasure of the space and concept.

Not only through orderly way of classical, nowadays, creativity and innovations are very much fonded by people of architecture, of modernism, of special space quality. But with all the other fragments merge well together. @.@

special excess, differences and left over, go beyond the formal, previous classical dogmas and principles.
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Advertisements for Architecture

Hahaha. here the passage wrote that architecture could not be performed in books. I somehow disagree with this. @.@ Only through books and pictures, and passage, people who could be access to the place could know more and feel more about the place, the architecture that it's too far to reach. And there comes the importance of photography skills.

yea, it will be definitely different thing by feeling with all the seven senses ourselves in the real space with reading a book, just a 3D pictures in a 2D paper. However this type of advertisement have been a very crucial one to let people knowing places.

The last sentence wrote that: as there are advertisements for the architectural products, why not for the production ( and the reproduction) of architecture? Things are always easier to be said than to be done. It has a lot of considerations and restrictions for a single reproduction of architecture I guess.

I'm not sure whether had I truly understand this fragments. There might be pros and cons of the advertisements of architecture. True also that it is said that it triggers the desire for something beyond the page itself, sometimes by reading the Ikea book, we just read and put aside, without really feeling interested in it, but we'll feel like buying it when we touch it in the Ikea store. @.@ hmm. very much confused. But I still support the advertisements and productions of books anyway. lol. There could be mysteries to be unveil that people loves behind the pictures, with the right photography skills. :)

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Desire

So many metaphor in this passage. Architecture with language. Both contains fragments that form them.

Architecture with walls, rooms, streets, ideas; real fragments and virtual fragments; memory and fantasy; ---- Architecture stands in between. Balanced? Desire. What a big word. Another metaphor. Each setting and fragments in a movie was aimed at seduction, but always dissolved at the moment it was approached. Then each time it would be substituted by another fragment. Desire was never seen, yet remained constant. This is the beauty of it, the hard-to-get-approached of desire.

And architecture was said it was the same thing. A piece of architecture is architectural because it sets in motion the operations of seduction and the unconscious.

It is full of possibilities. It allow us to express what we wanted, the unconciously-wanting in our mind, and spread this to the others as a seduction. "It cannot satisfy the wildest fantasies but may exceed the limits set by them."

I might be able to create something in the Harry Potter story, and from the movie "Inception", create another of my own world, create desire for the people. Architecture has a lot of great possibilities.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke-

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Dance as if no one can see you,
Love as if you were never hurt before,
Sing as if no one is listening,
Work as if you don’t need money,
Live like it is the last day of your life…
??: Life's short,
Break the rules,
Forgive quickly,
Kiss slowly,
Love truly,
Laugh uncontrollably,
Dont regret anything that made you smile.

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At first when just read the first part and intro of this passage, I would have thought that it was all about sexuality and architecture together. Only that I know it was not only about that, but the attraction of architecture to the people, giving pleasure to the people. Very nicely deliberate metaphor.

Firstly the oppositions. Order and disorder, structure and chaos, ornament and purity and so much more. All these are oppositions that have different characteristics. Over the years, of so many architects, there were different style they have been possessing. They have their own moral about the style they are using and following. The more classical versus the pure form of modern versus deconstructionism style, for me, I think they are no right or wrong in it. They have their own way of attracting people, of creating that desire in people, in sexuality, or in feeling the spaces and experiencing the architecture.

Anyway, the fragments really have very nice points of architecture, of sensuality, of desire, of pleasure, of sexuality and so much more!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A Double Pleasure

* The pleasure of space
* The pleasure of geometry and, by extension, the pleasure of order --- the pleasure of concept.

They both can't live without each other. People could experience the soul, the uniqueness of one space; as in, from our feet, to the ceiling above, to the nearest walls and partitions, or furniture around us, we could feel the presence of the space, and the atmosphere that it creates.

Then the pleasure of the concept, when, all these assemblies above, actually being put together, matching the concept, the message the designers or architects would like to convey through the architecture.

I thought of the example in the restaurant in gasoline. A full of theme cafe restaurant. The first time I visited this place was at Sungei Wang when I was form 4 or 5. It was based on the haunted house or something with a lot of super natural thing. Lighting was dark. Wall paper was interestingly scary.
lol. even the photo is blurred, the eerie feeling was a little stronger.
Went back few years later, atmosphere was still the same. I guess it's the concept and the way they let people experience the space that attracts all the youngsters to come over for tea.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gardens of Pleasure

After second thought after reading, it's quite true that designing a landscape architecture isn't really that easy. To express through plain plane, plain ground, it really needs a lot of creativity and thought. It's not about placing the vegetation, the elements in any disorder way, it needs design, for expressions.

There are a very nice garden in Bukit Jalil, with alot of different architecture in all over the world gathered there. My parents likes to go over there very much. It was actually designed like zones, from places to places. And there are actually bout 3 parks linking with each other all over Bukit Jalil. A very big recreational area. A lot of people going there for exercising in the mornings. Can visit here. ahhahaa

The passage wrote that gardens anticipated the history of cities. Here the garden, or actually a recreational park showing flash back of the architecture and histories of different places.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pleasure and Necessity

I would have remember one of the architecture term from History 2 class, bout non functional here. Uselessness. Some people would say extra decoration, idea, creativity are useless, when related to financial and monetary aspect. There we can see most of the commercial buildings, terrace house, shoplots, the design are mostly the same. (anyway, for repetitive houses, the houses could be limited for construction purpose, easier ). I guess only for special building, like art gallery, museum, and for owner who would willing to pay, could have special ideological design of architecture. And there are really super limited architects in this world that could do this, special design showing their ideology of architecture. We still live in a plain terrace house without extra ornaments. It's a question whether that extra decorations are a "need" or just a "want".
It is now all leave to the architect and owner, to weight, which is more important to them, financially or pleasure of architecture, the uniqueness of the architecture on their building. A piece of art like what had been described like the "fireworks" in the passage. =)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Metaphor of Order - Bondage

Bondage of architecture with theories, histories and other precedents. The bonds enhance pleasure, it says. The more numerous and sophisticated the restraints, the greater the pleasure in architecture. I guess it's the challenge, the techniques of bonding all the rules and regulations, the restrictions, the "must-apply-in" theories and others, when all these could blend in so well, matching, creating a piece of art that present, so outstanding, people could actually feel the pleasure inside, the complication of bondage could be the significance of that architecture. Just now how we are trained in our design classes now, with a lot of research, precedent studies, concepts, organizations, principles, when all these met, with clear expression, only then we have did a good design that could talk within itself, that showed what we wanted to tell others in that design. @@

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rationality

People have go beyond everything and challenge every limit on earth. And some have go over the line of rationality, with upside down houses. However people find these special.

In Japan: http://www.digital-pros.com/mt-static/archives/000032.html


http://www.watchmojo.com/blog/travel/2008/09/05/

Rational?
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Eroticism

Eroticism is not the excess of pleasure, but the pleasure of excess. @.@ Same as the fragment before, it is said that neither space nor concepts alone are erotic, but the junction between the two is. The ultimate pleasure of architecture is that impossible moment when an architectureal act, brought to excess, reveals both the traces of reason and the immediate experience of space, this can be explained with the "Bondage" fragments as well.

It could create an attraction, a focal point, of making people having the desire towards the architecture when everything bonds in so well while having the concepts and space blends into each other perfectly as well.

However by seeing this word "Eroticism", somehow remind me of another couple restaurant in PJ. I have heard a lot about it from the couple couple friends and saw online before but never been there. However I think that the concepts and space have created a very... eroticism feeling for the couple I guess. @.@ Don't really know how to describe it. LOL. The Cave @ SS2, PJ.


Each couple could take one private "cave" for themselves. marogalfoodparadise.blogspot.com
The open area, as if dining inside a cave. marogalfoodparadise.blogspot.com

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Metaphore of Seduction - The Mask

The mysteries behind the architecture. It was described as architecture as like wearing many layers of mask. Unveiling every one of them, there will still have another one behind. Only through this way people could feel pleasure, with seduction, to explore it. Very fun way the passage comparing architecture seduction with flirting acts.

Every elements in the architecture could have resemble something else, with its very own reason. Only through knowing the stories and mysteries behind it, people could understand the building. Only then the people could be amazed. Oh NOno. Should be the place itselves have been very amusing and amazing, the mysteries and reasons behind it will add on the surprises of the purposes of every elements and the standing of the piece of art there.

People likes excitement I guess. People like curiosity. People like to discover new things.

Like the design of shops and shopping malls, for example the pavillion, it is made of glass, showing partial of the building and for shops, surely displaying the items with mannequins, this will generate curiosity and desire of people to know what's more inside the shops and shopping malls, what nicer stuffs could have be selling inside the shops. This is a normal reaction of people.

http://www.newswit.com/enews/2009-06-03/31013ede1773a3704013cc1feb354857/

http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2006/02/25/tokyo-show-windows/

Another example will just be the Berlin Jewish Museum. The design of this museum seduce people to walk through all the spaces with different experiences moving through all the difference spaces and axes.

I really like all the reasons and how Daniel Libeskind had designed. Every design elements in the museum had been representing something. History of the Jews in Berlin through the spaces of axes; the anguish, the angers through the angular form; the sadness, hollowness of the humiliation or abuse through the void space with the fallen leaves of steel faces, the cracking sound. omg. @.@ everything so well thought.

It is said that before knowing all the representations, it already had been speaking itself of all the emotions it wanted to express, after knowing all the meanings of everything, I guess no one would have wanted to deny the greatness of this piece of art.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Excess

To talk about pleasure, it's actually easy to create but certainly not in architecture. Only when the art of illusions can be mastered, breaking points that are flexible to be created, and expectations and wantings had been fulfilled and reached. Idea and concepts being convey through architecture clearly, however with a mask of mysteries behind all these that will create desire. No matter orderly or through conflict, as long as it's interesting and fulfill all the concepts and expectation, special, people might can feel the pleasure of the space and concept.

Not only through orderly way of classical, nowadays, creativity and innovations are very much fonded by people of architecture, of modernism, of special space quality. But with all the other fragments merge well together. @.@

special excess, differences and left over, go beyond the formal, previous classical dogmas and principles.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Advertisements for Architecture

Hahaha. here the passage wrote that architecture could not be performed in books. I somehow disagree with this. @.@ Only through books and pictures, and passage, people who could be access to the place could know more and feel more about the place, the architecture that it's too far to reach. And there comes the importance of photography skills.

yea, it will be definitely different thing by feeling with all the seven senses ourselves in the real space with reading a book, just a 3D pictures in a 2D paper. However this type of advertisement have been a very crucial one to let people knowing places.

The last sentence wrote that: as there are advertisements for the architectural products, why not for the production ( and the reproduction) of architecture? Things are always easier to be said than to be done. It has a lot of considerations and restrictions for a single reproduction of architecture I guess.

I'm not sure whether had I truly understand this fragments. There might be pros and cons of the advertisements of architecture. True also that it is said that it triggers the desire for something beyond the page itself, sometimes by reading the Ikea book, we just read and put aside, without really feeling interested in it, but we'll feel like buying it when we touch it in the Ikea store. @.@ hmm. very much confused. But I still support the advertisements and productions of books anyway. lol. There could be mysteries to be unveil that people loves behind the pictures, with the right photography skills. :)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Desire

So many metaphor in this passage. Architecture with language. Both contains fragments that form them.

Architecture with walls, rooms, streets, ideas; real fragments and virtual fragments; memory and fantasy; ---- Architecture stands in between. Balanced? Desire. What a big word. Another metaphor. Each setting and fragments in a movie was aimed at seduction, but always dissolved at the moment it was approached. Then each time it would be substituted by another fragment. Desire was never seen, yet remained constant. This is the beauty of it, the hard-to-get-approached of desire.

And architecture was said it was the same thing. A piece of architecture is architectural because it sets in motion the operations of seduction and the unconscious.

It is full of possibilities. It allow us to express what we wanted, the unconciously-wanting in our mind, and spread this to the others as a seduction. "It cannot satisfy the wildest fantasies but may exceed the limits set by them."

I might be able to create something in the Harry Potter story, and from the movie "Inception", create another of my own world, create desire for the people. Architecture has a lot of great possibilities.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke-