Symbolism And Architecture

Symbolism and architecture

Introduction

Each architect generates its own concept that it is architecture, but if there is something that can be related to many of them is the importance of space for them. In a definition of architecture as a refuge with Overflowing decoration of Robert Venturi, he wants to make us know what his concept of architecture is and that we can learn from the existing landscape. They wanted to imitate Rome in what is Las Vegas today, and they did not succeed because they did not go on the symbolic content and only focused on functional and structural characteristics. 

Developing

From its comparisons it shows the importance of a balance between the symbolism, space and functionality of an architecture. All this, because if you think only of the function and structure of what we are creating we would make it very abstract;And if the ornaments are exceeded, it becomes something empty. Venturi teaches us a commercial vernacular architecture and this grants us to understand that there is a disintegration between the symbolism and the volume of the building and the space that is generated. 

A group preserved that architecture cannot constitute beauty, said that when it is signed with the structure and the program it will be expressive by itself. And Venturi clarifies that the struggle between function and symbolism should not have to coexist, and they must make the two find the way to work without one overcoming the other.

They are understood that it is not essential to refer to space in an abstract way, the idea of giving a concept to architecture to assume meaning and thus appreciate architecture through the expression. An architect should look for these foundations to relate,

On the contrary, what Bruno Zevi shows in his book an obvious reality and is the lack of knowledge of people about architecture, thus generating little appreciation for this, becoming something admired by the superficial, when that becomessomething secondary, since the essentiality of architecture lies in the role that space plays in this. 

The architecture has 4 dimensions and not only three as the sculpture possesses, it has the point of view that is what helps perceive the space. Zevi with his apology “Everyone owns the radio, deserting the concerts, hate cinema and theater and not reading a book, but no one can close their eyes in front of all the buildings that make up the scene of the scene of theCitizen life and lead the seal of man to the fields and the landscape ”it makes it very clear that architecture is undeniable that is always noticeable and that the space is more pleasant. 

conclusion

It also exposes the fact that architecture is made to live it and that space is where this develops, so it usually considers that several works are not architectures. The space, in one way or another for both remains equally important, since it is considered as an essential part of the architecture, because it is the key for the buildings to be understood and admired beyond what their facades show. Without neglecting the aesthetic.