BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS) IN ARCHITECTURE

THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM (ARC61303

SYNOPSIS: REACTION PAPER (August 2017)

Name: Benjamin Tan Zi Hern ID No.: 0324857

Lecturer: Mr. Prince Favis Isip Tutorial Time: 10-11
Reader/Text Title: Body, Memory & Architecture Synopsis No: 2
Author: Kent Bloomer & Charles Moore
Kent Bloomer and Charles Moores Body, Memory and Architecture stats that the
inhabited world within boundaries can be ascribed a syntax of place, path, pattern, and
edge. The prime characteristic of a public place is public inhabitability. Paths are straight
lines and curves which can intersect. It has a nature as void ready to receive human
movement, depending on and uniting the surfaces that front on it. A more prevalent kind
of architectural path is the street, edged on one or both sides continuous buildings or
flanked by free-standing structures with spaces in between. Patterns are composed
mostly of paths and places, but it is the system by which they are related that allows us to
make sense of a bounded space. Even though paths and places make up major variables
in determining patterns, the system by which they are associated determines the logic of
a bounded space. Pattern of connections laid upon the earth within those boundaries
producing inner edges which comprehension of the place depends.

The author identified what missing from our dwellings today are the potential
transactions between body, imagination, and environment. Comfort is confused with the
absence of sensation. The collision in which buildings or landscape come against one
another is important in the making of memorable places. This collision in which neither
side loses their identities should be achieved.

According to the author, architectural design thus become a choreography of collision

which does not impair the inner vitality of its parts in expressing a collective statement
through them. To a certain scale, all places can be remembered, partly due to how the
architecture generates complex impressions or ideated sensations in our senses. In my
opinion, a true architectural quality is imbued in the richness of the experience resulting in
a complete interaction happens between space and the user.

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