PICTURE READING

MASKS OF LONDON FESTIVAL 19

VISUAL ( form , texture, color,etc)

CONTEXTUAL ( who is the artist and what is the circumstances? )

NON VISUAL ( what's the statement or content? )

 THIS IS WHAT I INTERPRET

I WILL TRY TO BE CONVINCING

VISUAL INFERENCE FROM THE PATTERNS

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

JASON POLLOCK'S PAINTINGS

I TRIED TO READ IT VISUALLY FROM
THE FORM AND MATERIAL

DOMINATING

TRIBAL

AFRICAN

VOODO MASKS

CRITICAL REGIONALIST

VERNACULAR ,FROM MATERIALS USED

DOMINATING AND BOLD

STYLE OF FL WRIGHT
BEST EXAMPLE : FALLING WATER
WHYF L WRIGHT ?

PLAY OF HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL

PRAIRE STYLE

CANTILEVERED FLAT ROOFS

VERTICAL CHIMNEYS

NEUTRAL EARTHY TONES

MINIMAL COLOURS

ROBBIE HOUSE

FALLING WATER
THE NEXT ONE IS

MORE LIKE

NON VISUAL READING

WHAT IS IN THE PICTURE ? But

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS PICTURE?

SHE IS LOOKING THROUGH A LENS ATTACHED

TO A TRANSPPARENT RESIN MASK

HER FACE IS SMALL AND OUT OF FORM

ITS IS SAME BUT FOR THE VIEWER

ITS DISTRORTED

SO THE STATEMENT IS DISTORTION

DISTORTED

DECONSTRUCTED

PLAY OF PERSPECTIVE

MANY VANISHING POINTS

GIVING A NEW WAY TO SEE

THE BUILDING ?

VITR A FIRE STATION

a fire station for a furniture factory estate in north Switzerland

ZAHA HADID, 1 9 9 0 – 93
This building is subverting (what some
might call the natural order of) orthogonal
geometry as a foundation of architectural
composition

“OBEYS” ITS OWN LAWS”

IT OBEYS ITS OWN LAWS OF

PERSPECTIVE
WE DESIGN IN THE SPACE

ZAHA THOUGHT

“WHAT IF SPACE ITSELF

IS CURVED OR DISTORTED”

lines converge towards

a curved horizon
The distortions were then
translated into the
form of the building itself.
The ruler (straight edge and scale
rule) is the magic wand of the
architect;
It governs the process of design
and establishes relationships in
form and space. Zaha Hadid’s
drawings explore what happens
to architecture when the ruler is
curved rather than straight
and the authority of the right
angle is subverted.
Architecture need not depend on
orthogonal
geometry.

It can be free of the vertical and

the right-angle.

CONVENTION OF ORTOGONAL drawing

(plan, section, elevation) and of
perspective
(lines converging on a vanishing
point at the horizon),

She
employed a drawing technique that
distorted (warped) both.
‘The box encloses, confining one like a coffin.
But if we separate the box’s six planes, we
have performed the revolutionary act of modern
architecture. The panels can be lengthened or
shortened to vary the light in fluid spaces.
Once the box has been broken up, the spaces can
perform their functions in total freedom.

- Zaha Haidd
“IT IS AS IF ZAHA WAS SHOWING US THROUGH HER LENS
TO A TOTALLY NEW WAY OF DESIGNING BUILDINGS

ITS IS AS IF SHE PUT A MASK OF DISTORTION

TO THE VITRA FIRE STAION
THANK YOU
I COULD FIND ONLY ONE BUILDING, BUT I EXPLORED MORE MASKS

THE REASON ?
I DIDNT TAKE IT AS A TASK , BUT MORE AS AN EXCERCISE

THANK YOU AGAIN