C U R A T O R I A L 

“People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing”( Paola Antonelli(2005)

Both Norman Foster and Jørn Utzon have created forms, which were both missing in the world before their beautiful minds generated their buildings, which combined technology, cognitive science, human needs a beauty. Utzons Sydney Opera House screams fluidity and curvature from one side of the design to the other, in a sense it links to French Rococo as it has wave like form which links to how the designs from the 1800 loved aquatics. Rococo style can be identified as  “Free-form curves (including S- and C-curves), shell forms, asymmetry, natural forms, exotic motifs and scroll work” (Jeannie Ireland (2009, pg 314) which are all present in Utzons design. Fosters design is more simplistic as it consists of numerous straight lines creating a motif of diamonds running up the design.

Both of these designs brought this art inspiration when constructing the model. A shell form conforming each other creates the basis of the model as a straight wire creating a stand and contrasting the fluidity with linear design to create a design with more cognitive science holds it together. The intial shell idea was differentiated from Utzon design. The aesthetics of hierarchy heavily influenced the design as the way the shell gradually reduces in size. Fosters function is shown in the design as the wire forms a base for my model, which provides strength. The main influence of the model design is beauty.

Refrences:

Jeannie Ireland. (2009). History of Interior Design. New York: Fairchild Books, Inc.

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Paola Antonelli (2005), 80+ Inspiring Quotes about Design

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