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September 28, 2005
Plasticity of Motion
After reading this, I began to think more about the ways exteriors reflect interiors, the ways function and purpose will effect form. The correlation in this case between acting and architecture is not obvious, but once I attempted to see the world through Stanislavski's eyes, I began to wonder why it isn't obvious, why it's so much easier to keep these ideas stuck to one genre without ever influencing the other (unless, for instance, you're an actor trying to grasp "space" through the ideas you've already learned). If I'm an actor, should I necessarily have a different view/idea/experience of space than would an architect, just as an architect would see a plot of land differently than would a gardener? If emotional memories are likely to have an effect upon the movement of one's body, one might find it obvious that the emotions/thoughts/memories of someone drawing up plans would effect the plans and effect the physical building itself. If by removing a person from his/her comfort zone one can impact that person's body signals, would the same awkwardness or compensatory audacity impact a building that seems out of place in its surroundings not by actually being as such but because we project our humanity onto our structures?
Posted by Demi Pietchell at September 28, 2005 12:40 AM