Post Class Blog

The material for today’s class was challenging for me. As we discussed in class, it was the author’s style of writing that hindered me from fully understanding the topic. Even though the writing style of Venturi was hard for me to understand, our fruitful class discussion helped me appreciate the topics at hand. What stood out to me in our conversation today was when we talked about the architecture of the city of Celebration,  and how it emulates the concept of urbane urbanism. With being a Florida native, I have never really paid close attention to the architecture of the town until today. As we learned today, urbane urbanism is when something looks like it was made a long time ago but wasn’t. With learning about the history of Celebration and thinking about its architecture, it was crazy to finally put a definition of the architecture that was built in that city. When I first moved to Florida, I always thought that the town of celebration was very “old-timey” and emulated a time that was far older than the present. With learning about the concept of urbane urbanism and learning about the Disney influence within the town, I can start drawing parallels between the literature and the real world.

Also, the concept of tmesis hit me hard during our class discussion. While discussing Disharmonious Harmony, I was trying to fill in the blanks to make sense of the building itself and its purpose. For example, the image of the bank building made me think about so many different questions concerning the population of the workers and what was the buildings architectural purpose. For me, this concept of Disharmonious Harmony was kind of hard because of my wandering thoughts and my questioning towards the architecture. With applying the idea of tmesis,  I caught myself trying to fill in the blanks in almost every structure we saw in class today. Today’s lesson honestly helped me think critically about architecture and look at structures in a different light. I am thankful for my classmate Renne because she was able to help us understand some architecture structures due to her art history background. Her explanation of the structures was beneficial for my learning process.