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| The Pillow Book - Peter Greenaway |
People during nowadays have gone a long way through a progress. Finally though, they become victims of the progress itself. They separate their
bodies more and more from their senses.
Without knowing anything about
themselves, their traditions, their nature, they are confused. They should start exploring their bodies and the world by senses.
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| Thinking hand - Juhani Pallasmaa |
In general, the most important sense for architects and artist is the sense
of touch. With our hands we can touch the architecture in order to understand
the nature and the real shape of things. The hands improve impossible tasks to recreate
the very essence of the object. It is the meaning of life in all sensory
manifestations.
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| ‘‘The hand is the window into the mind.‘‘ Immanueal Kant |
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| The rape of Proserpina Bernini |
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| The Incredulity of Saint Thomas Caravaggio |
Another important knowledge, which we can gain with
our hands, is the actual contact with the material. The more we know about
material the better. We can use it to design. Architects should also be artisans
and moreover they should be involved into the whole process of construction,
not only create the proposal in the end as it has been done in the past.
‘’The tradition of
craftsmanship is clearly gaining increasing value and appreciation in today’s
reality of the technological world, mechanical production, and the regrettable
loss of the touch of the human hand in our mechanically mass-produced products
and environments. In traditional cultures the entire life world is the product
of human hands, and the daily sphere of work and life means an endless passing
of the hand skills and their products on to others and traditional life world
is a continuous meeting and joining of the hands of successive generations.’’ - Juhani Pallasmaa
Figurative architects
should touched on local human needs and diversity which is resulting from them. Consequently, the essential time
dimension of art points to the past rather than the future significant art and
architecture maintains roots and traditions instead of uprooting and inventing.
Humanity was on the
brink of rebirth in the beginning of the 20th century. It was necessary
to find
new forms of expression. The main theme in that period was to shake off
everything old, embellished or unhygienic. But the main futurisms manifest of
the whole modern architecture was speed, progress and science. The era without
touch began. People forgot about their traditions, which are a direct link to
the past and the cultural heritage. Mass production has destroyed uniqueness
and local diversity.
Local
diversity is a way to design
buildings, a form of
emphasizing effectiveness, energy
consumption, reasonable conceived proposals and self-sufficiency. The main part within such a project focuses on natural
materials, which can be found mainly in surrounding and local areas. Furthermore, the
material should be recyclable and reusable. This in turn obviously saves energy within the entire construction process as well as during the long process
of maintenance. In other words: Sustainable architecture is coherent and
temporally adapted architecture. The colors and materials
are not fashion trends but they have typically local ornaments or just pigments
from the area, which enables diversity within the creation. The more varied the
architecture of the city is, the better remembered it will be in the end .
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