Reading Response: 'The Muses Are Not Amused' Response'

Architecture serves its environment, and is contextualized by its adjacencies and cultural influences that evoke the design. Within this article I find many contradictions between the process of creating architecture and the social implications that influence the resolution. Talking about architecture as a creative process that is heavily created from our own desire and value system is something I truly believe in. "Programism" as the leading proponent to the creation of a building should be seen as part of the process in the execution of a building, not the sole factor. The "articula[tion]" between "the passage from data to form," should be explored and investigated thoroughly. In regards to blob architecture, I could not agree more. I understand how technology is the major catalyst to many influential and inspirational projects, but using a new technology does not warrant forgetting some of the fundamental basics of design. Understanding how new technology interacts with older precedent forms of construction should be investigated more. The loss of a contextualize location seems to be a major characteristic of blob architecture. What makes a building so unique and experiential is its connection to its environment. Allowing for a more primal understanding of a site creates more opportunity of exploration than can be modeled or simulated by a computer. This tactile sense of examining a space engages more than just a "wow" factor, but a memorable experience.

Silvetti's outlook of the baroque period compared to current events seems to speak more to how a society can influence architecture. All of the different styles and heavy articulation of literal and figurative ideals stem from a particular set of value systems. This investigation is something that I truly find fascinating. The perception of architecture has skewed as time progresses. The more architecture evolves the less you understand about its influences. Silvetti talks about the necessity of design having a strong connection to its historical precedent but also stay true to its current realization. The evolution of the built environment will succeed only if it takes into account all of the factors presented. "Architecture as the sole source of architecture could look at anything as formal inspiration...keeping its footings in its building core, anchoring its imagination in a programmatic research beyond literal formal translations, and continuing in the flow of its own cultural trajectory;" only through understanding these relationships can architecture become something more.