Sketches of Frank Gary: Paul Goldberger

"It is important...but it's not bread on the table...it gives deep depth on the background of life,"

- Paul Goldberger

It's been three and a half months since I thought in depth about architecture. Even if I haven't been thinking about it, I can't not see it. It's everywhere. It's where we eat, sleep and study. It

is in our daily lives, to a point where we don't see it that way. It fades away. Paul Goldberger is right when he says,"It's important...but not bread in the table." It's important in the sense that it makes up our daily lives. It's in our cycle. Where we eat, live, sleep, learn? In a building. And what's a building? Architecture.
As Goldberger said,"Architecture is with us all the time, like it or not." He keeps going back to the topic of Architecture being everywhere. It creates who we are "it's history, it's culture. Not only does it make up a single person's life, but it also makes up and entire population's life and history. Like our buildings, they have a unique history. They tell the story of how we progressed. How we've progressed, yet we kept our culture and incorporated it into our lives.

Why Architecture Matters

In the book, Why Architecture Matters, by Paul G, Paul explains a lot on how Thomas Jefferson's buildings had a symbol behind them. They have a reason, and answer the questions, "Why?" and "How?" He tends to mix his materials and symbols together. For example, in the University of Virginia, he combined the element of the icy white of the brick and the warmth of the red brick together. They are very contradictory, yet the coolness of the white balances the boldness of the red. At times, he tends to make his works abstract but, in the same project he flat out displays his symbols

The thing is with architecture, because it has become it has become part of our daily lives, we tend to not pay much attention to it. For example, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco or the George Pompidou Center in Paris, to tourist, it is a piece of work, nothing like it. But to it's commoners, it's just another bridge or center. We tend to look at it's uses rather than appearances after a while. Each person experiences architecture in different ways. Have different emotions associated with that building. When the building is in use, we examen each detail, yet when it's empty when skip that fact and just look at it for functions