PHOTOGRAPH AS A ROLE

Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream.

During the post-war, The architects believe that with better design, it will make you a better life. The architecture can change the world.

From post-modern to modern architecture, photographs have play a significant role in the movement. It is used as a tool to delivery the message to the public. Since after the world war, people seek a better life, The American dream. It was first expressed by James Truslow Adams in 1931, "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.”

Julius always remind us about the beauty of nature. As in the beginning of the movie, when he walking around the park and said “ This is my God”. He also encourage young architect to concern about it. Photograph is not always true, it is an one ’s eye behind the rectangular object, or in other word, it is just an moment that captured by photographers. It is depended on them what to show or what not to show. In this case, Julius want people to see architecture with the landscape. The landscape has an affect on the house, and the photograph are used to tell the story of it. Moreover, to show that architecture could help people to achieve have a better life by having a better living place. For instance, the famous photo from Julius which publish in the American modern magazine “ a shot in the dark” on his case study # 22, the house of Buck and Carlotta Stahl. It is a picture that set attention the American people in many different way and it bring architecture in attention that the time. (1945-1960, at time we building the rocket to the moon). It shows that picture of a house an wide city view of LA.

Without Shulman the modern architecture would not be the way it is today, who’s know!

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CASE STUDY# 22 : HOUSE OF BUCK AND CARLOTTA STAHL

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OTHER JULIUS 'S PHOTOGRAPHS

project 1.2 presentation

Architecture as painting

>Mass and Surface
are elements by the architecture magnifies it self.

>Mass
Architecture is the matterly correct and magnificent play of the masses brought together. And light our eyes are made up to see from in light; light and shade reveal these form: cube, cone, sphere.

>Surface (holes,voids)
These are doors and walls..

Villa Savoye< Le cabusier

When outside is rectangular shape but inside can play with staircase, balcony like in his painting.
The painting has frame but the detail of the painting can be painted according to particular artists, like inside of the building. Painting has no depth. It is all about form.

Give 'Em Props!" -- Piet Mondrian

De Stijl is in post-modern style.

>Small house by SANAA

I try to overlay all the plans and see what happen to those plans. If we see plans of the house as painting. Frist, I compared both paintings. I found that the different between Le cabusier's painting and Piet Mondrain painting is the detail of the painting. In Le cabusier's painting ,the frame is in simple shape, but the painting is express in free from. Similarly to the Villa Savoye where you have simple form on the exterior and have a interior space full with different geometry, like a playground which also express in the painting. On the other hand, Piet Mondrain's painting express in very rectangular painting, It is remind me a city plan when nowadays everything are build on square land. Moreover, it also a remind me of the Utopia of Le cabusier's idea of trying to create a pattern of living. Where individuals have the same inhabitant, the idea consider modernism. However, Small house is a unique house on the middle of Toyko. Small house form is totally different from other nowadays contemporary building. The building play with exterior of the house unlike in Villa Savoye. Futhermore, inside of the house every floor has a very specific function unlike Villa savoye where inside is similar to playground with a different form. These also show two different of thinking about mass-produce architecture and unique single house. Personally for me those two house are modern house, by looking in the form but they are different in the way it represent.