Connections between subjects and their relation to architecture:
Movie: The Wizard of Oz
Architectural Phrase: Lucarne
Visual Artist: Paul Klee
Current Event: Tillie Tooter
The Wizard of Oz is one of the most well known movies based on a children's novel at the beginning of the 20th century. It wasn't expected to succeed when it finished, but over the years, the movie has gained our attention with its songs, colors, and message, and become popular by each showing.
The architectural phrase, lucarne, is a small dormer window on a spire of the Romanesque time period. http://www2.culture.gouv.fr/culture/sitessdaps/sdap80/image/conseil/maison_individuelle/lucarne.jpg>
Paul Klee was
a friend of Kandinsky and a fellow teacher at Bauhaus. He was known for his mastery in color theory, and his child-like perspective on painting. His work portrays many different styles, and each has its own interpretation.
Movie: The Wizard of Oz
Architectural Phrase: Lucarne
Visual Artist: Paul Klee
Current Event: Tillie Tooter
The Wizard of Oz is one of the most well known movies based on a children's novel at the beginning of the 20th century. It wasn't expected to succeed when it finished, but over the years, the movie has gained our attention with its songs, colors, and message, and become popular by each showing.
The architectural phrase, lucarne, is a small dormer window on a spire of the Romanesque time period. http://www2.culture.gouv.fr/culture/sitessdaps/sdap80/image/conseil/maison_individuelle/lucarne.jpg>
Paul Klee was
a friend of Kandinsky and a fellow teacher at Bauhaus. He was known for his mastery in color theory, and his child-like perspective on painting. His work portrays many different styles, and each has its own interpretation. <http://kathryndarrow.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/kleetunisian-gardens.jpg
The current event on Tillie Tooter is amazing and inspiring. Nine years ago, she flipped off a Florida highway into a swamp, and was trapped in her car for three days without being found. She collected fresh water with her socks and her steering wheel cover, eating a stick of gum, and a cough drop. The crazy thing is that she was 84 years old at the time, and is still alive and kicking today at 93.
Paul Klee is directly associated to architecture by his involvement with Bauhaus, and also related to the Wizard of Oz by his child like perspective, colors, and creativity. Similarly, the era of these to subjects relate. Klee died in 1940 and the film came out in 1939, so that may have been one of the last films he saw in his life. Tillie Tudor was also alive at the time. As a matter of fact, she was 13 at the time that the film came out, so It could have been one of the first films that she saw and remembered. She has also seen the progression that it has made in America.
While Tillie was trapped in her car for three days, she would have had to think about the construction of her car, and if there was any way that she could escape the vehicle, maybe even the safety features put into her car that allowed her to still be alive. All of this relates to the design of making humans comfortable, which is what a part of architecture and design is.
The term, lucarne, may seem that it could not relate in any way, but in this case, the lucarne is a part of Romanesque architecture, which if I recall looks a lot like the city of Oz from a distance. There were also little munchkins singing out of the dormers in Munchkinland. This may seem bizarre or elementary, but to me, it just shows that we can relate anything to architecture. It doesn't mean that all IS architecture, but it can be related to it in some way or another.
The current event on Tillie Tooter is amazing and inspiring. Nine years ago, she flipped off a Florida highway into a swamp, and was trapped in her car for three days without being found. She collected fresh water with her socks and her steering wheel cover, eating a stick of gum, and a cough drop. The crazy thing is that she was 84 years old at the time, and is still alive and kicking today at 93.
Paul Klee is directly associated to architecture by his involvement with Bauhaus, and also related to the Wizard of Oz by his child like perspective, colors, and creativity. Similarly, the era of these to subjects relate. Klee died in 1940 and the film came out in 1939, so that may have been one of the last films he saw in his life. Tillie Tudor was also alive at the time. As a matter of fact, she was 13 at the time that the film came out, so It could have been one of the first films that she saw and remembered. She has also seen the progression that it has made in America.
While Tillie was trapped in her car for three days, she would have had to think about the construction of her car, and if there was any way that she could escape the vehicle, maybe even the safety features put into her car that allowed her to still be alive. All of this relates to the design of making humans comfortable, which is what a part of architecture and design is.
The term, lucarne, may seem that it could not relate in any way, but in this case, the lucarne is a part of Romanesque architecture, which if I recall looks a lot like the city of Oz from a distance. There were also little munchkins singing out of the dormers in Munchkinland. This may seem bizarre or elementary, but to me, it just shows that we can relate anything to architecture. It doesn't mean that all IS architecture, but it can be related to it in some way or another.
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