//week seven

reflection...until the lecture today presented by the first Chris, I had never heard of the term surrealist architecture, I thought it was an art movement of which artists such as Salvador Dali and Max Ernst pioneered and followed. Although the further I researched into this type of architecture I found out that many well known architects have incorporated surrealism into there design concepts.

http://artobserved.com/artists/salvador-dali/

In the lecture Chris expressed his interest in Fujimori's surrealist architecture, which i also found very interesting. Fujimori connects his architecture with traditions of his Japanese culture by using raw materials of great significance. His concepts are very much ideas of fantasy like the Too High Tea House, below, which is on located in Japan on his own private property. 

http://designcrack.com/v2/2007/06/27/the-too-high-tea-house-by-terunobu-fujimori/

I like the concepts and buildings that are produced via influences of surrealist art, although i do not think that they are appropriate concepts for all locations. The Too High Tea House by Fujimori is definitely an instance where it completely fits in with its surroundings and cultural influences. I also found it interesting that in Chris's talk he chose to steer clear of Frank Gehry's architecture as he didn't think that  he was a surrealist architect. Rather he thought of Gehry as a architectural sculptor, I disagree with this thought after seeing the information presented and i believe that his architecture is surrealist. His style is very different from Fujimori's, as i don't believe that it displays much cultural influences, although it is very surreal in the unusual materials and forms that are exhibited in his architecture.

I found the tutorial today quite difficult as we realised we had a few issues with the report that we had written for the city project. We realised that we had all written very similar things on our city, Chur. This occurred as it proved to be very difficult to break up the text into four parts for each group member to write a section, as all of the discoveries and things we wanted to talk about intertwined with each other. We resolved this issue by writing a structured plan for the report with topic sentences, as a group, then individually writing parts of the essay under the appropriate headings and topic sentences.