week 9

Milton Glaser

An American Graphic Designer, well known for his iconic 'I Love New York' Symbol and posters in magazines and for artist like Bob Dylan. His style ranges experimenting with techniques from Avant Garde and sometimes even further back or from present day, his work was very unique, simple and direct. Throughout his career he has developed his own studio and broadened his horizons with New York Magazine designs and become an influence on contemporary artists, within design and illustration. He amongst many other artists are taking a stand, calling for a change of priorities, after such event of 9/11 they are renewing the 1964 manifesto (read further at [www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=18&fid=99]).

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Exercise: Compare 'Sydney Opera House' with one of Gehrys' buildings.

Rasin Building - Dancing House in Prague.

Both have a structure, the Opera House has a more geometric structure where as the Dancing House has what seems to be a random collaboration of rectangles pushed and morphed into unusual shapes. Gehrys worked from what is known as the Deconstructionism or Post-structialism, where he ignored the form follows function rule that was prevalent for the Modernists.

These two buildings have some similarities of shapes and form although the Opera House has a repeated shape, while the Dancing House has one random column oddly warped. Both attract the eye and are aesthetically pleasing to the viewer. The repetition creates a rhythm and balance throughout the Opera House design and the odd shape for the Dancing Hou

se does not create balance or unity with the rest of the building. It does however create a movement within the architecture.

Both are icons in their own rights, they mirror what they are made for and around .

The Opera House is for concerts and performances the large interior allows for music to be heard to its full extent and the exterior mimics the water or the ships sails.

The Dancing Building has a traditional building structure but branches away with one column to relate to the movement of dance.

Therefore both are similar and different but for the purpose they were created they fulfill the bill.