About this book
This volume prov
ides the reader with an integrated overview of philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and a
Name of the Book : Lost Architectures
Author : Neil Spiller
Publisher :Wiley Academy
Year :2001, in Great Britain
Pages :127 pages
Introduction
With the series of unfolding of the some of the architectures which, if greatness be said about those projects then it was only felt and found in papers as they were never executed due to so many reasons. The book actually deals its rather superficial explanation on the some of the projects which could have turned into some architectural masterpiece had it been converted from drawing to the buildings on the ground. With today’s age, many if not always been said to be the era of modern architecture could well be something else which could have come from those architectures which never were built on the off-the –paper. With discussion and disclosure of few projects, it explains the reason behind the failure while it also doesn’t forsake the reasonable argument to prove why is it that we feel it lost.
Description
It discusses about the series of those projects which couldn’t be executed. The inspiring architects who worked in the twentieth century before the mechanics of computer empowered the architecture field put their works with certain sense of aesthetics blending undeniably with the angularity of certain correctness and mechanics.
The hi-tech period might have been bringing genuine fastness and precise dimensions, some of the architects whose work is present in the book might well be in a genuine situation of regret or in the deep sense of having missed to tower the genuine piece, that too in the times when things were done merely with hands rather than computer.
With the concepts of the projects being discussed, the author endeavors to uncover the mysteries behind the ideas, the journey takes us more into ourselves being asked for the answer. It demands our instinct and personal experience in worldly wisdom which those architects have thought of. Whether the concepts could have been the source of failure behind the project, or the otherwise, it remains to be debated. It has in-depth soul on reaching the souls of those lost architectures which otherwise could have become one very exemplary architecture of modern times.
My take on it
Architecture to a person who is involved so much with his soul and head in what he is doing, it means a lot to him when he experiences the form and shape he has started with pencil on paper being raised to conquer certain dimensions and attain the built form. But when it is lost, with architecture, the soul at times loses its breathe. It takes architecture to level where its worth loses its credibility, beauty and soul.
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