Material, Immaterial, The Phenomenological Space

Silesian Museum Katowice - Riegler Riewe Architekten

Course: City Is In The Details

Professor: Pina Petricone

School: University of Toronto Daniels Faculty

Adolf Loos, in Ornament and Crime, suggests that ornament is not organically linked nor is it an expression of our culture, thus, if used, is wasteful and negligent to modern society. I believe in an alternative where modernity has taken the most apparent gesture of large monoliths providing ornament that is directly ‘connected to us’, has ‘human connections’, and ‘connects with the world order. This is where the current use of the detail, and its layers, subtly sculpts the building to capture materiality at its most pure as ornament, its texture and implicit capabilities. This paper begins to describe, through Riegler Riewe Architekten’s work on the Silesian Museum, material, immaterial, and the phenomenological space.

In school, recent contemporary architecture, in my opinion, is seldom discussed and challenged. The likes of architects such as Jean Nouvel, Steven Holl, and David Chipperfield are of great importance in a multitude of techniques and methodologies. Linking elements to their architecture emerge by way of material choices and their textural relationship to tectonics and cultural significance. Similarly, the Silesian Museum draws on the sites historic past via illustration through materiality and technological approach.

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Material, Immaterial, The Phenomenological Space

Silesian Museum Katowice - Riegler Riewe Architekten

Course: City Is In The Details

Professor: Pina Petricone

School: University of Toronto Daniels Faculty

Adolf Loos, in Ornament and Crime, suggests that ornament is not organically linked nor is it an expression of our culture, thus, if used, is wasteful and negligent to modern society. I believe in an alternative where modernity has taken the most apparent gesture of large monoliths providing ornament that is directly ‘connected to us’, has ‘human connections’, and ‘connects with the world order. This is where the current use of the detail, and its layers, subtly sculpts the building to capture materiality at its most pure as ornament, its texture and implicit capabilities. This paper begins to describe, through Riegler Riewe Architekten’s work on the Silesian Museum, material, immaterial, and the phenomenological space.

In school, recent contemporary architecture, in my opinion, is seldom discussed and challenged. The likes of architects such as Jean Nouvel, Steven Holl, and David Chipperfield are of great importance in a multitude of techniques and methodologies. Linking elements to their architecture emerge by way of material choices and their textural relationship to tectonics and cultural significance. Similarly, the Silesian Museum draws on the sites historic past via illustration through materiality and technological approach.

Please click link to download full PDF booklet: