콘서트홀의 혁명 Will the Concert Hall Start a Revolution?
Will the Concert Hall Start a Revolution?
Architecture Design, Building Type Discussion – article by Brian Carter, Buffalo, NY, USA
Oct 19, 2018
The Lonely Pursuit of Studying Buildings while still in your Pyjamas – The Monthly Report
image courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects
콘서트홀의 혁명 브라이언 카터 자하 하디드 건축가들이 러시아 4대 도시에 건설할 콘서트홀을 디자인한다는 소식은 건축 유형에 대한 생각을 불러일으켰다. 그 주제에 관한 그의 주목할만한 책에서 펠프스너는 다른 건물들의 가치, 스타일과 스타일의 결과적인 고려, 재료에 대한 추측, 그리고 사회적 역사에 대한 우리의 인식을 보상적으로 증가시킬 것이라고 주장했다. 그의 '건물 유형의 역사'에서 펠프스너는 국가 기념물부터 공장, 상점, 극장, 은행, 도서관까지 17개의 다른 종류의 건물들을 식별하고 각 유형의 중요한 국제적 예를 기록하면서 매력적인 역사를 추적했다. 그는 또한 그 책을 연구하는 것이 얼마나 '외로운 추적'이었는지를 상기시켰다. 건축형태에 대한 정밀조사는 다시 외로운 추구가 된 것 같다. 예를 들어 은행을 보십시오. 얼마 전까지만 해도 그것은 금으로 된 신 고전주의 건물들과 수많은 유명 도시의 거리에 위치한 조심스럽게 조각된 돌들을 제공했다. 보안과 자신감을 드러내면서도 보호를 약속하며 중서부 전역의 작은 마을에 있는 설리번 씨의 멋진 벽돌 상자를 만든 뒤 분샤프트에 의해 우아하게 기업 강당으로 변모했다. 황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터 Ki Cheol Hwang, conpaper editor, curator |
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News that a concert hall to be built in Russia’s fourth largest city will be designed by Zaha Hadid Architects prompted thoughts about building types. In his remarkable book on that subject Pevsner asserted the value of studying different buildings, consequent considerations of style and styles, speculations about materials and the promise of a rewarding increase in our awareness of social histories.
In his ‘A History of Building Types’ Pevsner went on to identify seventeen different categories of building ranging from national monuments to factories, shops, theatres, banks and libraries and traced out fascinating histories while documenting significant international examples of each type. He also recalled how researching that book had been a ‘lonely pursuit’.
The scrutiny of building types seems again to have become a ‘lonely pursuit’. For example look at the bank. Not so long ago it offered gold domed neo-classical piles and carefully carved stones located on numerous prominent city streets. Exuding security and confidence, while promising protection, it prompted Sullivan’s splendid brick boxes in small towns across the mid-west before transforming into corporate halls eased elegantly by Bunshaft and others into equally elegant corporate towers of office space that were to be replaced by veneered cash dispensers and holes in walls.
These vestiges have subsequently been superceded by hand held devices that capture details of your account on tiny screens which can, in turn, be inspected in doorways or checked in pyjamas. In little over than a century the bank has been robbed of architecture while architects, architecture and folk in general are robbed of banks. And while the demise of the public library can be attributed to austerity, misdirected political will or a lack of creativity, it too is suddenly contested territory and a rapidly vanishing building type in our supposedly civilized worlds.
Simultaneously the anonymity of big boxes and seemingly endless reflections from equally endless glassy walls combine to reduce those buildings that remain into featureless landscapes of generic enclosed space.
As Pevsner’s list – city halls, post offices, banks, shops and libraries – is increasingly edited and buildings are shuttered by hand held devices and digital platforms, civic life, as we know it, is slipping away.
However the demise of civitas is occasionally halted and that new concert hall planned for the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra in Yekaterinburg offers hope and is to be celebrated. While there may be hints of grand foyers they appear not to overshadow closed halls as with Garnier’s Paris Opera. Instead plans for this new 1600 seat concert hall spread out the audience so all are clearly on display while musicians play against a vast backdrop of the city.
Together with a 400 seat chamber music hall this new building will hopefully help to bring back a civic life at this particular meeting place of east and west – although the few brolly wielding pedestrians shown in the architects’ perspective appear to be hurrying home across an alarmingly empty yet architecturally charged square and perhaps hardly suggests a new civic landmark bringing out the hordes, packing the streets and initiating a revolution?
Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Concert Halll by ZHA
Brian Carter, a registered architect in the UK, is Professor of Architecture at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
https://www.e-architect.co.uk/articles/will-the-concert-hall-start-a-revolution-article-by-brian-carter
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