As someone who has live in the vertical apartments in Singapore my whole life, I didn't realise why my country is making so many strange buildings until recently. I have been living in a high rise prison my entire life. Many parts of Singapore are now adopting non traditional architecture that greatly increases the infrastructure on a personal level. These buildings aren't just there to look different, they also function on a much higher level than what elongated cubes can do. The fiction he is describing is not fairy tales, but, a narrative of functions, a series of the functions that the people occupying the building perform. A building is not just space that people fill up, it is a space where people do things. And these buildings are designed to allow people to perform a series of functions at greater efficiency than a normal tower. For example, the Chinese news tower is built in a way where the different sections are specifically arranged to allow maximum production efficiency, where all the work will be passed through the production line all the way to the top and meet in the middle where they collect all the materials for broadcasting. This in fact allows architecture to perform functions much more efficiently than a traditional "form follows function" box.
+GuyWithAnAmazingHat Traditional "form follows function"? His best example, the apartment complex in Singapore, is all about form follows function. The appreciable form of the complex is a result of it's functionality, it is constructed from the simplest shape possible but aligned in a way that allows high functionality at the same time.
TheAnnoyingGunner Of course, I'm not saying that form follows function is gone, in fact form follows fiction is an updated and extended principle of form following function. It is a principle that serves to follow the functions of everyone that occupies the building, the stories and purposes that everyone has.
You have given a better interpretation of what the speaker wanted to say, people who critic his architecture actually fall into same scenario that only see what is in the surface, or in this case, ugliness. I think real beauty is in the life, not in the eyes.
The renowned German Architect Ole Scheeren gives a breathtaking showcase of his architectural work and shows how the modern buildings to be built. Applying critical thinking with structural designs, his team had created some of the marvelous landscapes across the globe. it's a very fascinating for everyone, including the students of Architecture. Highly recoomended.
TED videos sure must be full of educated, intelligent people who are able to listen and understand, and can formulate a point without insulting. *goes to comment section* *fliesaway*
as an architecture student. this is amazing work. yes it is not a sustainable building project in a slum somewhere which serves the greater good but this is in a different context. these buildings are for the working middle or upper class. In that context these designs are path breaking
@@aedaldanielI suppose he argues for the progression of technology as a destruction of all humanity in general. Though this is not possible with this post-post-modern architecture where we are instilling history, psychology, and biology in order to conceive new ideas.
So many thanks to this nice video clip which includes the essence of the story-telling art of architectures! This video had definitely demonstrated 3 confusion about architectures of mine. 1 is: How structure designs associated to so many aspects of informations, such as biology, ministration and collaboration? 2 is: How to identify the group of people and their inhabitants by viewing the outlook of their office buildings? 3 is: What is the Modern Art of buildings nowadays? And I have found the explanation of all of them in this video.🥰
Most of negative comment derive by the fear of people with new things and new ideas to live the Earth. Thank the artchitectes, because they do this work for us. Sorry my english, I was still learning
...perhaps that's because he's pushing postmodern architecture, which wars against the fact that truth is absolute and never changes, which postmodernism counters.
¡Scheeren es un crack! Soy profesor de estructuras en una universidad en Guatemala (URL) y se decirles que la narrativa de la historia del edificio debe estar en completa armonía con la estructura. Scheeren es audaz y logra el cometido.
15:09 this is a great idea .. especially throughout school buildings . student can interact and collaborate with no partitions at all sure this would ensure a new world of studying
The people who laughed at the pic (6:26) bet they never taught 4 years later wearing masks and being in the wedding is totally normal thanks to COVID19 :)
Love you TED! We're actually doing a 30-challenge of TED videos. For the month of Feb (2016) we are well on our way to watching a ted video every single day! 😊
Hi greetings from 2020, we are in the midst of a pandemic, it kinda concerns me that the goal in most of these buildings were to get people together and be in a community. I hope we can go back to this ideal life.
the guy just did a commercial for himself "hire me, hire me, I am such a cool guy" There was no story in his speech or his buildings, he just showcased how great design they do.
This is exciting , why do so many architects complain so much when there are so many opportunities out there ? It almost makes no sense to say it's a dying field when you see this kind of innovation taking place. Offices and schools will become playgrounds for people to interact more closely. This is amazing
Wow! Until now, I was only interested in historic Archetecture, but shown and explained this way, modern archetecture is truly intriguing in it's own right.
I like the way it makes buildings more active and compact, just like the trends of urbanism, but I really miss this going to the population in these projects. These buildings are still in kinda isolated spaces and are built for really restricted targets. The London project is a little better in this aspect though, even being located in a more or less sparse place.
Being Aesthetically pleasing IS a function. Providing connection and continuity to the past IS a function. Harmony with a particular place and its existing aesthetics IS a function. Being identifiable to a particular people as “ours” IS a function. Making architecture functional in all of these ways enhances its value. The modern, international, style and adjacent are crimes against humanity. Acts of aesthetic aggression, cultural destruction and theft of value.
i don't understand this. people getting mad for all the money spent on form architecture and saying its a waste of money. you can see it in this way: its money spent on breaking the boundaries of architecture and engineering, exploration just like billions been spent on science for eg nasa. i means billions spent to discover more galaxies that wont probably affect life right now....but it would probably matter in the future right? the same goes for this guy and many other architects. theyre testing the waters, making progress in the architecture industry. many people cant just see that right now and assuming they understand what is important without being experts in the subjects first. you want to save money? cut down the money on ammunition, cut down food wastage, cut down money spent on useless entertainment like the kardashians or smth
He should keep designing buildings, but shut his stupid mouth. His buildings are awesome. But what his mouth is spewing is a wave of meaningless buzzwords and boundless arrogance.
When I was starting my career I've always thought of myself as an artist. As I start to delve deeper, a lesson hit me "Lookin pretty is not top priority" and boy that was tough to swallow. Aesthetically pleasing work wows people but it opens a ton of questions. What's this? what's that? what is that for? this doesn't look right? FUNCTION first. FORM follows. And you can always maximize BOTH. It's also more feasible and offers a bigger challenge in terms of creativity. I'm an artist but I'm a designer first (web tech).
That singapore apt complex is very cool. If I wanted to live in a box it could be one of those. But imo architecture is at its best designing family homes, not ant farms.
Zepherian architecture is solving a human situation. Asia is a high density society. Single family homes does not solve those challenges. In the states single home designs are ok because the density and space permit that approach. Architecture is solving situations for humanity that enrich one’s life as well as that of the community it is serving.
I'd appreciate highrise architecture that is a bit more intertwined. Not two buildings but a whole bunch of towers and smaller buildings that are close to each other and are connected by bridges on various heights. Streets on the ground are pretty much designed for vehicles instead of pedestrians in this modern world. Those bridges enable the whole city to grow vertically and can be used for small shops, cafe's and so on. It'd be pretty cool.
Does interpretation influences the design quality itself? Everyone call that CCTV building "big underpants" in China, what a nice story for us to share.
Architecture that tells a story? The first one that comes to my mind is Favela, the slum surrounding Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. It's organic, vivid, and most importantly, it's built by the people who live it and not by architects. Structures are constantly taken down and re-piled up. It may not be pretty, but it's alive. All architects face a dilemma -- they need to come up with a grand plan before capital can be committed. So they "imagine" who's going to use it and how, just to create a narrative for the plan. But once it's built, there's little validation of their theory, as the chance of taking down and rebuilding a brand new skyscraper is zero.
You don't get the idea of narrative, he is talking about how people live their lives interacting with architecture, and the possibility of understanding that with this histories and propose new and better possibilities. It's not poetry or a sales point (though it might be used like one) its a tool, a way to think and better understand the program and open the game. I do think that your last point about validation is fair but of course that is true for every building, and considering that lifestyles really change in the last years (and we really have problems to conect people phisically) we really need architects to adapt and propose projects for the new era and spaces that promote human interactions, skyscrapers won't do it. By the way i'm not english speaker, so ignore my grammar it's probably a mess.
I'm not sure if you are really brazilian,so I'll stick with the english language. Favelas kinda resemble Kasbahs in the islamic world.But they weren't build to be organic or vivid,they follow the "form follows function" of ugly buildings of the 20th century that like the slums,get destroyed and rebuilt to follow another owner's functions.If you want to find an architecture that teels a history,go back when beauty did matter. Look at the Traboules in Lyon,France.They were built to facilitate the silk transport from the river to the markets,and they remember me of the beautiful galleries of Curitiba and the alleys in Rio's favelas.Those alleys tell the history of the city,and they weren't destroyed and rebuilt again to follow another function,even those their original function as an easy transportation of silk products no longer exist. Now look at the Whitewashed,Wattle-and-daub style of houses of Medieval Germany.They tell a history of adaptation,like Rio's brick favelas.Just like Northeast Brazil,Wattle-and-daub is easy to craft,it's the poor man's plaster.Combine that with overhangs to raise the amount of floor space in the upper floors,because streets back then were narrow and they need more space in the cramped buildings,and beautiful cities were born like that,then Germans came to Brazil and built lovely towns like Pomerode in Santa Catarina,even though they could build with any other style. A building can only tell a story by it's walls and it's shape,they have no voices of their own.And a story should be beautiful,or else,just like slum houses o soviet(or Brasília)-style brutalist apartment buildings,they will get destroyed when it's function dissapear. Tenha um bom dia.
There are many different ideas and method that architects would be able to design, but so much cases are not built, since it is too hard to convince or even impossible to meet clients who are able to grasp and agree to execute. There landmark proejcts are truly amazing for the city, even if CCTV is required to built up the structure space as much as usuable space, Singapore apartment lost household privacy extensively, and Collaborative Cloud overall mass conflicts with great opening space. Making decision to those ideas and bringing them into realization are an amazing talent as an architect. It is truly great talk and amazing presentation.
haha, he has totally found his niche design point! Whatever buzzword, jargon-filled justification he gives, at least it is a novel approach to design and produces some interesting architecture.
The Interlace building is not selling well from what i heard, the design is out of the box from a design perspective. but honestly i heard a lot of feedbacks and this building is not well-received by the locals. Great design architecture may not be the most functional architecture.
In the end it is just another soulless concrete box with a sheet of mirror-glass, just with a slightly different shape and a lot of architectural Blabla to make it sound more than it really is.
I like most of his work that he designed except for the floating cinema in Thailand. I strongly disagree that he should have built a cinema on an island because it is disruptive to nature and unnecessary. I believe that the island is beautiful as it is and it should be preserved for its natural beauty. Even though he used recycled plastic to build the cinema, I still believe that a movie theater should have its own building that is not around an island.
+letsgoiowa Exactly. I'm all for open spaces integrated in buildings, aspecially huge ones, but the ones shown in the presentation are confusing for the user and the open spaces were forced in, not serving any purpose, simply making the maintenance way more difficult.
+letsgoiowa While I found his first example to be a pretty much pointless architecture, the second one with the stacked buildings seems to be pretty much functional and probably the apex of his (?) work. The third one (the "cloud") was somewhat of a downgrade from that as there are still way too much rooms in it's core away from the sunlight and the last one is a nightmare for every visitor as it is clearly hard to navigate. Is the second one a one hit wonder?
TheAnnoyingGunner Sure, have fun navigating through a hexagonal, three-dismentional maze EVERY TIME coming back home. Imagine if you were drunk or needed to use a different entrance than usual (I would assume that there are more than a handful of them).
Mezurashii5 In the beginning it will be a bit confusing, but as you live there, you will become accustomed to the architecture pretty fast. If you use an architecture that is equally unintuitive for a public service building, then it is simply bad design...
That “loop” building could look cool in 2004 but now it looks already tired and dated. Architecture of 1800s or earlier still looks fantastic. We can’t build things that last.
+oldcowbb I think it is the overuse of meaningless buzzwords and the fact the some of the Buildings didn't look so great. I thought they looked okay, I liked the floating cinema but not a fan of the London olympics building.
maybe it's new in their ears or some are so self-absorbed with their designs, they forget to consider the stories of people and their experiences they are designing for. The speaker is great he is bringing up the User Experience Design principles in his architectures.
To have the best understanding of the Absurd, just combining this guy's idealism speech about CMG Headquarters and the banner shows in 5:37 - "欢迎各位领导莅临指导" （“it's our honor that each leader could come to visit and guide us”）
15:56 Big British Brother is watching you. Always. So the structure that serves fishermen to earn their sustenance, now it's been con(per)verted into a floating entertainment follie... Good job.
I'm still not sold on narrative as the basis for good design. I understand programmatic relationship is important but the idea that it should be based off of a fictional narrative as Bernard Schumi suggests seems arbitrary. Regardless, I do love OMA's thorough approach to architecture.
My idea of architecture is never just vertical ( Vertical City ) nor jus horizontal ( like this one); but horizontal-vertical. Because the land is never dead flat, land is ups and downs. But they don't manufacture land any more, therefore we are forced to go vertically. Therefore, I have been working on a container housing project for over 18 years by now, called Great Wall Village. Facebook / George Wu, 2019-7-1, George Wu, ARCHITECT, A.I.A., NCARB.
I actually like the hexagonally stacked housing blocks. The other buildings I didn't really care for, but damn, if Berlin-Marzahn was build that way instead of all the Plattenbauten...
I think we shoud to look for a new way to live and the architecture of the nowdays is helping us to do that. Of couse, everything sounds good when he's talking or when we see the pics but I wished know the opinions of the people that live right there! Everything really works? When he said that in "the interlace" all departaments have a natural light or ventilation I trhoug... "all?" Btw, Its very beatiful see new buildings like that around the city. JUST GIVE ME A JOB PLEASEEEE, OLE!
It should be mandatory that architects marry interior designers and have landscapers as best friends - maybe then some of the dismal buildings would not be so awful.
saltnlightful having some householding person with them could help as people living apart from workspaces is inconvenient, especially as location looses meaning in many industries
Yes, this is great, architecture should tell a story and experience of people, I think he is applying the principles of User Experience Design in his architecture, haters should search what is UXD. the "5 characters of people" he introduce is called "personas" in UXD, every step in design should be backedup by information most are from people's stories, experiences and their ways of life. should consider psychology in your architectures.
I guess I will still prefer the beauty of simplicity. Form doesn't follow function, it is the function. This is why most modern firearms are almost disturbingly appealing to the eye.
You have no idea how much I dislike skyscrapers and entirely glass-clad buildings. They seem to lack a meaningful narrative. As an architect, I find the story behind the building and the philosophy of creating its elements and spaces to be of utmost importance in every design I undertake. Unfortunately, I haven't had the opportunity to work with larger and more renowned companies. The company I currently work for has a focus on cost-efficient commercial building projects, which often means sacrificing some of the creative aspects. Nevertheless, I continue to put in effort to satisfy my fundamental goal of creating something that tells a meaningful story.
Who flocks to vacation in cities full of uninspired, depressing concrete and steel totalitarian blobs and blocks? Hands? Nobody is impressed by anything made after WWII. Anyone who pretends to be is either an architect who paid through the nose for such “insight,” or they’re just lying. It’s fucking cruel to tear down beauty and force us to live among all this ugliness. *Fucking cruel.* Take your eccentricity to your own home. God knows the family who lived in a Peter Eismann home quickly realized how fucking stupid they were for moving into it. They wrote an entire book on the horrid experience. It’s time to bring the talented craftsmen back and take out the modern/postmodern/blob/brutalist garbage once and for all. God knows we’ve put up with it for long enough.
Seems to me we are being dictated to . And if that's the case architects should stay verbally quiet and let the buildings of their minds do the talking. In the long run these designs and concepts won't matter because the amount of resources required are devastating to our planet. Projects like these and the building industry at latge are resposible for 40% of global warming. Net zero by 2050 is a lofty goal. People need to live closer to the earth. In the end citizens should have a say about the public space architecture in their communities and if built and not liked said citizens should have the right to have it demolished . There are too many of us monkeys on this mudball.
As someone who has live in the vertical apartments in Singapore my whole life, I didn't realise why my country is making so many strange buildings until recently. I have been living in a high rise prison my entire life.
Many parts of Singapore are now adopting non traditional architecture that greatly increases the infrastructure on a personal level. These buildings aren't just there to look different, they also function on a much higher level than what elongated cubes can do.
The fiction he is describing is not fairy tales, but, a narrative of functions, a series of the functions that the people occupying the building perform. A building is not just space that people fill up, it is a space where people do things. And these buildings are designed to allow people to perform a series of functions at greater efficiency than a normal tower.
For example, the Chinese news tower is built in a way where the different sections are specifically arranged to allow maximum production efficiency, where all the work will be passed through the production line all the way to the top and meet in the middle where they collect all the materials for broadcasting.
This in fact allows architecture to perform functions much more efficiently than a traditional "form follows function" box.
+GuyWithAnAmazingHat
Traditional "form follows function"? His best example, the apartment complex in Singapore, is all about form follows function. The appreciable form of the complex is a result of it's functionality, it is constructed from the simplest shape possible but aligned in a way that allows high functionality at the same time.
TheAnnoyingGunner Of course, I'm not saying that form follows function is gone, in fact form follows fiction is an updated and extended principle of form following function.
It is a principle that serves to follow the functions of everyone that occupies the building, the stories and purposes that everyone has.
GuyWithAnAmazingHat
Maybe the name he used is simply too artsy for me to understand...
You have given a better interpretation of what the speaker wanted to say, people who critic his architecture actually fall into same scenario that only see what is in the surface, or in this case, ugliness. I think real beauty is in the life, not in the eyes.
@@wchingfong cant believe there are people who dont find his architecture beautiful
The renowned German Architect Ole Scheeren gives a breathtaking showcase of his architectural work and shows how the modern buildings to be built. Applying critical thinking with structural designs, his team had created some of the marvelous landscapes across the globe. it's a very fascinating for everyone, including the students of Architecture. Highly recoomended.
Man, this dude is taking the words out of my head, I think I’m finally in the right profession.
Are you an architect now?
It really is, my brother
Notice the big difference between his words, and the final result of the buildings he produces.
TED videos sure must be full of educated, intelligent people who are able to listen and understand, and can formulate a point without insulting.
*goes to comment section*
*fliesaway*
+Robersora
Bye, don't fly too close to the sun...
+TheAnnoyingGunner Heh, clever comeback.
What's more depressing is the fact that the community of TED is getting more conservative and radical.
+Robersora I meant the people who are watching the talks
+Ognjen Basic I think its more about the people who decide to comment. They're more likely to share a negative opinion than a positive one.
as an architecture student.
this is amazing work. yes it is not a sustainable building project in a slum somewhere which serves the greater good but this is in a different context. these buildings are for the working middle or upper class. In that context these designs are path breaking
As a cultural anthropology student, I too think it's fascinating.
As a student of life, I find his architecture to be the building blocks of dystopia.
@@marcv2648 why? I think this is more like the ancient cities where the place has all the functions for a people to live comfortably
@@aedaldanielI suppose he argues for the progression of technology as a destruction of all humanity in general. Though this is not possible with this post-post-modern architecture where we are instilling history, psychology, and biology in order to conceive new ideas.
So many thanks to this nice video clip which includes the essence of the story-telling art of architectures!
This video had definitely demonstrated 3 confusion about architectures of mine.
1 is: How structure designs associated to so many aspects of informations, such as biology, ministration and collaboration?
2 is: How to identify the group of people and their inhabitants by viewing the outlook of their office buildings?
3 is: What is the Modern Art of buildings nowadays?
And I have found the explanation of all of them in this video.🥰
Most of negative comment derive by the fear of people with new things and new ideas to live the Earth. Thank the artchitectes, because they do this work for us. Sorry my english, I was still learning
...perhaps that's because he's pushing postmodern architecture, which wars against the fact that truth is absolute and never changes, which postmodernism counters.
¡Scheeren es un crack! Soy profesor de estructuras en una universidad en Guatemala (URL) y se decirles que la narrativa de la historia del edificio debe estar en completa armonía con la estructura. Scheeren es audaz y logra el cometido.
15:09 this is a great idea .. especially throughout school buildings . student can interact and collaborate with no partitions at all sure this would ensure a new world of studying
I salute this guy. He taught me something. And it felt so short. Thanx for uploading.
The people who laughed at the pic (6:26) bet they never taught 4 years later wearing masks and being in the wedding is totally normal thanks to COVID19 :)
Just what I thought, and wrote in a different way.
Well actually no one in the world 4 years ago would think of that either
Love you TED! We're actually doing a 30-challenge of TED videos. For the month of Feb (2016) we are well on our way to watching a ted video every single day! 😊
Hi greetings from 2020, we are in the midst of a pandemic, it kinda concerns me that the goal in most of these buildings were to get people together and be in a community. I hope we can go back to this ideal life.
Lol
the guy just did a commercial for himself
"hire me, hire me, I am such a cool guy"
There was no story in his speech or his buildings, he just showcased how great design they do.
119 dislike are his draftman.
IA SPACE 😂
u made my day XD
He has even more hater draftmen now.
well hes hiring more draftsmen xD
and the civil engineers
This is exciting , why do so many architects complain so much when there are so many opportunities out there ? It almost makes no sense to say it's a dying field when you see this kind of innovation taking place. Offices and schools will become playgrounds for people to interact more closely. This is amazing
Form follows function. Or, in the case of the Singapore apts, the form defines new functionality.
Arch. Scheeren exemplifies a designing and theorizing architect. Kudos!
Wow! Until now, I was only interested in historic Archetecture, but shown and explained this way, modern archetecture is truly intriguing in it's own right.
I like the way it makes buildings more active and compact, just like the trends of urbanism, but I really miss this going to the population in these projects. These buildings are still in kinda isolated spaces and are built for really restricted targets. The London project is a little better in this aspect though, even being located in a more or less sparse place.
Being Aesthetically pleasing IS a function.
Providing connection and continuity to the past IS a function.
Harmony with a particular place and its existing aesthetics IS a function.
Being identifiable to a particular people as “ours” IS a function.
Making architecture functional in all of these ways enhances its value.
The modern, international, style and adjacent are crimes against humanity. Acts of aesthetic aggression, cultural destruction and theft of value.
i don't understand this. people getting mad for all the money spent on form architecture and saying its a waste of money. you can see it in this way: its money spent on breaking the boundaries of architecture and engineering, exploration just like billions been spent on science for eg nasa. i means billions spent to discover more galaxies that wont probably affect life right now....but it would probably matter in the future right? the same goes for this guy and many other architects. theyre testing the waters, making progress in the architecture industry. many people cant just see that right now and assuming they understand what is important without being experts in the subjects first. you want to save money? cut down the money on ammunition, cut down food wastage, cut down money spent on useless entertainment like the kardashians or smth
Lots of jealous comments here....such arrigance!! This guy is obviously a very intelligent and passionate architect with something to offer...
He should keep designing buildings, but shut his stupid mouth.
His buildings are awesome.
But what his mouth is spewing is a wave of meaningless buzzwords and boundless arrogance.
Yep he is really arrogant and for real, some of those buildings just looks awefull. He contribute to destroy the citys and still is proud of this.
architecture can be functional and tell story at the same time, whats the problem ?
When I was starting my career I've always thought of myself as an artist. As I start to delve deeper, a lesson hit me "Lookin pretty is not top priority" and boy that was tough to swallow. Aesthetically pleasing work wows people but it opens a ton of questions. What's this? what's that? what is that for? this doesn't look right?
FUNCTION first. FORM follows. And you can always maximize BOTH. It's also more feasible and offers a bigger challenge in terms of creativity.
I'm an artist but I'm a designer first (web tech).
Surprised to see a Singaporean building as the thumbnail
+TotallyGlar
It was the best one, you don't want to advertise yourself with your worst piece of work...
What is that building called? It does look neat
*****
It is called "The Interlace", in Singapore.
+TheAnnoyingGunner thank you
haha i know right. i clicked this video because of thumbnail,and the first thing i did was to look up for this comment.
That singapore apt complex is very cool. If I wanted to live in a box it could be one of those. But imo architecture is at its best designing family homes, not ant farms.
Zepherian architecture is solving a human situation. Asia is a high density society. Single family homes does not solve those challenges. In the states single home designs are ok because the density and space permit that approach.
Architecture is solving situations for humanity that enrich one’s life as well as that of the community it is serving.
Yes, these are ant farms.
This is the stuff that gets my heart pumping differently!!!
I'd appreciate highrise architecture that is a bit more intertwined. Not two buildings but a whole bunch of towers and smaller buildings that are close to each other and are connected by bridges on various heights. Streets on the ground are pretty much designed for vehicles instead of pedestrians in this modern world. Those bridges enable the whole city to grow vertically and can be used for small shops, cafe's and so on. It'd be pretty cool.
All his renders look like this building would stand somewhere in heaven
Does interpretation influences the design quality itself? Everyone call that CCTV building "big underpants" in China, what a nice story for us to share.
日本語字幕ありがとうございます。感謝します。
Architecture that tells a story? The first one that comes to my mind is Favela, the slum surrounding Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. It's organic, vivid, and most importantly, it's built by the people who live it and not by architects. Structures are constantly taken down and re-piled up. It may not be pretty, but it's alive. All architects face a dilemma -- they need to come up with a grand plan before capital can be committed. So they "imagine" who's going to use it and how, just to create a narrative for the plan. But once it's built, there's little validation of their theory, as the chance of taking down and rebuilding a brand new skyscraper is zero.
You don't get the idea of narrative, he is talking about how people live their lives interacting with architecture, and the possibility of understanding that with this histories and propose new and better possibilities. It's not poetry or a sales point (though it might be used like one) its a tool, a way to think and better understand the program and open the game. I do think that your last point about validation is fair but of course that is true for every building, and considering that lifestyles really change in the last years (and we really have problems to conect people phisically) we really need architects to adapt and propose projects for the new era and spaces that promote human interactions, skyscrapers won't do it. By the way i'm not english speaker, so ignore my grammar it's probably a mess.
I'm not sure if you are really brazilian,so I'll stick with the english language.
Favelas kinda resemble Kasbahs in the islamic world.But they weren't build to be organic or vivid,they follow the "form follows function" of ugly buildings of the 20th century that like the slums,get destroyed and rebuilt to follow another owner's functions.If you want to find an architecture that teels a history,go back when beauty did matter.
Look at the Traboules in Lyon,France.They were built to facilitate the silk transport from the river to the markets,and they remember me of the beautiful galleries of Curitiba and the alleys in Rio's favelas.Those alleys tell the history of the city,and they weren't destroyed and rebuilt again to follow another function,even those their original function as an easy transportation of silk products no longer exist.
Now look at the Whitewashed,Wattle-and-daub style of houses of Medieval Germany.They tell a history of adaptation,like Rio's brick favelas.Just like Northeast Brazil,Wattle-and-daub is easy to craft,it's the poor man's plaster.Combine that with overhangs to raise the amount of floor space in the upper floors,because streets back then were narrow and they need more space in the cramped buildings,and beautiful cities were born like that,then Germans came to Brazil and built lovely towns like Pomerode in Santa Catarina,even though they could build with any other style.
A building can only tell a story by it's walls and it's shape,they have no voices of their own.And a story should be beautiful,or else,just like slum houses o soviet(or Brasília)-style brutalist apartment buildings,they will get destroyed when it's function dissapear.
Tenha um bom dia.
Phenomenal talk! I am eternally fascinated by architecture!
There are many different ideas and method that architects would be able to design, but so much cases are not built, since it is too hard to convince or even impossible to meet clients who are able to grasp and agree to execute.
There landmark proejcts are truly amazing for the city, even if CCTV is required to built up the structure space as much as usuable space, Singapore apartment lost household privacy extensively, and Collaborative Cloud overall mass conflicts with great opening space. Making decision to those ideas and bringing them into realization are an amazing talent as an architect.
It is truly great talk and amazing presentation.
16 mins shortened to one line " I make buildings with gaps in the middle"
90 IQ alert
This is where the story begins = Form follows Fiction
haha, he has totally found his niche design point!
Whatever buzzword, jargon-filled justification he gives, at least it is a novel approach to design and produces some interesting architecture.
The building in Beijing is name big short pants in China. A wonderful story to tell.
The Interlace building is not selling well from what i heard, the design is out of the box from a design perspective. but honestly i heard a lot of feedbacks and this building is not well-received by the locals. Great design architecture may not be the most functional architecture.
In the end it is just another soulless concrete box with a sheet of mirror-glass, just with a slightly different shape and a lot of architectural Blabla to make it sound more than it really is.
You built a Borg Cube in Germany? Nice.
I like most of his work that he designed except for the floating cinema in Thailand. I strongly disagree that he should have built a cinema on an island because it is disruptive to nature and unnecessary. I believe that the island is beautiful as it is and it should be preserved for its natural beauty. Even though he used recycled plastic to build the cinema, I still believe that a movie theater should have its own building that is not around an island.
The "greatness" of a thing is implicit within it's usefulness. Simply having form has it's place, in a fucking gallery and for the exclusively rich.
Vaya, estoy sorprendido éste hombre es un genio.
Ole Scheeren es un genio.
My architecture professor at the architectural school always told us, the best architects can tell you a great story with their buildings
Great video. Father in law is an architect so I can notice the difference in modern structures. The future is surely amazin!
Great architecture is functional architecture.
+letsgoiowa Exactly. I'm all for open spaces integrated in buildings, aspecially huge ones, but the ones shown in the presentation are confusing for the user and the open spaces were forced in, not serving any purpose, simply making the maintenance way more difficult.
+letsgoiowa
While I found his first example to be a pretty much pointless architecture, the second one with the stacked buildings seems to be pretty much functional and probably the apex of his (?) work. The third one (the "cloud") was somewhat of a downgrade from that as there are still way too much rooms in it's core away from the sunlight and the last one is a nightmare for every visitor as it is clearly hard to navigate. Is the second one a one hit wonder?
TheAnnoyingGunner Sure, have fun navigating through a hexagonal, three-dismentional maze EVERY TIME coming back home. Imagine if you were drunk or needed to use a different entrance than usual (I would assume that there are more than a handful of them).
Mezurashii5
In the beginning it will be a bit confusing, but as you live there, you will become accustomed to the architecture pretty fast. If you use an architecture that is equally unintuitive for a public service building, then it is simply bad design...
TheAnnoyingGunner I'd say it's not a difference of good and bad, it's not too great and awful, but yeah.
That “loop” building could look cool in 2004 but now it looks already tired and dated.
Architecture of 1800s or earlier still looks fantastic.
We can’t build things that last.
Alexey Samokhin sadly there is no more identity...
i don't understand why this comment section is so angry, someone explain?
+oldcowbb I think it is the overuse of meaningless buzzwords and the fact the some of the Buildings didn't look so great. I thought they looked okay, I liked the floating cinema but not a fan of the London olympics building.
+oldcowbb those are really excellent designs. why they are angry ?
maybe it's new in their ears or some are so self-absorbed with their designs, they forget to consider the stories of people and their experiences they are designing for. The speaker is great he is bringing up the User Experience Design principles in his architectures.
Because the talking is wordy but obvious and the architectures are ugly
two side of a coin; the idealist and the not..
Congratulations on architects day!
What a creative genius!
To have the best understanding of the Absurd, just combining this guy's idealism speech about CMG Headquarters and the banner shows in 5:37 - "欢迎各位领导莅临指导" （“it's our honor that each leader could come to visit and guide us”）
same could be said to our couches and chairs. it doesn't matter if it's beautiful if your back hurts when you sit in it
11:40 looks amazing.
yeah it is !!
그냥 랜드마크고, 유명해져서 그렇다는 소리를
저렇게 장황하게 부풀려서 설명하는 사기에 가까운 발언에 박수를 보낸다.
역시 건축은 포장이 최우선인듯.
In your opinion, should i take architecture or engineering course when i finish school? also, how should we base on what course is the best for us?
That was great, in my city of Swansea where having student apartments built just like this
15:56 Big British Brother is watching you. Always.
So the structure that serves fishermen to earn their sustenance, now it's been con(per)verted into a floating entertainment follie...
Good job.
I'm still not sold on narrative as the basis for good design. I understand programmatic relationship is important but the idea that it should be based off of a fictional narrative as Bernard Schumi suggests seems arbitrary. Regardless, I do love OMA's thorough approach to architecture.
My idea of architecture is never just vertical ( Vertical City ) nor jus horizontal ( like this one); but horizontal-vertical. Because the land is never dead flat, land is ups and downs. But they don't manufacture land any more, therefore we are forced to go vertically. Therefore, I have been working on a container housing project for over 18 years by now, called Great Wall Village. Facebook / George Wu, 2019-7-1, George Wu, ARCHITECT, A.I.A., NCARB.
Amazing Work! Incredible vision.
I actually like the hexagonally stacked housing blocks. The other buildings I didn't really care for, but damn, if Berlin-Marzahn was build that way instead of all the Plattenbauten...
So build regularly shaped modules and stack them according to functions ?
fascinating! That makes me wanna drop my current subject and study architecture.
Nice
My elder bro is doing last year in Architect
Great Architecture is Fundamental this is perfect.
I'm no expert but I doubt adding up those 'green' numbers are as easy as he made it seem.
I am impressed. Amazing projects.
Cooperation > Competition.
2021: When you see wedding photo with all members wearing masks... and you don't understand the laughs.
Wow, I'm amazed and at the same time im becoming more appasionate in architecture andunderstanding it more. :D
Wow he is really inspiring. He has the same architectural style and values as me. The concept of hybrid architecture
You have done great designs and it is pleasing the eye and the mind best wishes to do more creative work
Archt. Nimali Bandara
I wonder what would change in his presentation after he lives a year in one of the middle-range apartments in that beehive.
I think we shoud to look for a new way to live and the architecture of the nowdays is helping us to do that. Of couse, everything sounds good when he's talking or when we see the pics but I wished know the opinions of the people that live right there! Everything really works? When he said that in "the interlace" all departaments have a natural light or ventilation I trhoug... "all?" Btw, Its very beatiful see new buildings like that around the city. JUST GIVE ME A JOB PLEASEEEE, OLE!
It should be mandatory that architects marry interior designers and have landscapers as best friends - maybe then some of the dismal buildings would not be so awful.
saltnlightful having some householding person with them could help as people living apart from workspaces is inconvenient, especially as location looses meaning in many industries
ooo, the comment section is totally something else, other than that I thought this video was beautiful, and well spoken
Awesome design :D Great Ted Talk.
Yes, this is great, architecture should tell a story and experience of people, I think he is applying the principles of User Experience Design in his architecture, haters should search what is UXD. the "5 characters of people" he introduce is called "personas" in UXD, every step in design should be backedup by information most are from people's stories, experiences and their ways of life. should consider psychology in your architectures.
I guess I will still prefer the beauty of simplicity. Form doesn't follow function, it is the function. This is why most modern firearms are almost disturbingly appealing to the eye.
Boy that was a mouth full. Hope non architects understood something.
amazing work, great ideas for a better future of architecture
21st Century architecture seems to comprise of mostly stacking and modules. Hope those stacks never go "Jenga!".
Form follows function, that's why you should never flavor your food. You should only be as happy as provides maximum productivity. -Modern Architects.
Great achievement there! Kudos
I once lived in a block of flats. It had 9 stories.
Great minds... thank you Ole.
Thank you very much for your video
To glue the word fiction onto function is really just to understand better the meaning of function. Boxy form failed to grasp function.
Very nice talk, really interesting ✨
Very interresting as a concept and in theory...But what about the result in real life?...i hope to know how much the reality confirms the concept.
You do a Great work 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
You have no idea how much I dislike skyscrapers and entirely glass-clad buildings. They seem to lack a meaningful narrative. As an architect, I find the story behind the building and the philosophy of creating its elements and spaces to be of utmost importance in every design I undertake. Unfortunately, I haven't had the opportunity to work with larger and more renowned companies. The company I currently work for has a focus on cost-efficient commercial building projects, which often means sacrificing some of the creative aspects. Nevertheless, I continue to put in effort to satisfy my fundamental goal of creating something that tells a meaningful story.
He is a great architect!
Who flocks to vacation in cities full of uninspired, depressing concrete and steel totalitarian blobs and blocks? Hands?
Nobody is impressed by anything made after WWII. Anyone who pretends to be is either an architect who paid through the nose for such “insight,” or they’re just lying. It’s fucking cruel to tear down beauty and force us to live among all this ugliness. *Fucking cruel.*
Take your eccentricity to your own home. God knows the family who lived in a Peter Eismann home quickly realized how fucking stupid they were for moving into it. They wrote an entire book on the horrid experience.
It’s time to bring the talented craftsmen back and take out the modern/postmodern/blob/brutalist garbage once and for all. God knows we’ve put up with it for long enough.
Im honestly impressed. And I'm not impressed verry often.
What a great video.
I LOVE THIS FORM OF THINK THANKS
His buildings are doing far more than just "tell a story"!
Seems to me we are being dictated to . And if that's the case architects should stay verbally quiet and let the buildings of their minds do the talking.
In the long run these designs and concepts won't matter because the amount of resources required are devastating to our planet.
Projects like these and the building industry at latge are resposible for 40% of global warming.
Net zero by 2050 is a lofty goal.
People need to live closer to the earth.
In the end citizens should have a say about the public space architecture in their communities and if built and not liked said citizens should have the right to have it demolished .
There are too many of us monkeys on this mudball.
I love architecture ❤