METROPOLIS

I never thought that silence film would be interesting, until I saw this imaginative ‘Metropolis’ film. The overacted expression in the film, even thou it made me laugh, but yet it does help me understand each character in the film more clearly without dialogue. The music in the film also helps me to understand more, as the beat of the music is different depending on the situation of each scene. The main character ‘Freder, Jon Fredersen’s son’ is like an innocent man, who thinks his world is fun and playful. He never know that the world have separate the above and the below world, until he went looking for the girl he is interested. The film portray well on showing the differentiate between people, when Freder entered the factory under the ‘radiant city’ and found the explosion. He never knew before that how hard and dangerous workers have to deal in their everyday job.

Overall, I really find this film interesting and meaningful, as it can portray our world today; separating people by their wealth and the use of machine in today’s life. As machines are now taking a big role in our life, and if one day all of these technologies rise against us, as Freder said in the film, “What if one day, the depths rise again you”, then what will we do…

FROM BAUHAUS TO OUR HOUSE

Tom Wolfe, certainly knows about architects and their work and he absolutely knows how to portray his knowledge to capture the readers’ interests. However, his book cannot be considered source of architectural theory because the author does not explain the buildings in detail, but when he explains building the purpose is of ironical reference.

There are always jokes and humor in the text that is relevant to the point he is saying and that makes it more straightforward for me to understand about history, which I usually find quite dull. I particularly have interest on how the The World War II acted as a catalyst in transforming Modern Architecture and American Architecture and acquired a scholastic world vision of Architecture. This, I think, relates to us, the students of architectural study. It portrays how we are today.