Before
watching the Frank Gehry video in class, I had never thought of architecture as
an art form. In my mind, I assumed there was something to do with math or
physics and maybe some design based on the environment, but never had the word “art”
ever been correlated to building buildings in my mind.
Something that really struck me was
when Frank Gehry said that he wanted his architecture to make people feel a
certain emotion when they walked into his buildings. This is when I fully accepted
that there really was a huge art aspect to architecture.
Thinking about it, I connected it
to other forms of creating art. For me, I first thought of fashion design. It
really gave me a new way to think about it. For every dress I draw, I could
think about where the modern day woman is wearing it, the story behind the
outfit, and the way she feels when she’s wearing it. These are all things that
can alter the final product of what you design. And the fact that I figured
that out thanks to an architect? Pretty cool.
