The Hard Core of Beauty
Two weeks ago l happened to hear a radio program on the American poet William Carlos Williams.The program was entitled The Hard Core of Beauty.This phrase caught my attention. l like the idea that beauty has a hard Core, and when l think of architecture this association of beauty and a hard Core has a certain familiarity."The machine is a thing that has no superfluous parts,”Williams is supposed to have said.And l immediately think l know what he meant. |t’s a thought that Peter Handke alludes to,I feel, when he says that beauty lies in natural, grown things that do not carry any signs or messages, and when he adds that he is upset when he cannot discover the meaning of things for himself.
And then | learned from the radio program that the poetry of William Carlos Williams is based on the conviction that there are no ideas except in the things themselves, and that the purpose of his art was to direct his sensory perception to the world of things in order to make them his own.
In Williams’s work, said the speaker, this takes place seemingly unemotionally and laconically, and it is precisely for this reason that his texts have such a strong emotional impact.What l heard appeals to me: not to wish to stir up emotions with buildings, l think to myself, but to allow emotions to emerge, to be.And to remain close to the thing itself, close to the essence of the thing
l have to shape, confident that if the building is conceived accurately enough for its place and its function, it will develop its own strength,
The Hard Core of BeautyTwo weeks ago l happened to hear a radio program on the American poet William Carlos Williams.The program was entitled The Hard Core of Beauty.This phrase caught my attention. l like the idea that beauty has a hard Core, and when l think of architecture this association of beauty and a hard Core has a certain familiarity."The machine is a thing that has no superfluous parts,”Williams is supposed to have said.And l immediately think l know what he meant. |t’s a thought that Peter Handke alludes to,I feel, when he says that beauty lies in natural, grown things that do not carry any signs or messages, and when he adds that he is upset when he cannot discover the meaning of things for himself.And then | learned from the radio program that the poetry of William Carlos Williams is based on the conviction that there are no ideas except in the things themselves, and that the purpose of his art was to direct his sensory perception to the world of things in order to make them his own.In Williams’s work, said the speaker, this takes place seemingly unemotionally and laconically, and it is precisely for this reason that his texts have such a strong emotional impact.What l heard appeals to me: not to wish to stir up emotions with buildings, l think to myself, but to allow emotions to emerge, to be.And to remain close to the thing itself, close to the essence of the thingl มีรูปร่าง มั่นใจว่า ถ้าอาคารจะรู้สึกถูกต้องเพียงพอสำหรับสถานที่และหน้าที่ มันจะพัฒนาความแข็งแรงของตัวเอง
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