ARCHITECTURE = FROZEN POETRY
Tower bell, Mendrisio, CH Its been said on countless times that architecture is frozen poetry . Perhaps it is. GAM Projects by Zaha Hadid and Herzog & DeMeuron. Basel. CH Projects by Frank Gehry, Buckingham Fuller, Nicholas Grimshaw and Santiago Calatrava. CH Projects by Zaha Hadid, Mario Botta and Herzog & DeMeroun. CH Above: Rotterdam. Below: Antwerp, Zurich, Basel inc. the Vitra Design Museum. Vitra Design Museum and Mario Botta's Tinguely Museum, Basel Jean Nouvel's, KKL Luzern; Cittá dil Vatticani e Mendrisio Lecorbusier's last building. Zurich: Architecture as frozen poetry is a metaphor I particularly like. In my view architecture is just like poetry where building materials substitute a writer's vocabulary, where a particular kind of grammar is applied to create graceful compositions. The result can be literal or it can be abstract using no more, nor less of those precious materials and components, all in precise quantities. It all comes down to a ba...