alterations summary

kelly 

kara 

alyssa 

kelly talks about the alternatives unit as breaking the rules and testing boundaries. ultimately alternating the way in which we build and design. through this, failure is necessary in order to progress. kelly states "failure isn't always a bad thing, it is how we learn from our past experiences". she relates this to her own design work, giving an example of how in order for her to succeed, she first had to go through a failed step in her design. she speaks on the baroque period as being fluid and gives the example of michelangelo's laurentian library which gives a notion of water embodied in stone. 

kara had a beautifully written summary for the alternatives unit. she explains the middle ages, renaissance, and the baroque time periods. the way gothic emphasized light and verticality. she spoke about andrea palladio's design with mathematical proportions, and how the villa rotunda is "the most widely copied buildings in the world". renaissance is "inside the box", leaving baroque to be "outside the box". louis XIV dominated architecture in france. she sums the unit up by saying the alternatives unit "explores the design world's struggle between established norms and their alterations"

alyssa mentions how we talked about gothic cathedrals, onward to the baroque time period. she talked about breaking the rules and how they can be broken only if one knows how. she then relates what she learned to present day things, including the design world to a heart monitor. the flatlining of the monitor represents stagnation in design.

these essays differed quite a bit i think in what was focused on. everyone had their own ideas and concepts in the way they expressed what they had learned which i found interesting. this differed from the reflections unit, where everyone focused on the same topics. in the alterations unit, i found a common theme to be gothic architecture, and the emphasis it had on light and verticality.