reflections summary

kacie

leslie 

abigail

kacie shows her knowledge about the unit through talking about revolutions, eastern influence on the west, and relates the unit to her own work. she states that "A revolution has four main steps that are involved", and lists them as "revival (something returns into activity), reform (a change for the better occurs), rotation (uniform variation in a sequence), and cycle (a recurring series of events)". she goes on to talk about eastern influence on the west and how all scales, including artifact, buildings, spaces, and places were affected. she says the reason for the eastern influence is for the west to "escape from what they were used to". she relates the unit to her own design work in the way that every new semester begins a new revolution through her progression as a designer. she experiences "revival, rotation, and cycle" every semester.

leslie begins by talking about the baroque time period and asking questions about the holistic environment. talking about revolutions, she says "rules are no longer holding their value" meaning rules are getting broken. she thought about the way baroque explored outside the box through fluidity. she also talks about how glass and iron are being introduced and are used as the main building material for new structures. the american revolution was brought up and she pointed out the connection with england. she ends the summary stating "color, texture, art, decoration, and ornamentation" are ways the east influenced the west. 

abigail's essay is broken down quite nicely beginning with what she see's the unit to be all about, moving through revolutions, and ends with what she has learned. she starts off by saying the unit is "about revolutions, revivals, cycles and reforms" and moves on to talk about how rules are being broken. eastern influence is brought up in the sense that not only architecture is influenced, but fashion, music, art, and culture as well. these things are what were first influenced, before the architecture itself. after breaking down different revolutions and movements including the baroque, moving through to the japanisme movement, she connects all back to grecian and roman architecture. 

all three essays talk and point out different things in some sort of way. some things that are constant that can be found in all, however, can be noted as revolutions, cycles, revivals, and influences. although worded differently, and focusing on different things, all three can be linked together through