Architecture has evolve through history which theories and ideologies moves in a moment of time through technology, history, power, religion and shelter that serves a binding force for different eras of humanity. Some of the best works of Architecture uses metaphors, to convey the feeling and the idea in the art of architecture, which as compelling as the work itself. At times it can be convey relatively and takes a life of its own.
Metaphors like the Bird’s Nest (Bejing National Stadium) by Herzog & de Meuron has a connotative meaning to the Stadium as looking more like bird’s nest. Whether it is negative or positive, it is subjective unless the meaning is lost and disjointed.
One of the most successful in creating metaphors that are representative to the work is taking objects or subject manner found that are elementally recognizable and reinterpreted into a animated object, whether it is art, architecture, sculpture, and film.
Case in point, project that are intrinsically creative and shows the quality of its craft but the words are hard to describe the concept or idea to the viewing public. Frank Gehry designed IAC/InterActiveCorp Headquarters building in New York derives from a image of sails. It is apparent in its translation that it looks like the sails of the sailboat on the surface form of the building, soaring against the New York skyline.
IAC/InterActiveCorp Headquarters by Frank Gehry of Gehry Partners LLP
Song of the Blog: Sea Legs by The Shins on the CD Wincing The Night Away