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6 Michael Graves – Humana Building,
Louisville, Kentucky, 1982-86. (Jonathan Hale)
7 Michael Graves – Humana Building,
Louisville, Kentucky, 1982-86. (Jonathan Hale)
on associational readings, where both
figurative and anthropomorphic references are of major significance.
Graves
blamed the lack of this kind of reference for the alienation of modernist
space, as he claimed that buildings no longer acted as mediators between human
beings and their environment:
All
architecture before the modern movement sought to elaborate the themes of man
and landscape. Understanding the building involves both association with
natural phenomena( for example, the ground is like the floor), and
anthropomorphic allusions ( for example, a column is like a man). These two
attitudes within the symbolic nature of building were probably originally in
part ways of justifying the elements of architecture in a pre-scientific
society. However, even today, the same metaphors are required for access to our
own myths and rituals within the building narrative.18
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