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9 Michael Graves – San Juan Capistrano
Library, California, 1982. (Neil Jackson)
The fact that building elements are
nameable objects, such as arch, column and floor meant that they were also
memorable to the building user as a way of establishing a sense of place.
Graves felt this quality had been lost in the abstractions of modernist geometries,
where points, lines and planes no longer allowed this kind of reading. The
shortcomings in Graves’ buildings, however, result from a different kind of
abstraction, where the abrupt shifts of scale disrupt conventional
expectations. The curious combination of historical quotations, whose
volumetric quality is denied by the thinness of their construction, results in
a feeling of superficial unreality that belies the gravity of Graves’s theoretical
position.
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