Essay: From Purpose to Poetry

摘要

There's an expression for something that just doesn't make sense - it has "no rhyme or reason" What about the opposite? Something with "reason" follows some logic, it has a purpose and it suggests that it is there by design. Clearly, architecture has this sort of reason. But what about rhyme"? The word usually applies to poetry. A poem is a composition that can resonate deep in our mind, generate emotion, conjure up magic, and evoke memory, either personal or collective. These are elusive things. They don't come from instructions in a design manual, but intuition senses and finds them. If we can add rhyme to reason in architecture, it becomes poetic, and it is great architecture. That is what we find with the work of Mecanoo.