The Muses Are Not Amused

In the reading The Muses Are Not Amused, Silvetti's various approaches to different architectural forms were interesting. Design strategies and techniques that produce architectural form, and the ideas and ideologies behind them were very helpful to me. Each strategy reminded me how I worked on my projects in studios. We were given the site, programs, and a theme for semester. Especially programism reminded me of doing program analysis to determine where each programs should go or which ones should go together, and move around to find a better way to solve the problem. For my thesis project, I should use various strategies and techniques.

We can find adaptaion in plants, growing in various shapes, sizes and forms. For example, flowers open and close responding to changing conditions in the environment such as the availabilty of sunlight. Like buildings, plants are rooted to place, able to draw resources from the earth, and sky. A plant needs to receive all of its energy from the sun, all of its water from the sky, and all the nutrients from the soil. Some plants support and shelter insects like the buildings do for people.