A response to "Collage City"

The one main concept I gathered from the reading was the idea of architecture having an exterior and interior that represents and complements each other.  Architecture should also represent the function of the room or build in some sense.  One great quote from the reading, “Collage City” by Colin Rowe and Fred Koeter, is “A building is a like a soap bubble.  This bubble is perfect and harmonious if the breath has been evenly distributed from the inside.  The exterior if the result of an interior.”  The experience of making the bubbles and then watching them float away into the sky are my two favorite parts of blowing bubbles.

            In order to make a really well constructed bubble, the maker must ensure that the wand or tool that he or she is using if fully covered in the liquid bubble soap.  Then the bubble maker has to blow through the hole of the bubble wand to create the bubble, but he or she wants to make sure the that they blow at a slow even pace, if the bubble maker wants to make the best biggest bubble ever.  Eventually the bubble will detach itself from the bubble wand and begin its journey into the sky or atmosphere as it spins and turns, showing off its beautiful colors.

            I think that bubble making is similar to architecture in the sense that the bubble maker is the architect and the bubble is the piece of architecture.  It takes a very patient architect/ person to create a building, landscape or city plan with care.  If the architect takes his or her time to carefully think about the end goal or product than the piece of architecture will fit right in with the surrounding area.  The architect must think of not only the exterior, but the interior as well, because if the interior is organized and designed with the function in mind than the exterior or façade will flow nicely from the outside to the inside.  One example I like to use is if you take an old airplane hanger, build a façade on one end and leave the other three sides just as they where, then the function of the building or interior doesn’t correspond with the exterior façade.