National Treasure Artist

Chapter 203 Three Ideas (for Subscription)

In the Chinese Designers Forum, someone chatted.

"I heard that Lao Bai is giving a lecture in Chicago now."

"Huh, is it?"

"That's interesting!"

"Lao Bai's lectures are really unique, one lecture will blow the other, and the lecture will blow the other."

"Do you think it will explode this time?"

"Hey hey hey!"

Inside the Chicago Auditorium, designers stared at Bai Gongtong.

Many of these young designers were already excited when they saw Bai Gongtong.

"My speech tonight will be combined with the design of the American Pavilion in Barcelona. The content mainly includes three concepts and principles."

Bai Gongtong's eyes were bright, and she opened her mouth to speak.

Standard American English, the loud and thick voice immediately rang in everyone's ears.

In another world, the contribution of master Mies van der Rohe lies in the development of a style with classical balance and extreme simplicity through the exploration of the application of steel frame structure and glass in architecture.

He established a contemporary popular architectural standard, and his architectural concept runs through the entire modernist architectural system. He is the father of steel and glass architectural structures.

What Bai Gongtong will wave tonight is the flag belonging to Master Mies!

The masters and designers in front of the stage, as well as Chairman Mason and the rich man listened and thought.

The theme of the Barcelona Expo is world art. On such an occasion, the requirements of the national pavilion are absolutely different from the usual design requirements.

The purpose of the exposition is to promote the genre, and it is required to express your ideas, your brilliance, and your aesthetics most intuitively, and you need instructive and educational works.

After adding these few requirements to the design, the difficulty of the design will undoubtedly be raised a lot.

Because it requires a mastery of modernist concepts and a very high perspective.

Even a few well-established masters of the modern school dare not say that they can complete such a representative building.

Bai Gongtong's voice fell, and pictures appeared on the screens on both sides of the auditorium at the same time.

It is a diorama animation, and a modernist building appears.

Everyone held their breath and looked around for the first time.

The building that appeared on the screen was extremely simple, with only a few rectangular blocks interspersed.

A main hall, two auxiliary rooms, two pools, a statue of a girl, and several walls seem to be all the elements of the American Pavilion in Barcelona!
Most of the designers in the venue were already surprised when they saw this.

The animation camera began to zoom in and out, and began to shuttle along the building, outside and inside
"The pavilion is about 50 meters long and 25 meters wide. It consists of three exhibition spaces and two water areas."

A very old designer can whisper at the same time just by looking at it.

"The plane of the main hall is rectangular. There are glass and marble partitions in the hall, which are criss-crossed and continuous. The space between room, interior and exterior interpenetrates each other.”

"The shape of the building is simple, without decoration, and the original color and texture of steel, glass and marble are mainly used."

And humane.

The man paused for a moment, and then answered again: "There is a simple and elegant atmosphere."

"I chose to use 8 nickel-plated steel columns with a cross-section to support a reinforced concrete flat roof, and the walls can be freely arranged piece by piece because they are not load-bearing."

"The walls meet the ceiling, and the glass wall also runs from the ground to the ceiling, without the need for a transition or connection as in the traditional approach."

Jamie Derek, a master of entry into the house, showed his thoughts and continued to analyze: "This approach brings a concise and clear impression to people."

"Limestone, onyx stone, glass, carpet, etc. are used in different colors and textures, but they also show a luxurious style."

Adrian Smith in front of the stage looked cautious: "Master Seamus."

"I wonder if you have noticed the proportion of the exhibition hall's plan?"

"I seem to see some shapes with integer proportions appearing."

西莫.切瓦斯听着微微点头：“有1:1的方形，1:2，1:3的矩形，还有接近2:3的黄金分割。”

“主要玻璃墙面是1:3，灰华岩、大理石墙面为1:2，玛瑙石墙面则接近1:3。”

"This plane seems simple, but every detail is worth deliberating!"

"Emphasis on the use of horizontal and vertical lines."

The picture continued to deepen and repeat, Bai Gongtong just stood on the stage and looked at the audience calmly.

There are constant analyzes and comments coming from the mouths of masters, designers and critics.

Among them, a large number of designers are most excited when they look at the American Pavilion in Barcelona. They seem to see their own ideas in it.

They watched obsessively, and they found that their ideas were contained in it and being displayed in a masterful way.

"Amazing, amazing."

Master Jamie Derek said in a deep voice: "The design techniques in the American Pavilion in Barcelona can be called superb."

"It has the greatest demonstration effect!"

"I'm sure we've only analyzed one percent of what it contains!"

"I seem to see a path from it, but it's a pity that my style is not the same."

Masayuki Kurokawa, looking away from the video, took a deep look at Bai Gongtong: "The extremely short simplicity is the most profound proof."

At the end of the video, the picture stays at the best overlooking angle.

The more than [-] modernist designers in the audience immediately stared at Bai Gongtong.

Some people even became short of breath, their faces flushed, and the hands on their legs unconsciously grasped
Inspirations constantly collided and bloomed in everyone's minds.

The journalists gathered in every corner of the auditorium felt that the work was excellent but could not detect more, but they could feel the change of atmosphere from the faces of the designers who were full.

So one photo after another was quickly recorded.

"The first and foremost philosophy of the American Pavilion in Barcelona."

Bai Gongtong stood with her hands tied, her gaze swept across the crowd, and she said slowly, "Less-is-more."

"Follow the 'less is more' principle."

"'Less' is not blank, it is streamlined. 'More' is not crowded but perfect."

"Art depends on structure but is not limited by it, it emerges from structure and in turn requires the elaboration of structure."

Bai Gongtong's words echoed in the auditorium through the microphone.

Every modernist designer listened to every word of Bai Gongtong, and they took a deep breath, not daring to make the slightest movement, listening, memorizing, and pondering with serious faces.

"The second principle, circulation space."

Bai Gongtong didn't care how excited the designers in the audience were, and said calmly.

"This is a fluid, connected, and inseparable space."

"This circulation space is rational, orderly, interior space, it is static, and its purpose is practicality."

As these words sounded, the eyes of most of the designers in the audience stared again.

For architects who have come out of the academy, and for these architects who are more or less defined and restricted by various ancient western architectural schools, this space is completely different from the previous closed or open spaces. Invented another concept!
"The third principle, comprehensive space."

"A large space is divided into several interconnected small spaces. When we remove the partition walls, what remains will be a large space as a whole. In this space, we can arrange it at will and transform it into any desired form."

Bai Gongtong paused for a moment, and then said: "This is different from our modernist view of 'form follows function'."

"I think people's needs will change. Today he wants this, and tomorrow he will want another, but the architectural form can remain unchanged."

Three principles were thrown and quickly occupied the minds of the modernist designers in the auditorium.

Another world The three concepts that are integrated into every inch and every strand of space of modernist architecture were put forward for the first time in this world, which formed a strong sense of shock to modernist designers.

(End of this chapter)