National Treasure Artist

Chapter 209 The Four Lectures of Bai Gongtong (Subscribe)

Half an hour before six o'clock, the Rockefeller Auditorium at the University of Chicago was already packed with people.

In addition to the students of our school, you can also see many famous people in Chicago or in the United States in this auditorium.

There are well-known masters who have just entered the hall and entered the hall, there are famous scholars and professors, and there are also the top richest people in Chicago
In one corner, some young students looked excitedly and opened their eyes carefully at the faces in the auditorium, exclaiming in a low voice from time to time:
"Hey, look at the door!"

"The famous master Dieter Rams, who is located in the midwestern city of the United States, is here, as well as Master Luigi Colani!"

"As expected of Bai Gongtong's designer, I have never seen so many masters gathered together in my life."

Another group of people, also a group of students.

Some students glanced at the first few rows of seats. Every seat there has been arranged earlier, and they cannot sit casually.

"The ostentation is really big. Look at the front row. The people sitting in those seats are not established masters, but well-known scholars, critics, rich people, and even the president of the American Institute of Architects."

"and many more!"

"Who are those sitting next to the masters, so young!"

His eyes flicked across the faces of the masters, and then he stopped suddenly.

"I saw Mr. Adrian Smith, and there are several Asians who should be members of the Baitongtong designer team."

"Strange. Why do those people look familiar?"

"hiss"

"Damn!"

"That's Emily, and Pete and Anthony!"

"God, how could they sit there!"

The atmosphere in the Rockefeller Auditorium was hot.

Compared with the lecture in the Chicago Auditorium not long ago, the audience of tonight's lecture is more comprehensive and has higher gold content.

Not only designers, there are elites in design-related fields.

Time passed by little by little, and soon it was six o'clock.

The lights in the audience suddenly went dark, and the front lights of the podium turned on, making the entire podium stand out in the auditorium.

The dark crowd remained silent, with their eyes fixed on the front.

Almost at the same time, Bai Gongtong's figure appeared beside the podium, enveloped by the spotlight.

He is tall and slim, wearing a suit and a white shirt. He walks calmly and calmly, with his own sense of rhythm when walking.

Even if someone deliberately measures it, they will be shocked to find that every step Bai Gongtong takes is extremely accurate, and the error is negligible.

Standing in front of the podium, Bai Gongtong glanced roughly across the auditorium.

In the end, he made a slight gesture to the scholars and masters in the front row, and finally nodded with a smile to Ban Xia, Qian He, and Su Mu.

"Good evening everyone, I'm Bai Gongtong."

Bai Gongtong's eyes were piercing, and he only heard him say in a deep voice.

In tonight's lecture, the banner that Bai Gongtong will wave is also Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the four masters from another world.

Compared with Master Mies van der Rohe, this master has a wider influence in the United States.

He was originally born in the United States, and the direction he opened up was also focused on American culture, which was produced by the United States.

The American Institute of Architects in that world conducted a survey and came up with an unsuspecting answer:

Master Frank Lloyd Wright is the greatest architect who ever lived in America.

In the design colleges in the United States, the same results were obtained:

Master Frank Lloyd Wright is the most respected and loved architect by students.

"The content of my speech tonight mainly includes seven design concepts and six principles."

Bai Gongtong paused slightly, then said in a deep voice.

After the words fell, the masters, scholars, critics, and students who were listening in the audience first thumped in their hearts, and then showed surprise almost at the same time.

"Isn't it a continuation of the three design principles from last time?"

"An idea again? A principle again?"

"how is this possible?"

"Will it be another major road of modernism?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible, do you think this is Chinese cabbage?"

"So many masters of our modern school are deducing it, but we haven't found a way to unify it so far. How can it be so easy!"

There was a murmur of discussion in the auditorium.

Master Jamie, Master Seamus, and Ramsay and Klaney who came later also had expressions on their faces. The heads of the four top masters were slightly close to each other, and they did not know what they were talking about.

In response to the discussion, Bai Gongtong's eyes were calm, and after a while, he stretched out his hand and made a slight downward gesture.

At this moment, Bai Gongtong seemed to have unparalleled prestige. After the gesture was made, the auditorium fell silent at the same time.

"Same as the previous round, the core of the topic is still space."

Bai Gongtong said in a deep voice: "But the content of this round is not mainly in commercial or public buildings such as large office buildings."

"The focus will be on residential buildings."

“We want to explore and establish the meaning of space and its expression, and its context starts from the transformation of entity to space, from static space to flow and continuous space, and then develops to the dynamic space of four-dimensional sequential expansion, and finally reaches the dramatic space."

In the auditorium, cameras recorded every expression and every word of Bai Gongtong, and reporters took pictures from various angles.

I only heard Bai Gongtong continue to say:
"The first point of concept is to establish an architectural view that advocates nature"

"If our architecture is to be alive, it should reflect the more vivid human condition here today."

"It is the higher expression of human nature, the greatest record in human literature, and the most faithful record of time, place, and person."

The first idea was constantly being said in depth, and the audience in the audience frowned and fell into deep thought.

"The second idea is to establish a local architectural culture."

"For example, in the United States, based on absorbing valuable things from folk traditions, America's own culture is created"

"The third idea is that technology should serve art."

"Residences should also have the streamlined shape of ships, airplanes, and cars, so the structure should show continuity and plasticity, seeking the sense of space in the new era."

"The fourth point is to express the nature of the material."

The seven concepts and six principles popped up one by one.

Gradually, the master in the audience and all the rest of the audience no longer had unnecessary reactions, and only quickly wrote down every point Bai Gongtong said in the notes they carried with them.

They didn't even have time to be shocked at this moment, they just felt their scalp tingling and their heart pounding, but following you, you have to concentrate on the lecture, for fear of missing even a single word.

This is another road, and the direction is not the road on high-rise buildings, steel and glass.

This path focuses more attention on the residence and on the essential materials of the building.

President Ma Sen swallowed dryly, looking at Bai Gongtong in a daze.

For modernist architecture, residential architecture was undoubtedly one of the real pillars that drove the genre forward.

In fact, in another world, modernist architecture began to be promoted from mass-built residential buildings

Master Ximo Chevas's eyes were filled with the figure of Davidia involucrata, and the ideas and principles in his ears made his blood boil.

This is the direction he is looking for!
Scholars of American architectural culture have gone into a frenzy.
The audience reacted differently, but most of them knew that the sky was about to change again, and another system of chaotic modernism was brought out!

(End of this chapter)