Australian Baroque Reading Reflection

Australian Baroque (2001) Reflection – Architecture Australia March/April 2001

With this reading it was hard to connect with what the article as what was being described in the text was hard to visualise and understand this wasn’t helped by the hard to make out photos and diagrams provided. The ideas put across of the knots and the five sided string were able to be slightly grasped but still did not make a lot of sense much like the rest of the ideas, while they could be understood they were hard to visualise. After a brief investigation into clearer photographs it a lot of it still was not clear how these ideas came together, possibly due to the deconstructivist nature of the building making it hard to see what was present and its chaotic nature, which was related to the fact that Australia was still finding its culture or style as there are a mixture of design elements that relate to the rest of the world and also some that are distinctly Australian.

The brail on the external walls is what stood out the most as it is a form of ornamentation that has the aesthetic appeal and also a meaning embedded in it which makes the invisible culture of Australia visible (to those that can read brail). It makes visible something invisible, apparently much like the rest of the building as told in the reading.

The brail is an interesting way to embed a message or messages into a building and open up new paths to possibly explore and investigate in further studies and research.