PIONEERS CHANGE THEIR CONCEPTS 1من اصل2

PROF. DR. ALY RAAFAT
Professor and Previous Head of the Department of Architecture – Cairo
University Architecture, Nile Award-winner
Do pioneerarchitects have the night to change theirconcepts . With the
change of paradigms during their lifetime ? Can they change their design
concepts from Rational to Romantic or from universality to diversity ?
First ofall we have to ask ourselves, can they change their direction if they
find it desirable fromdients ? We double their ability to shift from purity to
multiplicity or vice verse if they are so convinced by one approach .
MiesVanDerRohehad this consistency though he moved from Dutch
picturesque De still, highlighted in Barcelona German pavilion to his
permanent classic structural universal approach based on pure rational
adopted all the rest of his practice in U.S.A. He created wide spread
academic popularity with followers that started with it and ended in their
own personal way .
Among theseAeno – Saarinen: Philip Johnson, S.O.M and many others .
Frank Lloyd WrightandMieswere persistent followers of personal concepts .
The first was the pioneer of organic architecture developing his line of
thought towards quality and not novelty. He has his world wide fellowship
and followers who created an international school .
The French architect leader of change and novelty “Le Corbusier” was
influenced by his artistic tendencies that pushed him to humanistic
architecture. He started by international orthogonal smooth forms and
moved to his ” BetonBrut ” approach
thatdeveloped   toBrutulismandplasticismin   LaTouretie ,
CiteConternparaianand many others .
His influential design for Ran champ Chapel is a contrast to his villa Savory
early cubistic masterpiece .
However some signs in the former indicated the new coming extraordinary
change .