Project 2: First Attempt

Many of Hopper’s works give the impression that the artist is recalling fragments of life as though captured on a frame of film.The artist never tells us the whole story. So much is left to the viewer’s imagination that an entire film could, in turn, be created from looking at a Hopper painting.

This painting is called "Room in New York", which was painted by Hopper in 1932. It is about a couple sitting in their living room through the open window of a city apartment. The couple are seperated by space both physical and psychological, each preoccupied. Especially the woman, whose body is twisted, seems to be hesitated and uneasy. Hopper conveys a palpable disquiet by the angle of the wowan's starkly lit shoulder as she turns away from her husband to plunk a solitary note on a piano.

Project 2: Edward Hopper 's Introduction

Edward Hopper, born in Nyack, New York, to a middle class family, Hopper studied at the New York School of Art for seven years beginning in 1900. He eventually gained a great deal from the classes he took with Robert Henri, one of the major figures of American Realism (the so-called “Ashcan School”) and, politically, an anarchist. Hopper made several extended trips abroad toward the end of that decade and came under the influence of French and European literature and culture, but claimed to be unaware of and unaffected by Modernist art work (Picasso and others).Before he gained recognition as an artist who had something significant to say, Hopper’s paintings were largely ignored. He worked as a commercial illustrator, also selling prints and watercolors, unable to make his first sale of a painting to a public institution until 1923. Not until he was more than 40 did Hopper enjoy success. He sold every painting from his second solo show, in 1924, around the time he first married.

Reference: J. Cooper, American painter Edward Hopper in Chicago, http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/mar2008/hopp-m22.shtml

ARCH 1201 Project 1 Villa Can Feliz Model Details

ARCH 1201 Project 1 Villa Can Feliz

In Utzon's design, the roof is one of the characteristics of the villa, especially the curved ceiling, classic and delicate. The solid walls show a very strong and stable feeling of the villa, and columns or posts attract your eyes look throught the interiority of the villa.

Utzon's design is from nature because the villa is located on the cliff, so his use of natural materials such as sandstone is to form a unified relation to the surroundings. Also, his interests on the openness and firmness are completely performed on the villa, which give a very bright vison of the entire space of this villa.

As you can see from the images, we did the complicated curved ceiling underneath the roof by using balsa wood, which took us ages to deal with it, but finally it is beautiful and decorative when we finished the ceiling. I also really appreciate the three big french windows in the front of the building, which allow the sun light coming into the house. We did grass, trees and stone because we think the whole house is a product of nature, from nature and located on nature.

Our group made great efforts to model of the villa, because we want to show our deep understanding of villa can feliz. In the model progress, we got a struggle on the site because the villa was built along the site, and all of dimensions have to be so accurate that we can figure the model out.

ARCH1201 Project 1 Model In Progress