Roman Toilet

Roman Toilet

In the modern day’s toilets, they were designed to be a certain private area for people to feel comfortable to do their utility. When it comes to a comparison, people in the ancient period such as Roman, toilets were designed to be a relaxing place and socializing area. A great example is a toilet in Ephesus; the toilet was built dated back 2000 years ago. The toilet had no wall and it was an open space which the toilet seats were built from a long flatted stone and pinching many holes for people to take a bladder in. Also, since people in the roman period wore long robes as their outfits, therefore their outfits will covered every part of their body and make them not to be embarrass to use the toilets. Moreover, the toilet in the past did not separated for genders; men and women as same as today’s. That might because of nowadays people care more about respecting to each other’s privacy. The ruins of the toilet in Ephesus also show that the toilet in the past were designed to be an entertainment space because there are some traces of stream rooms, musical podiums and a fountains surrounding the toilet. This can be assumed that people in the past used the toilet as a public gathering place as well.

Comparison Between Le Cabusier and Kurt Schewitters

In the early 18^th century, Charles-Eduard Jeanneret Gris or commonly known as Le Corbusier and Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters, were the two people who are inspiring many artists and architects in the following generation. They both were born in the 1987 and became famous during WWI and WWII. Although Kurt Schwitters and Le Corbusier have a similarity; they both worked on sculptures and paintings but Le Corbusier works are more likely to focus into architecture more. One of Le Corbusier’s great invention is the “Domino house” which is a model of an open floor plan consisted of concrete slabs and supported by minimal numbers of thin reinforced concrete columns around the edges. Along with a staircase that provides access to each level on one side of the floor plan. This piece of work is the basic foundation for most of his architectural works for the next ten year. In the completely opposite way, one of Kurt Schwitters’s work is the “Merz Building” which he used wastes to decollated his studio in a handover as a concept of Merz; that he made the provocative statement that "one can use waste materials to shout out loud". In my opinion, Merz building is not really a piece of architectural work, but more likely a reinvention of an original architectural space. Therefore I came into the conclusion that  Kurt Schwitters and Le Corbusier have things in common about here career but they focus on the different applied art techniques but Schwitters’s works focus more into sculture forms while Le Corbusier’s works focus more on architectural form.

Dom-ino House- Le Cabusier

Le Cabusier

Merz Building- Kurt Schewitters

Kurt Schewitters

The Purpose of the building between Greek and Modern

The Purpose of the building between Greek and Modern

The Purpose of the building between Greek and Modern

The architecture during Greek time was considering many factor, but every factor were link to one thing, which is to raise the spirit of Greek people since they believe in god and spirit. One good example building is the Temple of Pathenon where the podium were craved the picture of man, women and there’s a statue of Athena the god of the spirit. Everything was mainly to gain people’s belief, however comparing to the building in the modern day the purpose are different. Such as “Grand Lisbao” hotel in Macau, China, which was built the shaped of the building to make it look like a lotus so that people will recognize the symbol of the hotel when they arriving at the airport. The building contains casino, restaurant and hotel which draw many tourists to stop by and spend some cash to have their entertainment in the Grand Lisbao. This proves that the building in the modern day concern about economic only. This is because during Greek time there are wars among the belief, the purposed is to make everybody believe in their culture and that is surviving on that time. However, in the modern day people completing with each other in economic, there are division between rich and poor, who’s ever got the money is surviving. In conclusion, even though the purpose of the building between Greek time and modern time, still the main purpose of the building is to get people to surviving.