Exercise 2 - McNally

These are the three images that I chose to represent "architecture parlante". I thought that it would be better to abstract the assignment more and blend the three images as one but now I regret not distinctly separating them like an actual triptych. My idea was that the eye, a famous image by Ledoux, would connect all of the images together - symbolizing that the human eye is literal and how we see architecture should represent the architecture's purpose and function. I thought that the images adjacent to the eye represented architecture parlante in two different ways. The left image is a bridge, when we look at a bridge we know what it is used for because we can see it's actual function - to occupy transportation. The other image describes architecture parlante in a more subtle way. The book states that architecture parlante doesn't necessarily only pertain to buildings that directly resemble their function, but that buildings are built in the places or the way are because of more spiritual ideas or because of their surroundings. The image of the building on the left goes with the sunset background of the entire image - I am assuming the building was intended to have the glazing and monumentality it does because of the glorious views it observes around sunset and sunrise.