Modern
Bin Wang

Response to Louis Kahn
I agree that “the same order created the dwarf and Adonis”, but I am not sure that “the same order created the elephant and created man”. In my understanding, elephant and man are designed by different order (maybe use the same materials), just like “modern” and “postmodern” or “deconstruction”. They are different languages. Turn to cities, I don’t think an ancient asian city has the same order with the contemporary San Francisco.
I do believe “from order he will derive creative force and power of self-criticism to give form to this unfamiliar”, just like Aldo Rossi’s building in an Italian city, it’s unfamiliar, but has a clue to the other buildings in the city.

Response to Postmodernism
Because of my limited English, I don’t totally understand this article.
As my understanding from the article, the high modernism destruct the fabric of the traditional city and its regional culture. On the opposite, the postmodernism is kind of attempt to mix the different culture. Thus to me, the modernism reflect the technologic revolution while postmodernism is more like a cultural revolution no matter it was successful or not. What obvious is that with the development of globalism, the loss of regional culture is unavoidable, at least it seems to me.

Response to “post modern culture”
I think we shouldn’t define “modernism” as a period of time. To me , the spirit of modernism is to catch the development of the world. It is always “modern”. Modernism is not in the past, it is what happening right now.

Response to “5 points and villa Savoie”
I just want to mention one point that I don’t agree the author that “there is no back or front” of Villa Savoie. The shape of the ground floor clearly define the front and back. And all the drawings of the plan show the entrance at the below, although the entrance is facing west.

Response to “the city and its region”
I enjoy reading this article . It talks from people to economic, political , topographic, mechanic. Everything is right but I don’t know how to response. Is mechanic wrong? Is globalism wrong? It is really a contradictory question. Maybe as Wittgenstein said, “whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”.