Wednesday, October 3, 2007

artistic statement

Arts, forms, spaces, colors, shapes, lights and shadows are always appealing to me.
When I was young, my father always inspired me to become an architect.
He took me to his projects, introduce his world. He also took me to various places to see how the spaces in different cultures and location are put together in various ways.
Traveling enabled me to see various building and their shapes. I become interested in temples, traditional market, traditional houses and buildings. The more places and building and places I see, the more I get curious to know about the stories how the people who using the building, the architects who were designing the buildings, and how these architects decision were affecting the people who lives where these buildings stands.
As I grow older, I decided to travel by myself to Europe, in my quest for architecture. I went to Munich and Berlin, in Germany and lives there for a year. This experience giving me the chance to see how the people in the other side of the world, treat their spaces and natures. I became more interested in architecture and felt that I would like to spend the rest of my life as an architect.
Coming home to Indonesia, I found Univesitas Pelita Harapan. In Unversitas Pelita Harapan schools of architecture I met many people who were sharing the same passion as me. I met Andi Wirawan my 3rd year studio professor; he introduces me to the eastern concepts of Zen. How the emptiness of the space could shaping a form and how natural lights could affecting the quality of the space of the buildings.
After graduating from Universitas Pelita Harapan, I went to United States; I arrived in Chicago where the first modern architecture in the United States began. The city is a Mecca for architects, almost every building that I studied in my previous school was there, and those buildings come really vivid in front of my eyes. Frank Lyod Wright, Louis Sullivan, Mies van der Rohe and Dankmar Adler modern architecture was seem really close to me. The landscapes of Midwest was felt really exotic to me, where I realized that I am in the middle of the great plain of America, thousands of miles from the ocean. Lake Michigan was the only thing that made me felt close to the water. Living in Chicago giving me another experience to perceive architecture, whereas the architecture are really big and occupying bigger space, in contrary to the buildings that I saw in Europe. This experience in Chicago are adding my vocabulary and giving me a new definition of how people in some part of the world adapting their lives by playing with art, forms, spaces, colors shapes, lights and shadow. After living in Chicago I went to Boston to attend a graduate architecture school, in this school I learned about the basic principles in architecture. It helps me refresh my memory about some classes that I already took in Indonesia. Now I am living my dream studying architecture at Pratt Institute in New York City, a city best known for the living architecture laboratory of contemporary architecture. At this school I learned new knowledge of approaching architecture by using computer aided design programs such as MAYA, RHINO and other computer aid software.
My next step after I am finishing my study at Pratt, I would like to contribute to the society by sharing them my knowledge and experience as an architect. I believe that architecture is a science that has to be shared and experienced by the society. Architecture should become a media for people who live in it and around it, to put artificial space harmoniously with its natural environment, making a better space to live, works, and experiencing life. I would like to become an architect that is acknowledging the people who are affecting by my architecture.

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