The Geometry Of Feeling By Juhani Pallasmaa Analysis

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After reading Juhani Pallasmaa's essay, "The Geometry of Feeling," and having watched "The Art of Making Ruins," I have grasped a better understanding of how architecture shapes someone's life physically, mentally and even spiritually. Florian Borchmeyer and company strategically obtains a couple of Cuban citizens' outlook on their environment and how it impacted them for the rest of their lives. Fidel Castro, during Cuba's revolution decided to detour from the maintenance of these structures due to the fear of the invasion of the United States. Unfortunately, that prediction was miscalculated and has caused Cuba to be viewed as a ruin and has begun to collapse, erode and frighten the occupants or residents around the structure. For example, an elderly woman was injured and three other people in the collapse of an interior section of a building in Havana. A portion of the structure above a room gave way in the mass populated neighborhood. Two families lived in the building. A girl was among the injured, all of which were hospitalized and listed in stable condition. Living shortages and the poor establishment of buildings are along the main social and economic problems in Cuba. Havana is a city of two million, but it needs about twentyeight thousand housing units to withhold those searching for housing and people living in buildings that are in poor conditions. This is one incident of the factors of disturbing conditions that are still being inhabited and at many times appreciated.
Can buildings have memories? Buildings inhabit occupants and from that perspective, you could make the speculation that we as human beings have moments that we hold onto, memories. Nevertheless, if we have those moments inside of a building, t...

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...ide that sense of shelter so without Totico keeping that building functional; the occupants would be homeless and on the streets. His spouse even mentions the building is nothing without Totico and when he is gone, she doubts anybody will replace him. Consequently, this will cause the demolition of the building. Nicanor de Campo's little bit of land left he occupies with his wife has changed his life and his outlook on his country's government. He once was an optimistic of the Castro regime until he first handedly witnessed the chaos that what caused by Castro's reign, for example, the "ruins" of Cuba. As mentioned earlier, Nicanor's land was seized and government agents occupied most of it. The agents even went as far as claiming the fruit in the tree as theirs. What has occurred on that land has changed Nicanor and his family's life for the rest of their lives.

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