Week 3 Post 1: Field Trip to Stanford University

In this field trip I had a lot of fun because the first time that I had gone to see the university I thought that it was very interesting because of all the designs that it had but I never put too much deep attention to all the descriptions added to each building. For example, I didn’t think about “Why did the architect do it this way and not this way?” or “Why did he or she use this type of material or colors?” These kinds of questions I would ask myself and so I really liked it because to me it meant that I was really digging this architect mind and it was making me very happy that I could see what the architect was seeing when he or she were designing the building. One of the buildings that made me think like that was the church because of all the colors it had and of how the entrances where shaped all like arcs and also how the inside was so peaceful and so beautiful.

One of the things in the field trip that I really enjoyed about the field trip were the sculptures’ because of the reasoning behind their creature. I really liked how most of them were actual people that lived. One particular sculpture that I was fond of was the The Burghers of Calais sculpture because the story behind this sculpture was that 6 men from the French city of Calais gave up their lives so that their whole kingdom could be free. I found this very emotional and really admired the work of the architect because of the positions of the sculptures and their face expressions fit perfectly with what was going on.

Another sculpture that I also found very were The Gates to Hell. The name is attractive, catches one’s attention but I also thought that the sculpture itself was beautiful even though it wasn’t finished. The way that the architect made the humans face and body feel like if they were being tortured which is the total combination to “hell”, and it makes one want to see beyond the sculpture and actually see those expressions alive; Such a very interesting sculpture.