The Opera House met those aspects by com
modity, meaning that it met it's function. The Opera house is used for the obvious, Opera, and it meats it's use well.It also meats the aspect of having firmness, which simply means that the building can stand with out falling. An as we have seen the Opera House is still standing today. Therefore it met firmness very well.
But it also meats delight. Delight meaning it appeals to the viewers eyes. This it does best. This is one of the reason the Opera House is one of the most appealing architectural monuments standing today.
Response 2
Although to me this particular textile is a piece of artwork. But to others and the person that may have made it, it could have spiritual meaning to it. This happens many times in the West. What particularly am I talking about. Influences. The Eastern world influences Western art everyday. Western society takes and changes what people have as a symbol of something sacred, and change it into something that has less meaning. This doesn't happen knowing, but it's unaware,or in ignorance. These patterns that
have been taken from the Eastern world affect the Western worlds style and design. This effect isn't negative but a positive one.Response 3
Our Design History Class in 101, is very unsatisfying, not only to me but also to the concept of a well designed building or space that meats commodity, firmness and delight. The room meats commodity, because it serves it's function, and it also meats firmness, because it sands without falling down, but one thing the room doesn't meat is delight. The room is oddly shaped and the seats are to close together, they also are to small for an average adult to sit in. When designing this room I don't think the designer took into consideration that the room was for adults and not children.
Response 4
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
To me this explains the passage of Botton. But instead of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I would like to re-quote it, beauty is in the appearance of the building, which makes it happy.
The Hall of Mirror exudes happiness because it is beautiful and it serves it's purpose in the Palace of Versailles. It looks good to the human eye therefore the building is happy, because it also exhorts the other components to making it happy. It is suggested that also the building can change a person's moral being. It can influence people to be better people. Botton said there was a moral concept between beauty and goodness. Because the hall of mirrors have pictures and can make one feel move with a certain emotion or feeling.
