New thoughts from looking at different styles of Buildings

Late in this afternoon I left my office. When I was walking on a small road toward home. I took a look at a historical building on the opposite side. Its external decorations are quite impressive - Many different styles are used for the roof, wall, balcony and doors. They look beautiful even though, Ville de Nice did not spend budget to repainting the surface. It is surprising, this building like other buildings seems is new to me every time I take a serious look at it after almost two years I have lived here. I continued to walk on a big avenue till some building caught my attention. “Art Deco “I told myself. It was obvious; the building was much simpler and used decorations which consist of basic shapes lines, triangle, etc. I soon remembered an article that I read before. It talked about the origin forming of Art Deco was after Industry revolution. People were celebrating new lifestyle with enjoying new technologies, and artist started to take inspirations from new materials and new inventions. They created works with basic shape which were similar to some parts on the machines or train. That was how the whole new movement started. Following, I asked myself, why machines and trains were made of very simple shape, not like Baroque style or other complicated decorations. Because it had to be practical- the train is huge, and carries big volume of people. It is quite difficult to maintain classic or traditional decoration designs. Oh, that’s it! Anything related to big quantity and quick speed, it links to simplicity. Let's think about cooking, if you use big quantity and simple materials to cook for a lot of people, the food will be efficient to everyone but not tasty. While if you cook for only few people with rich materials, the food could be amazingly good. This example can reflect things in our modern lives. We have seen how things can be totally changed with efficiency and simplicity. It seems a fashion trend to call things to go with simplicity! Have you thought that too much simple is boring, the lifestyle becomes standard and limited? There is going to be something in between to combine classic and modern, complicity and simplicity, and add changes, these are the keys of making tasteful and joyful creations in our society. That is the duty of designers, I realized.