Stanley Saitowitz :: essays papers

THE meaty MEDIUM OF ARCHITECTURE IS SPACE. A VOID TO BE FILLED WITH LIFE. (SAITOWITZ) THIS IS WHAT STANLEY SAITOWITZ HAS serve TO BELIEVE AFTER HIS 20 PLUS YEARS AS AN ARCHITECT. at that place IS NOT MUCH HISTORY RECORDED ABOUT THIS PECULIAR ARCHITECT. WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THAT HE IS A SOUTH AFRICAN JEWISH ARCHITECT. HE STARTED HIS CAREER OFF BUILDING SMALL HOMES IN SOUTH AFRICA. HIS intimately FAMOUS EARLY PROJECT IS THE TRANSVAAL HOUSE, FOR WHICH HE LATER WROTE A discussion ON. ( A HOUSE IN TRANSVAAL, SAITOWITZ 1979) IN THE EARLY EIGHTYS HE move TO THE LUSH HILLS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WHERE umteen OF HIS MASTERPIECES RESIDE AS WELL. HIS plant life ALTHOUGH SCATTER THE HILLSIDES IN NORHTERN CALIFORNIA, ARE ALSO SCATTERED ACROSS THE bucolic AS WELL AS INTERNATIONALLY. HIS PROJECTS SPAN IN CERTAIN PLACES much(prenominal) AS BOSTON, COLUMBUS INDIANA, NEW YORK, SAN FRANSISCO AND THE BAY AREA, AND BERLIN. FROM WHAT WE KNOW SAITOWITZ ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRA ND IN JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA.SAITOWITZS ROLE MODELS INCLUDE VICTOR HUGO, SOL WEXNER, SIGMUND FREUD AND LE COURBUSIER. SAITOWITZ STATES THAT HE IS ALWAYS DREAMING ABOUT WHAT LE CORBUSIER WOULD BE DOING TODAY. CORBUSIERS INFLUENCE CAN BE SEEN IN MANY OF SAITOWITZS get going INCLUDING EXPOSED CONCRETE SURFACES AND SEPERATED STAIR WELLS, AS WELL AS MANY SPACE USAGES AND CURTAIN WALL CONSTRUCTION.ONE OF MY FAVORITE PROJECTS OF SAITOWITZS IS THE HOLLOCAUST story. THIS MEMORIAL CONSISTS OF SIX GLASS TOWERS EACH ETCHED WITH ONE MILLION NUMBERS, symbolize THE 6 MILLION INNOCENT JEWS THAT PERISHED UNDER THE EVIL custody OF THE NAZIS. THIS IS turn up ALONG FREEDOM WAY IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. FOR THIS HE EARNED THE atomic number 1 BACON MEDAL, AN HONOR ONLY GIVEN TO 8 PREVIOUS ARCHITECTS SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1966 AFTER THE ARCHITECT OF THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL. EACH OF THE BOHEMOTH GLASS TOWERS SITS ASIDE A PIT LIT WITH FIBER-OPTIC LIGHT AND A STEAM GENERATOR. SAITOWITZ STATES THAT well-nigh PEOPLE THINK THE PITS OF FIRE SYMBOLIZE THE SIX NAZI terminal CAMPS, OTHERS FEEL THAT THE WARM AIR RISING UP FROM THE GROUND IS worry THAT OF HUMAN BREATH AS IT PASSES THROUGH THE GLASS CHIMNEYS TO HEAVEN. THIS IS VERY substantive TO ME BECAUSE MANY OF MY FAMILY MEMBERS PERISHED LONG BEFORE I WAS BORN IN THE HANDS OF THE NAZIS. MY GRANDPARENTS STILL BEAR THE LIFELONG SCARS, THE TATTOO ENGRAVED ON THEIR mail ARE LIFE-LONG REMINDERS OF THE MASS DESTRUCTION OF LIFE THAT OCCURRED IN THE SECOND adult male WAR.