Sweet moments with Ms. B

A blend of the past to this future.

I believe in understanding the past to better understand the future. In man's continuing quest of evolution we have surpassed more than a couple of logical and honest perceptions of how history evolves; what went through where. But i would not attempt to recreate history here. As a lady architect, I can only illustrate through images and scripts the different structures built thru time.

The picture is a blend of two halves. The left part is the great Parthenon- the most magnificent monument ever built in ancient times and the second half on the right side is my very own Virgen de la Regla Parish church in Lapu-Lapu City (my city remember), obviously as it is, it depicts the partnership of ideas, of beauty, of stregth and of use and function.

Basing on the famous words of VITRUVIUS, POLLIO- who was a Roman architect and engineer( wrote on architecture and lived in the days of Augustus) were: Utilitas- Venustas- Firmitas.

UTILITAS means: Use. Its function with respect to the building usage. How the structure could be functional for. How may it be of use to anyone. Its usefulness is one major point in the design conceptualization.

Next is VENUSTAS: As commonly used word Venus, which refers to the Roman Goddess of love and beauty, so does the word Venustas implies beauty in itself. The structure's grandeur over its existence. The ultimate point of view with regards to the essence it projects. The sole reason for being.

Then comes FIRMITAS: This refers to the structure's stability. ITs firmness. Its capacity to bear load but still in commune with the beauty and function of the entire design concept. This must and should somehow go hand in hand with the other two significant structural ingredient of design, giving satisfaction on the magnificence of its overall strength relatively incorporated within its core.

Although these may have come by over thousands of years ago, still they are considered the basics of any struture's fundamental design recipe, without which or an absence of one would simply mean null.
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It (the merged picture) might seem done in an unprofessional manner, but it is just a matter of who's viewing how. Am i right, or i am right?