The Orders of Homewood

An order in architecture is a certain assemblage of parts subject to uniform established proportions, regulated by the office that each part has to perform.

Whereas the orders were essentially structural in Ancient Greek architecture, which made little use of the arch until its late period, in Roman architecture where the arch was often dominant, the orders became increasingly decorative elements.

There are three distinct orders in Ancient Greek architecture: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. These three were adopted by the Romans, who modified their capitals. The Roman adoption of the Greek orders took place in the 1st century BC.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_order

The 10th week of the residency with Mallis Workshop brought ‘Rough Framing.’

Within rough framing there is perhaps no better moment that dances between the ‘orders’ of utilitarian performance than bracing. Proper ‘Bracing’ makes me think of Miles Davis recording ‘Kind of Blue’. The baseball metaphor might consider a pick-up sandlot game of ‘Over the Line’ with the likes of Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani, Juan Soto, and Mookie Betts. This moment of ‘Bracing’ is so expressive, performative, and intuitive, that not even the master framer can predetermine the representational forms that get collaged from the loose 2x4s, 2x10s, ladders, string, and scraps left scattered amongst the site. These ‘Scraps’, not left for gone, but instead intentionally placed for this space of unintentional discovery. An extraordinary moment that presents us with the central order of pure utility mixed with playful self-expression.