Winter Park Architecture (Post Class 2-7-10)

First, I would like to thank Dr. Casey for his presentation on Thursday; his slides helped me visualize the definitions in Jencks' work. After going back and looking at my notes, I wondered if any of these definitions apply to the architecture around Winter Park. Today, I drove out with some others in my fraternity to clean up Princeton St. in downtown Orlando and, on my way, I decided to analyze some of the architecture Winter Park had to offer as I rode down Orange Avenue. Our baseball stadium and the Jewitt Orthopedic Clinic were the only two structures I noticed outside our campus which still used that old Spanish architecture (and considering these two buildings are quite far away from each other and the Rollins campus, they stuck out like sore thumbs). For the most part, the buildings along Orange Ave. (headed towards Orlando) had a modernist architectural structure to them - quite simplistic in their structure and grounded in logical functionality. For example, I do not remember the name of the business, but it was a drive-thru dry cleaners; the only creativity the building had to offer was a vibrant, red paint coating the outside of the building and some pretty obnoxious signs.

The only building I could find that loosely represented postmodern architecture is the Orlando Science Center (OSC). OSC is an overwhelming building and to get a better look at it, I have attached somewhat of an aerial view of the building: ( http://observa-dome.com/images/osc11.jpg ) From this picture, I kinda see OSC as some molecular structure one might learn about in chemistry class; in that sense, OSC would an example of anamnesis. Maybe that's a stretch and I understand that Winter Park isn't the Postmodern Architectural center of the world. These are quite simply my observations around our community