aesthetics |esˈTHetiks| (n.): a set of principles
concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, esp. in art.
The
term aesthetics refers to feeling beauty towards something. Again, it is feeling so it varies from person to person. What is super beautiful in one’s eyes might
be super awful in others’. However, some
aesthetic qualities were taught to us, suggested to us, or embedded into our
brains, because aesthetics can be like a trend. You may want to like something
because it is what the mainstream like, or you like it because the majority of
people do. Like fashion, you might not
like how you dress, but you dress like that anyway because that’s what other
people like. One of the examples of
aesthetic trends is the TWG Tea Company.
This English brand once used the land conquered over by English
colonization to grow tea leafs. Back
then everyone hated colonization. It
took away the defeated countries rights, freedom, and their territory. Now, in the 21st century, TWG
comes back again, not as a conqueror, but as restaurants. Lots of TWG branches opened in Southeast Asia
recently. This is also the act of
colonization, but now everyone likes it, because it is a trend. The aesthetics of being a high-class, sitting
in a nicely decorated café and drinking an English tea, is now likable.
As
for architecture, I think aesthetics is a very hard quality to play with. Since perfect
architecture does not exist, it
is nearly impossible to please everyone’s eyes with just one design. Of course, there are ‘international style’
that most of the people in the world agreed it looks neat, but not all of us
like the so-called ‘glass box’. From my
point of view, a good architecture raises contradictions. It gives different people questions that have
a lot of answers. As imperfect as it is,
it still success in grabbing attentions and comments.
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