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architect
Minoru‐ Takeyama
Takefumi‐Aida house
Kitazawa Residence
church
Tadao‐Ando
city‐hall
Chapel on Mt Rokko
Phoenix Arata‐Isozaki Government Centre "City in the Sky": Arata‐Isozaki Arata Isozaki
Koten and/or Klassik
Dollhouse
house house house
Sugie house Miwa Funato house Ibuka Terrayama Arai Sugaya Takefumi‐Aida house
Dollhouse
Toyokazu‐ Watanabe
Tadao‐Ando
Dollhouse
Dollhouse
Arata‐Isozaki
house
house house house house house house house
typology
The Ledoux Connection
A Redefinition of Tadao‐Ando Space, Time and Existence
title
timber frame
concrete stone glass
concrete
unfinished concrete
unfinished concrete blocks walls reinforced concrete shell concrete box
material
purify space by reducing architectural material to naked … Making the perspective of nature all the more apparent … quiet space, composed of materials with a definite substiality, will come to life through light and have an impact on people concept of pleasure is one that remains fundamental to his architecture game of construction and distraction, with an obvious architectural parallel it takes its cue from the more delicate structures of nature
create an architectural environement particular to Phoenix
possible to realize Koten even with Klassik styles and forms. Japanese Classicism is extremely hybrid. Koten always remains with the textbook of the history of Kapanese architecture, while Klassik is that of Western architecture. Koten and/or Klassik has proved to be the effective solution; small exterior, large interior, or "poor outside, rich inside," a manner of Koten space composition together with some Classic flavor around.
between Modernism, Classicism, and Buddhism … mysterious, not to say, hallucinatory combination of a dome (dropped from the sky) and a suburban house. … the rhetorical trope of extreme simplicity makes the familiar become unfamiliar and therefore artistic ... harsh and noble, brutal and elevated is its aloof posture. .. the mysterious procession up a dark stairway to the culmination in an abstract sky. Tomb, pagoda, chapel to abstraction ‐ the painter's house is a shrine to a metaphysical speculation.
double cube spatial world of Romanesque ministry
Overlapping spaces over Baroque and Modernism alike. This typical Post‐Modern hybrid has been given an extreme hierarchical ordering. Spatial oval dome
… more in common with traditional Japanese architecture Modernism movement which has lost its spirit of excitement and revolution
Buddhist concept of Samsara, metempsychosis (the transmigration of souls)
religion, economy, sociology finds affinity with Zen philosophies
The archetypical form is common to Buddhism Western Classicism. Row house by Adolf Loos
Romanesque monastery east of Avignon, in southern France
using the tripartite composition of Western Classicism
Klassik … distinguish the Western Koten ... a process of creation which an eminent Classical from the Japanese. Klassik is predecessor has maintained to achieve a great goal. "To look after what the master looked for" is a simply a synonym for Western discipline which has been customarily preserved in Classicism. traditional Japanese creativity in any genre.
traditional Japanese structural frame made possible spatial interpenetrations between inside and outside. The roof over the Japanese style room is supported by columns in the four corners of the room which symbolize the traditional frame and which makes even greater interpenetration possible. Tokonoma (alcove) is the symbol of the Japanese style room. The tokonoma developed, as the result of a long history, into a spiritual hierarchy of a room.
the general trend of Japanese modern architects This free style may be called Classicism or Neo‐Classicism. who at that time were attempting to discover Modernism in spatial composition of the traditional … several independent houses, each being based upon Platonic solids. architecture of Japan.
I combined the form of the cube, sphere, cylinder, etc., to make each house. Combining cubes of varying scale
... looking isolated from the outside ‐ this isolation will act paradoxically with nature ... … house begins to communicate directly with nature over the city through making another shell‐like shelter inside the shell, which is called "City" as opposed to the natural world. ... daily transition of time and these situations may give a rhythm to human life. touch with nature
all the elements of his architecture, which speak a "traditional" architectural language, turn out to be the visual appearance of a metaphysical order by means of light and shadow. With this arrangement, Ando revives the spatial composition of the traditional row house.
With this arrangement, Ando revives the spatial composition of the traditional row house. Semi‐cylinder concrete box semi‐transparent skin
Subtle and esoteric, sometimes mind‐boggling philosophies or personal concepts have inspired the concepts of the works and are often embodied in them brutal language full of strength and self‐confidence giving new meaning through restored existential spaces and centers ... structures are a challenge to him only as far as they provide the meaning of spatial expression and ordering. dual nature of existence disconnected time‐space Ando searches for new relationships between man and substance, man and space, as well as man and man. hermetic microcosms catabolism of landscapes
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history tradition
space, form, composition
qualities of space, special characteristics
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