What Intimate Relationship Between Transparent Logic, Abstraction, Nature And Place

For a great many years, architecture has been a breaking point for different artisticeras in history. Some of the most famous “works of art” have been chapels, temples, and tombs. Among the most dominant and influential eras of great architecture are the sophisticated, stoic Greeco-Roman periods and the more mystical, elemental Japanese eras. These two very distinct and very different eras have more in common than you may realize.

This essay will focus on how those works are informed by both regional and international course. In this context, Sydney Ancher and his strong Miesian simplicity as well as Peter Muller’s affinity with Frank Lloyd Wright’s organic architecture principle.

Many architectural and urban forms and elements that we witness today are largely influenced by how buildings were design and laid in Rome. Not only in terms of its external design that brought upon important messages but the design of interiors and the significance of spatial arrangement of spaces exist within them has created the sense of physical experience in the buildings as well. Rome’s urban development and the rise of architectural movement began during the time of Augustus

Thesis This paper will employ close visual analysis of two Japanese woodblock print pieces from different periods of the 19th century and how they differ in Western ideals. This paper will compare Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa to Ando Hiroshige’s Plum Estate, Kameido by their differing landscapes, colors, and acceptance of Western methods. I chose these two pieces due to both pieces being so different, although they are both woodblock prints. Further, I found it interesting that one piece, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, is known so widely while Plum Estate, Kameido is not.

Architecture should be nurturing, responsive and alive, dynamically shifting spatial balances, organically expressive forms, subtly luminous colors and biologically healthy. To achieve such life-enhancing architecture, it has to address all the body senses simultaneously and fuse our image of self with experience of the world. By strengthening our sense of self and reality, architecture serves its all-important function of accommodation and

Every designers and architects have their very own style of designs that would become their signature and would be recognized when people see their works. In this essay, I choose to write about the two distinguished Japanese architects, Tadao Ando and Shigeru Ban, and their works of Church of the Light and Cardboard Cathedral respectively.

Architecture is often mistaken as purely an art form, when in actually it is where art and engineering or art and practicality meet. For example, painting is an art, when preformed well it yields a beautiful picture that evokes a deep human reaction and brings pleasure to its viewer, however this painting provides no function, it cannot shield us from the rain or protect us from the wind or snow, it is purely form. An insulated aluminum shed provides shelter and protection from Mother Nature; however, it is a purely functional building, it was drawn by an engineer, not conceived by an artist to have form. The culmination of form and function is Architecture, the Greeks and Romans fathered this idea and Palladio’s study of roman architecture taught him his valuable truth.

Different architects have different styles because they are trying to get at different things. Architecture is not just about making something beautiful anymore, it is about trying to get across a set of ideas about how we inhabit space. Two of the most famous architects of the twentieth century, one from each side, the early part and the later part up until today each designed a museum with money donated by the Guggenheim foundation. One of these is in New York City, it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The other is in bilbao, Spain, and it was designed by Frank Geary. My purpose of this paper is to interrogate each of these buildings, glorious for different reasons, to show how each architect was expressing their own style.

In 1890s, Art and Crafts movement started and its architecture worked in different kind of media cooperate with the artist to bring in a greater unity to the arts. Most of the Arts and Crafts architectures being build along together with the sculptures, tiled decoration and some with highly symbolic imagery. As an example, the Standen located at East Grinstead, England showing the different kind of bricks and tiles for the building’s wall.

In relation to this the book ’Le Corbusier ‘by Kenneth Frampton (British architect, critic and historian, born: 20/11/1930) also holds a link within some of the opinions, movements and beliefs of Le Corbusier. Focusing from the early stages of Corbusier’s life to his last works, we find ourselves indulging in facts and creations of Corbusier himself such as the Dom-ino. As featured in the previous reading ‘towards a new architecture’ Corbusier talks about the engineers aesthetic ‘two things that march together and follow one from the other one at its full height, the other in an unhappy state of retrogression’. After some research in to this I was lead to the dom-ino design (image above). The dom –ino was an early example of the engineers aesthetic and became the theoretical basis of most of Corbusiers houses up to 1935 and extended on a scale much larger than the two story house. The dom-ino led to a number of prototype buildings such as the United De Habitation. The design allows the concept of the free facade, The pieces were to be pre-fabricated allowing the construction time of the design to be reduced and thereby a product of Corbusier’s application of

Maekawa entered Tokyo Imperial University in 1925 to pursue his architecture education and it was there when he was able to be exposed to the European trends (Maekawa, 1984). He learned about the Western and Japanese architectural history and took field trips to shrines and temples (Maekawa, 1984). He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1928 (Maekawa, 1984). He was then eluded by Europe’s modernism where he later pursued his belief of modernism in Paris by working under, the well-known architect, LeCorbusier (Maekawa, 1984).

However, the Imperial Hotel charmed me and I followed my curiosity and it lead me into it. There was a bloomy corridor with an overly low ceiling opening to a big hall. I felt like I was in a cave. According to me, Wright comprehended in the importance of attitude of architecture, the treatment of space, from Japanese architecture. When I went to Falling Water in Pennsylvania, I felt the same affetion of space. However the important thing that affect me from inside was the natural sounds of nature.' For Japanese architecture education, it is necessary to work over ten years in an architecture office to be accepted as an architect without education of university. Ando became an architect thanks to this opportunity given to him. He started to his self-education by studying architectural books which were assigned to architecture students and educated himself in one year period. He could not work with another architect because of his obstinacy and anger issues. (The Gale Group, 2010, para.4) On Ando's architectural style, it can be seen the nature of Minimalisme most important property of which is

Tadao Ando is one of the most renowned contemporary Japanese architects. and influences many people that would like to become architects in future years and his artwork to stay in the minds of

The book consists of twelve chapters that propose this idea that designers should explore the nature of our senses’ response to the spatial built forms that people invest their time in. It tries to cover a specific topic in each chapter that in order to deconstruct the book, it is necessary to cover each chapter individually.

“ Architecture organizes and structures space for us, and its interiors and the objects enclosing and inhabiting its rooms can facilitate or inhibit our activities by the way they use this language”(Lawson pg.6).