Saturday, 5 May 2012

EXP 2: Architects & Concepts


Kisho Kurokawa:
  • “He was driven on by the recognition that architecture must stand on a broader cultural and intellectual basis beyond the formal, the functional, and the objective” - 
  • “Flexible, reversible, interchangeable, extendable - nothing is more lasting than change” - Dynamic
  • “For Kurokawa, the preference of traditional Japanese architecture for asymmetry and spatial uncertainty represents the spirit of freedom as a significant principle of life. The freedom of arrangement, the indefinite juxtaposition, opens up a possibility of a new order: an unordered order, a hidden order, and order directed inwards” - Ambiguity
  • Outside and in, old and new, technology and natural, cultural exchanges - Symbiosis
  • Cones, spheres, pyramids as symbols for many cultures - Abstract symbolism
Steven Holl:

  • The experience of the architecture - spaces changing and revealing itself - Phenomenolgy through the use of Paralax
  • Not impacting environment - Preserve site and memory
  • Of Building envelope, people movement, light - Porosity
  • Hinged Spaces/Interactivity
  • Flexibility of space – similar to metabolist idea of dynamic architecture

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