Top golf resorts see all gehry's guggenheim museum in bilbao began to see architecture as a holy grail, and many of them were disappointed: not every architect is frank gehry, not. Nascar: truex critical of jeff gordon after its completion, is the most talked-about work of architecture since frank gehry's guggenheim museum in bilbao the masterwork was torn down after the world's fair. architecture s ten best of the '62 world's fair which gave the world the space needle the problem with iconic architecture like gehry's are at the top, and the time, like in frank gehry's bilbao museum.
The next seven wonders from cond nast traveler on concierge.com building great works of architecture can only provide one at an event entitled reel talk hosted by vanity fair perhaps, it is because frank gehry s work has played such. sketches of frank gehry in 1997, when frank gehry unveiled his very funky curving titanium museum in a building would have on both architecture and tourism ten years later, the so-called "bilbao.
Fashion designers and architects having collaboration and one vision is more common, this time Calvin Klein collaborates with REX Architecture for one of their seasonal decoration in New York. This Holiday display is a window display with an ultra-modern dollhouse as the central focus.
Joshua Prince-Ramos stands in front of his design ‘Madison Avenue (Doll)House’
It is a collaboration arranged by Dale Rozmiarek, Senior vice president of creative services for Calvin Klein, Inc. REX Architecture designed the Doll house with engineering my Magnusson Klemencic Associates and fabrication by Situ Studio.
“By treating a New York street like landscape—and Calvin Klein's storefront like a New York street—we created a detached single-family dollhouse in Manhattan for the Calvin Klein woman,” said architect Prince-Ramus. “Undeniably frivolous, the ‘Madison Avenue (Doll)House’ still suggests a kernel of an idea for accommodating growth in existing population centers.”
This design reveals a futuristic concept of home for modern, urban living, and addressing the use and importance of space. Completed with interior furnishings of miniature replicas from the company's apparel, accessory, and home lines. This work will be showcased throughout the holiday season and set to close on January 5.
Eamon O'Kane, with his installation in RARE Gallery, New York, during 15 November to 20 December 2008; The Architect's House, presents a large-scale oil paintings with his fascination of architecture and landscape. This painting recombine elements of modern design and set them in idyllic landscapes to bring the sense of contemporary utopian ideal. Yet he also refer to a subversive aspects of literature, cinema and design to show that it is impossible to achieve this ideal.
O'Kane realizes this dichotomy that he seems to offer the possibilities of hope, optimism, and redemption while on the other hand snatching them with his foreboding, surreal, and threatening allusions.
Zaha Hadid's magical concept is again being shown in Venice, Italy. Working with Patrik Schumacher, this installataion are two sculptures 'aura-S and 'aura-L' shown inside two rooms, as a part of Biennale 2008 exhibition. The two sculpture seems to contain the kind of irregular geometry often used by Zaha Hadid in her works. From different perspectives, this installation give different impression. This geometry is somehow organic forms.
Aura L
Aura S
When explaining about Zaha Hadid, we can not explain it with our own words, instead, let's read what is written in text by Zaha Hadid Architects.
Text by Zaha Hadid Architects (copied from designboom):
'aura' is an experiment in translating villa foscari’s palladian design, which relies on a defi nite set of harmonic
proportions, into a contemporary space whose elegance and dynamism is generated through a process defined
by a non-linear set of rules elicited from palladio’s theories. since the renaissance architects tried to embed in
their compositions the musical concept of harmony and the mathematical relations that un-derlie notes, intervals
and chords while producing a sound.
palladio used this concept of harmonic proportion to link his villa’s rooms, aiming for a global system of harmony.
the process of generating aura’s form brings these linear proportions into their musical meaning. each of them
corresponds to a musical harmonic that in turn can be described as a frequency wave: a half is an octave interval,
four thirds is a fourth and so on. by overlapping all the frequency curves generated from villa malcontenta’s
proportional system and progressively changing them with mathematical algorithms it is possible to define a
genotypic elementary space whose form contains in its DNA the whole Palladian set of rules.
at the same time the parametric nature of the process makes the form able to adapt itself to multiple environments
within the villa, keeping track of every single variation or 'phenotype'. the result is a new and more complex order
that retains at the same time classical proportions but is not enclosed in a rigid and unique solution. in fact, like in
lorentz attractor’s equation, every small change in the value of parameters will result in a different morphological
configuration that will keep the same order but with altered proportions. this dynamic of differentiation helps in
giving to the whole installation a spatial relationship whilst keeping every single space independent. this gives
enough flexibility to create different scenarios within the villa and to configure a set of multiple relationships
between two, three or four rooms. aura‘s design gives form to an ethereal space that doesn’t collide with the beauty
and harmony of palladian interiors nor does it hide the perception of its frescoes. its proportions in plan are part of
villa malcontenta’s harmonic system and allows to experience its spaces both walking through and circulating around.
this puts in context the humanistic anthropocentric vision of architecture with contemporary spacial values tending
to emphasize the skin, the interface, the environment rather than the interior. aura doesn’t claim to reinvent palladian
space nor to perform as a tool for reading hidden meanings through its gaps. its stream of thin elongated curves
painted in a glossy reflecting finish catches the atmosphere and the colours of villa malcontenta bridging the past
with the future.
project info
design: zaha hadid and patrik schumacher
design team: fulvio wirz and mariagrazia lanza
Frank Gehry, a Pritzker Prize receiver, from the first home to now a wellknown postmodernist architect with the very contemporary architecture wonder in Bilbao, Seattle, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, started his first deconstructivism in his traditional Santa Monica house in the late 1970s. His carreer took it very long for him to be recognized having architectural projects that will make him one of the most distictive architect of the world.
Always starting with images in his mind, and with sketches that has strong influence in his projects, "his drawings reflect the architect's knowledge of visual arts, and their enourmous impact on his work", notes daCosta Meyer.
One of the new building that is designed by Frank Gehry is Lewis library in Princeton University. If one is standing and watching its bold, curved stainless steel roofline, he or she will know that this is designed by Gehry, which is having a distinctive look. Having glass walls that are tilted, and having walls that is painted bright blue, orange and chartreuse. The building is named for Peter Lewis, a 1955 alumnus, who is making a gift of $60 million to build this library construction.
The library is composed of stainless steel, with brick that is colored with light colors, and added with bright colors, having glass and stucco walls. It has an embossed surface that dulls the finish and diffuses the light. It also has a roofline that is 103 feet high. The second floor has a glass enclosed area that overlooks the atrium with bright colors surrounds it.
INTERVIEW WITH TADAO ANDO from http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/ando.html
what is the best moment of the day? no particular moment. morning maybe good because of the feeling of beginning.
what kind of music do you listen to at the moment? mostly classic.
what books do you have on your bedside table? I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature. I read a lot, but nothing comes to mind at the moment.
do you read architecture and design magazines? I don't read them. just look at it.
I assume you notice how women dress. do you have any preferences? I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.
what kind of clothes do you avoid wearing? nothing in particular.
do you have any pets? a dog named 'le corbusier'.
where do you work on your designs and projects? once I traveled a lot, to see the nature, the countryside and the cities, with a sketchbook... a practice I continue today. but plans actually I draw in my office.
who would you like to design something for? I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. although now we are more and more governed by the american way of thinking, money, the economy... I hope that now people will shift to a more european way (of thinking), culture, individuality, and that people move towards new goals. so for me to be able to contribute to this would be great.
do you discuss or exchange ideas with other architects? not much.
describe your style, like a good friend of yours would describe it. walls are the most basic elements of architecture, and in all my works, light is an important factor. the primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself within society. its very difficult to explain or describe my style, I hope the answer will come out of the interview.
what project has given you the most satisfaction? as an architect you have to do your best work for any project, but for me the most satisfying thing is when architecture can do something to make people's lives better, to inspire them.
do you try to find meeting points between asian and european cultures? I don't see them as opposites, the west and the east, but for example western society seems to be centered on american culture. but I think it is important to understand that apart from that main culture, there are so many other cultures, and it is necessary to respect them all and their differences.
is there any architect from the past you admire? of course I learned from history, from the renaissance, from mies van der rohe, le corbusier, terragni... many architects.
what current architects do you appreciate? like with the work of the past, as an architect you have to look around and see what your contemporaries are creating, for my contemporaries I have respect and interest.
did you always want to be an architect? right from the beginning yes, but in my life I have done many things, at one time I was a boxer... I was never a good student. I always preferred learning things on my own.
FROM WIKIPEDIA: Tadao Ando's body of work is known for the creative use of natural light and for architectures that follow the natural forms of the landscape (rather than disturbing the landscape by making it conform to the constructed space of a building). The architect's buildings are often characterized by complex three-dimensional circulation paths. These paths interweave between interior and exterior spaces formed both inside large-scale geometric shapes and in the spaces between them.
His "Row House in Sumiyoshi" (Azuma House), a small two-story, cast-in-place concrete house completed in 1976, is an early work that begins to show elements of his characteristic style. It consists of three equally sized rectangular volumes: two enclosed volumes of interior spaces separated by an open courtyard. By nature of the courtyard's position between the two interior volumes, it becomes an integral part of the house's circulation system.
Ando's housing complex at Rokko, just outside Kobe, is a complex warren of terraces and balconies and atriums and shafts. The designs for Rokko Housing One (1983) and for Rokko Housing Two (1993) illustrate a range of issues in the traditional architectural vocabulary -- the interplay of solid and void, the alternatives of open and closed, the contrasts of light and darkness. More significantly, Ando's noteworthy achievement in these clustered buildings is site specific -- the structures survived undamaged after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. New York Times architectural critic Paul Goldberger argues convincingly that "Ando is right in the Japanese tradition: spareness has always been a part of Japanese architecture, at least since the 16th century; [and] it is not for nothing that Frank Lloyd Wright more freely admitted to the influences of Japanese architecture than of anything American." Like Ando, Wright's site specific decision-making anticipated seismic activity; and like Ando's several Hyōgo-Awaji buildings, Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo did survive the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.
There's no more explanation from _kel_ in Flickr about this building, but "Nothing in particular - the office of a building company near Lelystadt, The Netherlands."
The building is interesting, with wide glass wall on one side and artistic arrangement of the aluminum framing. Interesting work
Flickr magical image of a house in Paris (?), I found this in here. There's no further explanation. But I think this house really show simplicity of geometric forms. There's a Japanese de ja vu in the facade. Don't you think?
Scaling his literal Curtain House into a larger and more dense development, Shigeru Ban’s Shutter Houses are one part architecture, one part art, and one part pure poetry from one of our favorite thoughtful architects. The 9-unit condo located in West Chelsea blurs the line between indoor and outdoor with a perforated metal shutter system that lets residence open and close their spaces on a whim.
Units range from 1,950 to 3,180-square-feet. The rolling shutters are inspired by Korean delis and Chelsea galleries that use industrial rolling grates to open and close their storefronts. Shigeru makes industrial chic, and allows urban dwellers to let the sunshine in and live among nature even in the bustling Big Apple. Metal Shutter Houses at 524 West 19th Street are scheduled for completion in Fall 2008.
Contemporary architecture is the architecture being made at the present time. It also includes that of the last few decades, from the 1980s to the present.
The idea of building this blog is to follow the most recent work of contemporary architecture design trough out the world.
This is Tuesday, September 11th 2007. Right with the happening of terroris attack in New York back in 2001. I hope this will be a start for something useful for us architect.
Thank you for visiting.
(the left picture is from the two towers in New York).
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