Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
One can note the skill of the Japanese in joining things together, their ingenuity with tiny pieces of wood or folded aluminium or moving parts and, most tellingly, the layering of skins, screens or translucent layers. Projects such as the Frankfurt Westhafen vertical museum or its clone, the Kawasaki Information City could not have existed without borrowing or reinterpreting a Japanese sense of placing, then distancing, and thereafter, proceeding between a conscious combination of discreet and focused objects. One builds up a complex mixture of inspirations, flashbacks, association of ideas with places, strange and inconsistent assumptions of aptness or non‐aptness that are the product of endless exposure to architecture in many places, architectural conversations in many cities and visits to buildings accompanied by their authors. At a certain point one builds up a rule‐of‐thumb value system. One becomes a fan of some, a crony of others and an architectural trainspotter.
One can note the skill of the Japanese in joining things together, their ingenuity with tiny pieces of wood or folded aluminium or moving parts and, most tellingly, the layering of skins, screens or translucent layers. Projects such as the Frankfurt Westhafen vertical museum or its clone, the Kawasaki Information City could not have existed without borrowing or reinterpreting a Japanese sense of placing, then distancing, and thereafter, proceeding between a conscious combination of discreet and focused objects. One builds up a complex mixture of inspirations, flashbacks, association of ideas with places, strange and inconsistent assumptions of aptness or non‐aptness that are the product of endless exposure to architecture in many places, architectural conversations in many cities and visits to buildings accompanied by their authors. At a certain point one builds up a rule‐of‐thumb value system. One becomes a fan of some, a crony of others and an architectural trainspotter.
Motive 6: New Places and Strange Bedfellows
Cook, Peter (Herausgeber:in)
Architecture Workbook ; 154-185
29.01.2016
32 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
buildings , assumptions , rule‐of‐thumb , inspirations , elevation , places , combination , extension , Japanese sense , projects , ideas
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