Poetics of ArchitectureIntangible channels to creativity
Creativity???• The urge to be a doer
• Constant search for the unique• Search for improvement for something else.• Day and night preoccupation, mental and
physics for new ways of doing things and new ideas.
• Source of happiness for those who create
Metaphor
• Intangible metaphor• Tangible metaphor• Combined metaphor
Stockholm Public library (Asplund –human skull)
Nautical museum, Bremerhaven – Hans Scharoun
Nakagin tower - Kurokawa
Blood service building – Antoine Predock
APERTURE CENTER, New Mexico - Antoine Predock
An ancient weathered presence like bones you might find in the high desert.An exploration of different aspects of bone – from the cross sectional beauty of bone’s lattice structure to volumetric fragments.
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery Skidmore College , New York- Antoine Predock
A stone ramp culminates in "one ivory tower", engaging earth and sky - beginning the journey of encounter.To articulate the fundamentally inseparable connection of art to human culture and consciousness.
American Heritage Center and Art Museum , Laramie - Antoine Predock
The appearance of this "archival" mountain can be thought of as parallel to the slow but certain geologic upheaval.
National Archive of Denmark - Antoine Predock
Conceived as a fortress of memory. Symbolizing the roots of the tree of knowledge These great masses or towers Express the monumental weight of this nation’s history.
The Las Vegas Central Library and Children’s Museum - Antoine Predock
built at the cultural heart of the city where temporary Paiute shelters and later permanent Anglo-American settlements were sited. Visitors experience the library and children’s museum as desert building and civic monument.
Rosenthal House, California - Antoine Predock
Both a container and an object of delight.Positioned in the right angle of a small triangular site, the house is X-shaped in plan with diagonal views to Malibu
Ronchamp – Le Corbusier
Library, University of Stockholm, Ralph Erskine
Metaphors – employed in literature and poetry – outdoor reading spaces
Price Residence, Bart PrinceThe Price Residence is a great example of organic architecture (organicism)
- free-flowing interior spaces- interlocking geometries- unique use of materials- very few orthogonal features- the Price’s wanted a feel of privacy as well asa connection with the ocean- windowless zones of rooms against adjoiningproperties
WHITING RESIDENCE – Bart Prince
A series of shingled roof forms sculpted to relate to nearby rolling hills.
Bart Prince’s studio & residence
Space ship???
Bubble house, France - Antti Lovag
Eliphante & Hippodome – Cornville, Arizona
Paradoxes• The presence of absence• The absence of presence• To construct is to de construct• To compose is to decompose• A city of life for the city of death
Metaphysics• Deals with unknown• Overall focus is the concepts of ‘infinity’ and ‘God’
The Upside-Down House – Szymbark, Poland
Crooked House – Sopot, Poland
Hundertwasser Haus – Vienna, Austria
An apartment complex characterized by patchwork paint, undulating floors, the incorporation of vegetation and a façade with seemingly no rhyme or reason to its structure.
Deconstructivism
• characterized by ideas of fragmentation, • an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's
surface or skin• non-rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and
dislocate some of the elements of architecture, such as structure and envelope.
• finished visual appearance - characterized by a stimulating unpredictability and a controlled chaos.
Wall House 2 – John Hejduk
Main feature of the whole project is a large wall/screen (14m high, 18.5m wide and 45cm deep) that separates the different areas of the house.
Dr Chau Chak Wing BuildingUniversity of technology Sydney, Australia - Gehry
“A cluster of “tree houses,” or vertical stacks of office floors with spatial “cracks” in between.
Bilbao museum - Gehry
BMW by Zaha Hadid
The Central Building is the nerve-centre of the whole factory complex with all the building's activities gathering and branching out again from here.
Guangzhou Opera House
The Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, China – Daniel Libeskind
Crystal City Centre – Daniel Libeskind
Denver Art museum extension - DL
Royal Ontario Museum – Daniel Libeskind
The Obscure
The Obscure
Obscure of the primordial
Obscure of the hibernating untouched
Highly personal, covered by layers of years, history, tradition, subconscious collective practices of people
Objective & physical characteristics - A source of inspiration for the creative process
Visual summary of components of the obscure
Newton's cenotaph• To isolate, to reinvent, the huge movement of time and celestial phenomena. •Along the top half of the sphere's edges, apertures in the stone allow light in, in pins, creating starlight when there is daylight.• During the night a huge and otherworldly light hangs, flooding the sphere, as sunlight.
During the day, the "night effect." During the night, day.'
Entree du cimmetiere
An architecture expressive of purpose, an approach his detractors termed
'architecture parlante' ('talking architecture').
Cénotaphe égyptien
Interior space is opened up to flow from one functional area to another rather than such areas being closed off in discrete separate 'rooms'.
Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht
Taj Mahal, India
Eric Mendelsohn’s sketches – buildings at night and day time
Einstein’s tower
Thanks giving chapel, Dallas
Expresses love for God
Poetry and literature
"Elpenorean architecture“ - Antonoides
Many STEPS and TERRACES, FOOD – WINE and LOVE…. Then, DEATH….
Alternative design proposals for the Demosthenes Stephanides senior citizens' center in Skyros
Compact/centralized/most economic solution ( an "institutional"approach)
Emphasis on "individuality" with centralized communal functions
Carry the "Street"atmosphere of the Greek island into the senior citizen facility
Introverted proposal with common facilities and private cells around an open patio.
Conceptual consulting Design for a Casino development by a Native American Tribe in Oklahoma on tribal land by Highway 66
The exotic and multicultural
New Museum of the Acropolis
Panhellenic competition entry,1978. (in collaboration with David Browning, Aaron Farmer and Daron Tapscott-for an Honor's fourth year Design studio at UTA)
Naoshima School
Studio Project