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Gaudi & J. Mayer H. ” Conscious Inspiration”

Posted in buildings with tags Antoni Gaudi, Casa Milla, Conscious Inspiration, eliinbar Sketches 2010, J. Mayer H. on May 17, 2011 by eliinbar

Mayer is a prominent architect that makes its way up. A building, designed by Mayer, was published on a post of mine. about Gaudi.

Antoni Gaudi

Casa Mila’ Apartment building

Barcelona 1905-1912

J. Mayer Architects

JOH3 apartments

Berlin ,pulished 2010

eliinbar Sketches 2010 Conscious Inspiration

Mayer applies the principles of “Conscious Inspiration”

I will illustrate it in the coming future posts.

“Conscious Inspiration” is practicing and acquiring tools to improve observation and differentiation of details.

Check the CONSCIOUS INSPARATION PAGE

in my Facebook

In my blog, I juxtapose examples of projects without the intention to insinuate that one architect copied from another, but rather to spur a dialog among architects.

The goal is to encourage an architectural planning process that I like to call Conscious Inspiration.

I am obviously not the first to consider this approach:

Le Corbusier mentions in one of his books that his sources of inspiration for the Cathedral of Ron Champ was Villa Adriana at Tivoli. The French architect Emile Aillaud describes in his writings that his source of inspiration for 3 office buildings in LA Defense (near Paris) was the Piazza Dei Miracoli with the Tower of Pisa. Louis Kahan eventually got his inspiration to design the Hurva Synagogue from the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, and Tadao Ando traveled all over Europe to get inspired by existing buildings as a way to train him self to become an architect..

So far, I have only scratched the surface of this concept, and I am in the beginning of this journey. I believe the journey itself may lead us architects to a more rigorous architectural planning.

Eli Inbar

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SANAA – Inspired by a hole in a facade?

Posted in buildings, public buildings with tags Conscious Inspiration, eliinbar Sketches 2010, Goldman House, Preston Scott Cohen, SANAA, Sollverein School of Management & design on December 7, 2010 by eliinbar

Preston Scott Cohen is a Boston based designer and the Gerald M. McCue Professor in Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD).

He is the winner of the Herta and Paul Amir Competition ( 2004 ) to design a new building for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the winner of the competition to built the Taiyuan Museum of Art .

Preston Scott Cohen Architect

Goodman-house

Pine Plains, NY , USA 2001-2004

SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) is an architectural firm based in Tokyo. It was founded in 1995 by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. In 2010, Sejima and Nishizawa were awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor.

SANAA Architects

Zollverein School of Management & Design

Essen ,Germany 2003-2006

The Zollverein School of Management & Design, inaugurated on July 31, 2006, is the first new building on the historical coal-mining Zollverein site; declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2001.

SANAA on the Zollverein School:

1.“Our aim was to achieve transparency in the concrete structure.”
2.“We have made many big openings in the facades to create different daylight situations inside the building. The position of the windows are defined by the interior programs. By varying the ceiling heights each floor has a very different atmosphere.”

Preston Scott Cohen on the Goodman House:

A curtain wall with irregularity distributed windows wraps the peripheral steel frame. It is if nostalgia caused the emergence of a modernist paradigm of construction more fitting to a commercial building than to a house.

Is this another example of “Conscious Inspiration”?

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Extrovert inspiration

Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bernaskoni Architrct, Cholula Pyramid, Conscious Inspiration, Danish Pavilion expo 2010, El Castillo pyramid, eliinbar Sketches 2010, Expo 2010, Extrovert inspiration, Le Corbusier, Oslo Opera House, Perm Museum, Polish Pavillon Expo 2010, Snohetta Architects on December 4, 2010 by eliinbar

Le Corbusiers’ quote defining what is a house ?:

A house is a machine for living in….

Recently I came across a number of public buildings that Invite the public to climb on them ….

Pyramid El Castillo in Chichen Itzan Mexico was built between 9th and 12th centuries by the pre-Colombian Maya ,and is designed to allow the public to get on it….

Maybe El Castillo pyramid was the source of inspiration for some recent designed buildings….

Snohetta Architects

Oslo Opera House

Norway 2003-2007

Polish Pavilion

Shanghai Expo 2010

Danish Pavilion

Shanghai Expo 2010

Barnaskoni Architect

Perm Museum

Perm Russia competition winners 2010

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Le Corbusier Ronchamp Chapel ” Sacred Inspiration” 2

Posted in public buildings with tags Conscious Inspiration, eliinbar Sketches 2010, First Unitarian Church, Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, Our lady of the Angels Cathedral, Rafael Moneo, Ronchamp Chapel, Sacred Inspiration on December 1, 2010 by eliinbar

Louis Kahn Architect

First Unitarian Church and School

Rochester NY 1959-1969

Louis Kahn Designed an built the First Unitarian Church and School in Rochester NY from 1959 to 1969

Kahn’s earliest known sketches show that he was working with a centralized concept.

His Desire was to create a single unified structure appropriate to Unitarianism….

Another influence of past solutions to church planning was Rudolf Wittkower’s Architectural Principles in the age of Humanism which illustrated centrally planned Renaissance churches.

Did Ronchamp chapel was another source of inspiration for Louis Kahn?

Note the concrete heavy flouting roof and the distribution of the indirect day light coming from hidden windows.

Kahn First Unitarian Church eliinbar Sketches 2010

Le Corbusier Ronchamp Chapel eliinbar Sketches 2010

Rafael Moneo Lady of the Angels Cathedral eliinbar Sketches 2010

Le Corbusier Ronchamp Chapel “Sacred Inspiraion”

Posted in public buildings with tags Conscious Inspiration, eliinbar Sketches 2010, Le Corbusier, Our lady of the Angels Cathedral, Rafael Moneo, Ronchamp Chapel, Sacred Inspiration on November 28, 2010 by eliinbar

Here is another example of “conscious inspiration”….

Relevant citations of Corbusier:

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage.

Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.

Le Corbusier Architect

Ronchamp Chapel

Notre Dame Du Haut France 1950-54

Rafael Moneo Architect

Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral

Los Angeles California USA 1996-2002

Moneo Is inspired by Le Corbusiers’ Ron champ Chapel And design a masterpiece cathedral in los Angeles . ” It was the human hand which affirmed the space as sacred, a physical act in a spiritual space”….

Moneo Is inspired by Le Corbusiers’ Ron champ Chapel…. and that is “Conscious Inspiration”….

Le Corbusier-Ronchamp Chapel “Conscious Inspiration” 2

Posted in buildings, public buildings with tags availability of architecture information, Conscious Inspiration, eliinbar Sketches 2010, Le Corbusier, Mansilla+Tunon, Practical inspiration, Typoloical Inspiration, WRNS Sttudio on November 24, 2010 by eliinbar

Corbusier designed and built the Ronchamp Chapel from 1950 to 1954.

Since then the chapel is a source of inspiration for talented architects.

Here is another example of Conscious Inspiration….

I can Predict that the Mansilla & Tunon’s Concert Hall was the PRATICAL and TYPOLOGICAL inspiration for WRNS STUDIO.

The AVALABILITY of architecture INFORMATION is an important “woorking – tool“.

It helps us to impliment the principles of “Conscious Inspiration”.

Le Corbusier Architect

Ronchamp Chapel

Notre Dame du Haut, France 1950-1954

Mansilla & Tunon Architects

Concert Hall Leon spain 2003

WRNS Studio

Parking Structure

San Francisco USA 2009

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REX Architects & ” Conscious Inspiration”

Posted in buildings, public buildings with tags Conscious Inspiration, eliinbar Sketches 2010, enlightenment Inspiration, Joshua Prince-Ramus, Kunsthaus, Le Corbusier, Le P, Mas Museum, Munch Museum, Museum Plaza, MVRDV, Neutelings Riedijk, Peter Zumthor, Rex, Rex Architects, Typoloical Inspiration, Wrap-up Inspiration on November 13, 2010 by eliinbar

REX architects office with Joshua Prince-Ramus as princial ,is one of the leading architects offices in recent years.

Here are projects designed by REX ,in the years Rem Koolhaas was still a partner And after….

1.

Zumthor Architect

Kunsthaus ( Art Museum )

Bergenz

REX Architects

Munch Museum

Oslo _ Norway

Competition

enlightenment inspiration

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…

2.

Neutelings Riedijk Architect

Mas Museum

REX architects

Kortrijk Library

Kortrijk – Belgium

Wrap- Up Inspiration

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3.

REX architects _ Museum Plaza _ Louisville _ Kentuky _ USA

MVRDV Architects _ Mirador _ Sanchinarro _ Spain

Typological Inspiration

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4.

Le Corbusier

Le palais du Gouverneur

Chandigarh

REX Architects

Vakko Fashion Center

And Power Media Center

Formal Inspiration

….

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Two quotations from the REXs’ site, describing the firm’s Approach :

1.

Architects have retreated from the accountability (and productivity) of Master Builders to the safety (and impotence) of stylists.

2.The media sells simple, catchy ideas; it reduces teams to individuals and their collaborative work to genius sketches. The proliferation of this false notion of "starchitecture" diminishes the real teamwork that drives celebrated architecture.

Very exciting …. REX Describe two of the reasons why I suggest to implement “Conscious Inspiration”….

Availability of the “ architecture information” probably affects the planning processes and thinking of the modern architecture Office. I hope the planning process that I like to call “Conscious Inspiration” Will give architects the tools to cope with the abundance of information, and Create quality and creative architecture….

Eli Inbar

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Zaha Hadid the “Dancing Towers – Concept”

Posted in buildings with tags Conscious Inspiration, Dancing Towers, eliinbar Sketches 2010, Farrer Court, MVRDV, The Stone Towers, Zaha Hadid on November 7, 2010 by eliinbar

On 14 October I published a post showing an Option ,that two leading architects were Inspired….

Here are tow more Projects Designed by one of the talented architects ,using the same typological principle I introduced in the 14 octobers’ Post.

Is this an example of “Conscious Inspiration” ?

Zaha Hadid Architect

Farrer Court _ Singapore

2008

Zaha Hadid Architect

The Stone Towers

Cairo _ Egypt _ 2009

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MVRDV & Zaha Hadid

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Zaha Hadid & MVRDV – “Conscious Inspiration”

Posted in buildings, public buildings with tags Conscious Inspiration, Dancing Towers, eliinbar Sketches 2010, Kissing Towers, MVRDV, Zaha Hadid on October 14, 2010 by eliinbar

At the year 2002 , MVRDV architects office designed a group of towers for the Donau city in Vienna. The project was inspired by critical thinking about skyscrapers.

The result was a three dimensional City.

MVRDV’s towers were called the “Kissing Towers”.

At the same year Zaha Hadid designed two ”Kissing Towers” for Ground -zero in New- York City.

Four years later Zaha Hadid designed three towers for Dubai, they were called the “Dancing Towers”.