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Le Corbusier is here…. and his alive ….

Posted in buildings, public buildings with tags 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize., Amateur Architecture Studio, Art Academy in Hangzhou, Chandigarh, CONSCIOUS INSPARATION PAGE, Conscious Inspiration Method, eliinbar’s sketchbook 2012, Hans Sharoun, inspiration sources, La Tourette, La Tourette Monastery, Le Corbusier, new Art Academy in Hangzhou, Philharmonic building in Berlin-Tiergarten, planning strategy, Pritzker Architecture Prize., Sainte Marie de La Tourette monastery, SANAA, sources of inspiration, Unite d' Habitation Reze', Wang Shu, Zollverein School of Management & Design on May 15, 2012 by eliinbar

From eliinbar’s sketchbook 2012 - Wang Shu’s inspiration Sources

The Chinese architect Wang Shu, has been awarded the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

I must confess….
I was unfamiliar with the work of Shu Wang,

In this post I present a building designed by Shu Wang….The new Art Academy in Hangzhou China.

It is really hard to ignore the inspiration sources of this building….there is a strong sense that Le Corbusier is still among us…. working in China….

The design strategy adopted by Shu Wang In China Is a combination of modernist architectural citations along with awareness to local materials and local construction methods …

It reminds me Le Corbusier’s approach. while planning Chandigarh in India, in the 1950s.

Here are Selected photos of the New Art Academy Hangzhou designed by Wang Shu, and his possible sources of inspiration…. For you to judge….

Amateur Architecture Studio / Wang Shu architect

New Art Academy Hangzhou China

published in Arch daily IN 2009

Le Corbusier Architect

Unité d ‘ Habitation Rezé

Nantes,France built from 1952 to 1954

Amateur Architecture Studio / Wang Shu architect

New Art Academy Hangzhou China

published in Arch daily in 2009

Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis Architects

Sainte Marie de La Tourette monastery

in a valley near Lyon, France 1953-1960

Amateur Architecture Studio / Wang Shu architect

New Art Academy Hangzhou China

published in Arch daily in 2009

Hans Sharoun Architect

Philharmonic building in Berlin-Tiergarten

Germany 1960-1963

Amateur Architecture Studio / Wang Shu architect

New Art Academy Hangzhou China

published in Arch daily in 2009

SANAA rchitects

Zollverein School of Management & Design

Essen,Germany 2003-2006

What did I learn from this post?

1. Wang Shu actually designs his buildings according to the principles of the conscious inspiration method.

2. He chooses wisely Le Corbusier to be his main inspiration source….(And others).
3. He developed a planning strategy refers to his projects surrounding environment..

4. He consciously cites his sources of inspiration.

and finally he is awarded the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize .

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Steven Holl , El Lissitzky and the HORIZONTAL SKYSCRAPERS

Posted in buildings, public buildings with tags American Library, CONSCIOUS INSPIRATION PAGE, El Lissitzky, eliinbar Sketches 2012, eliinbar's Sketch book 2012, Horizontal Skyscraper, La Tourette Monastery, Le Corbusier, Lebbeus Woods, Nanjing museum of art and architecture, Spatial Retaining Bars, Steven Holl, VANKE CENTER on January 17, 2012 by eliinbar

eliinbar’s Sketch book 2012 - Steven Holl’s Inspiration Sources

In 1923–1925 El Lissitzky proposed and developed the idea of horizontal skyscrapers

Lissitzky argued that as long as humans cannot fly, moving horizontally is natural and moving vertically is not….

Where there is not sufficient land for construction, a new plane created in the air at medium altitude should be preferred to an American- tower.

These buildings, according to Lissitzky, also provided superior insulation and ventilation for their inhabitants.

More than 80 years later (2006) Steven Holl designe an horizontal Skyscraper. The Vanke Center in Shenzhen, China, a mixed-use building including hotel, offices, serviced apartments, and public park (2006-2009)

El Lissitzky’s proposed horizontal skyscraper 1923–1925

Steven Holl Architect horizontal skyscraper

VANKE CENTER in Shenzhen

China 2006-2009

Eliinbar sketches 2012 Steven Holl’s Inspiration Sources?

Epilogue:

1. In the drawing above , Steven Holl compares his horizontal skyscraper To a Typical American skyscraper.

2. I still wonder if the inspiration source for Holl’s buildings Mentioned in my sketch-book above are Actually Le Corbusier’s La Tourette Monastery….

3. I recommend everyone who is interested in the work of Holl, to read Lebbeus Woods post dealing with Steven Holl’s Horizontal Skyscraper.

Steven Holl’s Spatial Retaining Bars, Phoenix, 1994

Steven Holl’s American Library expansion, Berlin, 1984

Steven Holl’s Nanjing museum of art and architecture 2011

You are invited to visit my recent and relevant posts:

Le Corbusier & Steven Holl http://archidialog.com/2010/03/08/le-corbusier-steven-holl/

La Tourette ” Conscios Inspiration” 2 http://archidialog.com/2010/09/20/la-tourette-conscios-inspiration-2/

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Le Corbusier & Tadao Ando “Conscious Inspiration”

Posted in buildings, public buildings with tags Conscious Inspiration, conscious inspiration signs, Dionysiou Monastery, eliinbar Sketches 2011, La Tourette Monastery, Le Corbusier, Omotesando Hills, Tadao Ando on February 19, 2011 by eliinbar

Tadao Ando unlike most contemporary architects did not receive any formal architectural schooling. Instead, he trained himself by reading and traveling extensively through Africa, Europe, and the United States.

Tadao Ando was studying architecture by going to see actual buildings, and reading books about them. His first interest in architecture was nourished in tadao’s 15 by buying a book of Le Corbusier sketches. “I traced the drawings of his early period so many times, that all pages turned black,” says Tadao Ando: “in my mind I quite often wonder how Le Corbusier would have thought about this project or that.“

Le Corbusier Architect

Couvent Sainte-Marie de la Tourette

Eveux-sur-l’Arbresle, France, 1953

Tadao Ando Architect

Omotesando Hills, a large shopping and residential development

Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, Japan Completion 2006

The “conscious inspiration” Signs:

1. Both buildings deal with horizontal layers

(the “multi layered cake effect”)

2. Significant source of inspiration is the inner courtyard

building type.

3. The Upper floors are “dependent on the hillside”.

4. Various materials and configurations are used to

highlight the differences between floors.

A Tadao Ando’s quote that “explains” the intention of “Conscious Inspiration”:

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

More information about Le Corbusier and La Tourette Monastery

You are invited to visit my recent and relevant posts

http://archidialog.com/2010/09/11/

http://archidialog.com/2010/09/14

http://archidialog.com/2010/09/20/

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La Tourette ” Conscios Inspiration” 2

Posted in buildings, public buildings with tags American Memorial Library Berlin, CONSCIOUS INSPARATION PAGE, Conscious Inspiration, eliinbar Sketches 2010, Generating Plans, La Tourette, La Tourette Monastery, Le Corbusier, Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona, Richard Meier, Steven Holl, Wall Building 2 on September 20, 2010 by eliinbar

Floor plans can be a Source of inspiration for architects.

We can call these plans “Generating Plans” …. A floor plan which generates inspiration.

Here are Two examples of “ Conscious inspiration”.

La Tourette floor plans inspired talented architects….

1. The Wall Buildings:

La Tourette Floor Plan Level 3

Hedjuk Architect

Wall House 2

Gronigen , The netherlands ,1967-73

Richard Meier Architect

Museum of Contemporary Art

Barcelona , 1992-95

La Tourette Eliinbar sketches 2010

Richard Alan Meier was born in 1934 in Newark New Jersey. Twenty-five years later – after graduating from Cornell University’s Architecture School, and after Cornell, working briefly for SOM – Meier decided that the best mentor he could personally select was Swiss-born architect, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. Of course, most of us know Jeanneret by the name he gave himself – ‘Le Corbusier‘ a spin on his grandfather’s name that resembled this French word for Raven.To meet the great man, Meier would need to travel to Paris. Once there, he intended to ask Le Corbusier if he could become an intern. And oh, by the way, he would make this request with an attached offer that he believed that Le Corbusier could not refuse – he would work for free.

La-Tourette

Hejduk Architect _ Wall House2

Richard Meier _ Museum of Contemporary Art _ Barcelona

John Hedjuk profound interest in the fundamental issues of shape, organization,representation, and reciprocity. He argued that the first duty of architecture is to challenge and inspire:At la Tourette Le Corbusier emphasize the hierarchy between the big prier room and small one by putting the Small one “outside the wall” In the “Wall House” Hedjuk employs the same vocabulary of Le Corbusier to explore the relationship between inside and outside , in a more extreme way than did the Swiss-French master.

2. The Multi levels Cloister Concept

La Tourette Floor Plan 1

Steven Holl Architect _ American Memorial Library _ Berlin_ Competition 1988 – Floor Plans

La Tourette Eliinbar sketches 2010

La Tourette

Steven Holl Architect _ American Memorial Library – Model

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La Tourette – “Conscious Inspiration” 1

Posted in public buildings with tags Conscious Inspiration, Coop Himmelblow, Kunsthaus, La Tourette, La Tourette Monastery, Le Corbusier, Peter Cook, Practical inspiration, Typological inspiration on September 14, 2010 by eliinbar

Here are two examples of “conscious inspiration” inspired by La Tourette:
1. “Typological inspiration” the focus is on the “Form”
2. “Practical Inspiration” The focus is on “functionality”.