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Le Corbusier Is probably the “Conscious Inspiration” Father, but without doubt, Rem Koolhaas is the Contemporary Inspiration Source for leading architects

Posted in Inspiration Source, public buildings with tags configuration, Conscious Inspiration, De Rotterdam complex, Dezeen, Eliinbar’s Sketchbook 2014, Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright, inspiration Source, kazuyo sejima, Le Corbusier, main configuration, OMA, Pritzker Architecture Prize., Rem Koolhaas, Ryue Nishizawa, SANAA, separate volumes, shifted boxes, Shifted buildings, shifted volumes, shifting, SHIFTING TYPOLOGY, vertical city on June 23, 2014 by eliinbar

From Eliinbar’s Sketchbook 2014– Rem Koolhaas and SANAA Typology of a Shifted Buildings

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After a long break, I’m back.. Business as usual .. Nothing new under the sun.

Today’s post will be the first of a series, inquiring whether one of the leading architectural firms in the world, office of Architecture OMA led by Rem Koolhaas, is a popular Inspiration Sources among leading architects today.

Each post will introduce a building designed by Rem Koolhaas . I will identify the building main configuration, and its origins. Then I will unfold some buildings, we can identify characteristics indicating they were influenced by Rem Koolhaas .

In other words, Rem Koolhaas’s buildings, most likely were their Inspiration Source

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The Inspiration Source

This is the new De Rotterdam complex a “vertical city” in Rotterdam completed in 2013

Commission 1997, groundbreaking December 2009, completion November 2013

Rem Koolhaas’s quote published in DEZEEN :

“a building that consists of separate volumes that were slightly shifted vis-a-vis each other“

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The main configuration

Here is a sketch I made, that explains the principles of the typology of a Shifted Buildings

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The origins

And this building is Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Falling Water” built in the USA in 1934 . this building is probably one of the known examples of Shifted Buildings.

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Frank Lloyd Wright- “Falling Water”

Plans, sections and elevations

Note that the principle of shifting is expressed in plans, sections and elevations

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Conscious Inspiration today

This is a Museum built lately in NewYork City,designed by Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa.

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa are partners in the Japanese architectural firm SANAA.

SANAA has won the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the profession’s highest honor.

SANAA received the commission of this Museum in 2002 and completion was in 2007

SANAA‘s Museum is a multi purpose buildings with an ambitious program a dramatic stack of seven rectangular boxes.

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The following video explains well the museum main configuration

Of shifted boxes.

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What do the architects have to say?

This is how Rem koolhaas describes the main configuration of the De Rotterdam complex: “a building that consists of separate volumes that were slightly shifted vis-a-vis each other”

From: DEZEEN

And this is SANAA’s description for the museum in New York: “We knew we could not maximize the entire site with solid architecture, we had to reduce the building’s mass somehow to create space between it and the perimeter. The solution of the shifted boxes arrived quickly”.

From New Building Museume

Notice that Rem Koolhaas and SANAA are using the same basic notions to describe their buildings: “shifted volumes / boxes“.

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From Eliinbar’s Sketchbook 2014– Rem Koolhaas and SANAA Typology of a Shifted Buildings

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Memories

Glimpse to the past

you are invited to visit my relevant posts

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MVRDV Inspiration …. Or a self fulfilling prophecy

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Rem Koolhaas & MVRDV-”Conscious Inspiration”5

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Here are some more contemporary buildings,designed by the same principle of SHIFTING TYPOLOGY….OMA’s De Rotterdam complex most likely is their Inspiration Source

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Shifted Buildings

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Zaha Hadid helps us raise a critical issue that should concern us all …. how to get inspired from existing buildings consciously

Posted in buildings, public buildings with tags Copy Paste, Eliinbar's sketchbook 2013, Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim museum, inspiration, Inspiration sketch Gallery, Inspiration Sketch Gallery by Eli Inbar, inspired consciously, ISG, Norman Foster, Norman Foster and Ken Shuttle worth architects, Wangjing SOHO, Zaha Hadid on April 30, 2013 by eliinbar

From Eliinbar’s Sketchbook 2013 -Zaha Hadid and the “Copy Paste” Syndrom

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Today’s post gets a boost from two recent articles, published in ARCHDAILY

The articles explor the disturbing phenomenon of “copy-paste” in architecture

You already know my opinion on this subject

The main question is not whether to copy existing buildings

This has been a fact, which is part of our professional life

You are invited to examine hundreds of examples that reinforce this claim in my blog

Our challenge today, as I would put it

is how to get inspired consciously from existing buildings

Do not be ashame to be inspired by existing buildings, as long as you do it consciously

Certainly, this is the natural process, which architecture is going towards

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For the fourth time, Since I started the“Conscious Inspiration” project = 100 Conscious projects in 200 days , Here is another relevant example published in ARCHDAILY in 9 april 2013

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This is Zaha Hadid‘s Wangjing SOHO from 2011

Zaha Hadid Architect

Wangjing SOHO China

published 2011

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“And the next image is Zaha Hadid‘s Wangjing Soho “twin

This building is under construction, It is built in Chongqing , china

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?Do you realy think this post will stop with the Chongqing project

Obviously it will not finish there, because “Copy Paste” is has been a fact, which is part of our professional life

We have just seen an example from “real life“, Zaha Hadid‘s Wangjing SOHO

But the phenomenon is much broader and complex

This is our reality, and we can not ignore it

So let’s not fight it. or forbid or even despise this phenomenon

Our duty is to develop methods and ways to “copy” properly

Or as I put it , to be inspired consciously

To avoid any misunderstanding , I am not talking about waking in the morning with a some kind of ready-made inspiration

To be inspired consciously is a structured process we can practice it and perfect it

I feel ready to share with you my thoughts ,how to apply it in our professional life

….To be continued

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let’s get back to the regular course of this post

what do you think was Zaha Hadid‘s inspiration source when she designed the Wangjing SOHO

Well I can suggest this projects….for you to judge

Frank Lloyd Wright Architect

Guggenheim Museum

View from outside 1959

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Norman Foster and Ken Shuttle worth architects

London City Hal 2002

Note the sophistication of this buildings

a dominant oval building profile

characterized by varying shapes and sizes,

but built with repetitive unique peripheral windows

You can identify the same characteristics at Zaha Hadid’s Galaxy Soho

shown in the following sketch

From Eliinbar’s Sketchbook 2013 – Zaha Hadid and the “Copy Paste” Syndrom

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Here are examples that strengthen my argument, that “copy-paste” is a common phenomenon these days

The “twin” that was found to Zaha Hadid’s Wangjing SOHO Is not a single incident

this is a common phenomenon

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Here are some examples for you to judge

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Architectural firm Yassky, Moore ,Sivan Inbal Or’s Project Arlozorov Towers ,Tel Aviv 2011

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MAD Architects design the Absolute Towers

2010 Residential condominiums in Mississauga, Ontario

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Inspiration,Inspiration;Inspiration …. West and east… Well there are mutual relations between them…. another reflection for “Conscious Inspiration” ?

Posted in buildings, public buildings with tags Capsule Tower, Casa Bianchi, Conscious Inspiration, CONSCIOUS INSPIRATION PAGE, East, eliinbar's Sketch book 2012, Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright, inspiration, Kaufmann House, Kisho Kurokawa, Louis Kahn, Mario Botta, mutual relations, Nakagin Capsule Tower, National Assembly Building, National Assembly Building in Dacca, Sanatorium Zori Rossii, Simona Rota, Simona Rota’s photographs, Soviet Modernism, WALLPAPER, West on November 18, 2012 by eliinbar

From Eliinbar’s Sketch book 2012 – The mutual inspirational relations between west and east

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My inspiration for this post are Simona Rota’s photographs, published in WALLPAPER on “Soviet Modernism”. Unknown Stories”!!

Thank you Simona….

In my last post, I showed the mutual inspirational relations, between the “Soviet Modernism” architecture, built in the second half of the 20th century and western architecture, built in the last two decades….

In this post, I would like to share with you some of the strange cases of conscious and unconscious inspiration…. from the “Soviet Modernism” period….

Let’s look at some of Simona Rota’s photographs….

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This is the known Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower built in Tokyo, Japan 1970-1972

Kisho Kurokawa architect

Residential, office

Tokyo, Japan 1970-1972

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And this is a residential building built in the 1980s in Bobrujsk, Belarus

Residential Building on Minskaya Street

1980s, Bobrujsk, Belarus

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From Eliinbar’s Sketch book 2012 – Kisho Kurokawa and them mutual inspirational relations between west and east

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This is the known Kaufmann House / “Falling water” designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright architect

Kaufmann House “Falling water”

Mill Run, Pennsylvania USA 1936- 1939

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And this is the Sanatorium Zori Rossii

Sanatorium Zori Rossii (Sunrise of Russia), 1985, Crimea, Ukraine
Copyright: Simona Rota

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From Eliinbar’s Sketch book 2012 – Frank Lloyd Wright and the mutual inspirational relations between west and east

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And finally ….. You have already recognize the following picture, taken by Simona Rota?…. It was shown in my previous post

Cascade – the development of Northern Radius

1975- mid 2000s,

Yerevan, Armenia .Copyright: Simona Rota

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This is Louis Kahn’s National Assembly Building in Dacca, Bangladesh. 1962 to 1974

Louis Kahn Architect

National Assembly Building in

Dacca, Bangladesh. 1962 to 1974

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Now look at the building in the upper right corner of Simona Rota’s photograph, shown in the next image….

See the formal similarity to Kahn’s National AssemblyBuilding in Dacca

Notice the circular opening, separated by a horizontal Beam….

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From Eliinbar’s Sketch book 2012 – the mutual inspirational relations between west and east

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And this is Mario Botta’s “Casa Bianchi” 1971 – 1973

Mario Botta architect

La Casa Bianchi

Riva San Vitale Switzerland 1971 – 1973

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Now look at the building in the upper left corner of Simona Rota’s photograph shown in the next image….

See the formal similarity to Botta’s Casa Bianchi

Notice the square shape of the structure and the dominant pillar in the corner….

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From Eliinbar’s Sketch book 2012 – the mutual inspirational relations between west and east

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The “Conscious Inspiration Method‘ , How it Works?

First step: the inspiration Source.

Second step: Developing the Conscious Inspiration tools.

Third step: Realize the design idea.

The five “HOWS” of the “Conscious Inspiration Method”

The ultimate inspiration methodology:

1. How to filter out relevant Knowledge from the Web with abundance of information?

2. How to develop your own Vision?

3. How to choose the right “Inspiration Sources” that empowers your Vision?

4. How to develop your personal Design tools?

5. How to use your Inspiration Sources as the “Planning Process Generator”, and design high quality and creative architecture?

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

The abundance of information in the Web affects us all, as I illustrate in my posts.

I Believe that designing is a process formed from three main phases: knowledge, tools and invention.

“Knowledge”: as many said, and wrote before – Knowledge is the foundation for all designing process. We architects and designers are obliged to be informed about everything that was designed in the past and on a daily basis….

“Tools”: develop tools to analyze buildings and “Understand” them, tools that will cope with the abundance of architectural information…

(I intend to demonstrate some of my ideas in future posts)

“Invention”: with the methodology of “conscious Inspiration” , we don’t need to be intimidated to get inspired from relevant buildings. Once we develop our tools, it will lead us to high quality and creative architecture.

Eli Inbar

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Inspiration, Consciousness and “copy paste”….and everything in between….

Posted in buildings, public buildings with tags Conscious Inspiration, Conscious Inspiration Method, CONSCIOUS INSPIRATION PAGE, consciousness, Copy Paste, eliinbar's Sketch book 2012, Frank Lloyd Wright, inspiration, Invention, Johnson Wax Headquarters building, Mushroom Pillars on November 4, 2012 by eliinbar

From Eliinbar’s Sketch book 2012 -”Copy Paste” Or “Conscious Inspiration”

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The example presented to you in this post, is a bit confusing….

I must admit ….At first glance, I thought this example is a typical incident of “copy-paste”

Later on I changed my mind….

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This is a new building built in Taiwan

For more information about this building, browse to the next Site: http://forgemind.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&p=111763

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Now look at the following Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the 30s (1936 to 1939)

This is the Interior, “Great Workroom”, of the Johnson Wax Headquarters building.

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You probably noticed the obvious morphological resemblance between the “Mushroom Pillars”,in both projects .

Notice also the innovative system, that allowed natural light to penetrate in between the “Mushroom Pillars”.…

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Let’s find out, how to distinguish between projects that are inspired “Consciously “to” copy-paste”.

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What distinguishes “Conscious Inspiration “from “copy-paste” ?

….When we add our “Invention”.

I believe that each one of us can give a better expression to his talents by adding an Invention ….to an existing building….

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Once again look at the next image of the building built in Taiwan

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Now here comes the “Invention”…..

See the bottom of the next sketch.

From Eliinbar’s Sketch book 2012 “Conscious Inspiration” “Invention”…..

Notice the non-symmetrical shape of the”Mushroom Pillars” of the Taiwan’s building ….

Notice also the smooth and liquid appearance of the “Mushroom Pillars’s”….Unlike the structural appearance of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Johnson Wax Headquarters building. ….

Also note the Ideal Disorder dispersion of the “Mushroom Pillars” in accordance with the “Ideal Disorder Design Strategy” = IDDS….

Unlike the orthogonal dispersion of the”Mushroom Pillars” in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Johnson Wax Headquarters building.

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For you to judge….

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What did I learn from this post?

1. I believe that each one of us can give a better expression to his talents and Invention ….by implement the “Conscious Inspiration” Method ….

2. Be inspired consciously from existing buildings. It will lead us to experience a unique design process that will serve our creative desires….

3. The initial difference between “Copy Paste” and “Conscious Inspiration”

Is adding our “Invention”…..

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The “Conscious Inspiration Method‘ , How it Works?

First step: the inspiration Source.

Second step: Developing the Conscious Inspiration tools.

Third step: Realize the design idea.

The five “HOWS” of the “Conscious Inspiration Method”

The ultimate inspiration methodology:

1. How to filter out relevant Knowledge from the Web with abundance of information?

2. How to develop your own Vision?

3. How to choose the right “Inspiration Sources” that empowers your Vision?

4. How to develop your personal Design tools?

5. How to use your Inspiration Sources as the “Planning Process Generator”, and design high quality and creative architecture?

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

The abundance of information in the Web affects us all, as I illustrate in my posts.

I Believe that designing is a process formed from three main phases: knowledge, tools and invention.

“Tools”: develop tools to analyze buildings and “Understand” them, tools that will cope with the abundance of architectural information…

(I intend to demonstrate some of my ideas in future posts)

Eli Inbar

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Zaha Hadid & Frank Lloyd Wright ….Do aspirations for reality begins in our drawings?

Posted in buildings, public buildings with tags Arabic-calligraphy, CONSCIOUS INSPARATION PAGE, Conscious Inspiration, Conscious Inspiration Method, drawings, Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright, individual design tools, inspiration sources, Kaufmann House, Lebbeus Woods, Livius' Notes, spiral tower, spiral tower in Barcelona, Zaha Hadid on May 11, 2012 by eliinbar

In my previous posts I mentioned the need to develop individual design tools as an important part of the design process I call “Conscious Inspiration”.

Zaha Hadid’s sketches and drawings are a major and familiar tool Identified with her exclusive architecture.

In this post I will share with you Zaha Hadid’s Inspiration Sources for her unique sketches and drawings.

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I want to thank Livius

His blog “Livius’ Notes” was my inspiration for this post

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Here is an interesting and relevant quote from Livius blog :

“I’m not sure that the use of softwares is equally favorable to the brain.
My teaching experience is that students of Today have less imagination. We live in an age where you no longer need to imagine, because any image is immediately available by Internet. The images are no longer thought: they’re consumed”

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Zaha Hadid’s Sketch for the spiral tower in Barcelona

more information about the spiral tower

you can find in archdaily.com

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A typical Arabic-calligraphy

Note the similarity between the dominant curling line in the Arabic-calligraphy and Zaha Hadid’s sketch

It may not be coincidentally…. the spiral tower is designed in Barcelona Spain.

Considering Spain was ruled for – in some parts – up to 800 years by the Islamic Moors.

You are invited to visit a previous post of mine, dealing with Zaha Hadid‘s inspiration sources from the environment in which she plans.

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Another Master whose drawings have inspired generations of architects, Is Frank Lloyd Wright.

The following Image is Frank Lloyd Wright‘s perspective for one of his inspiring buildings, the Kaufmann House, Known as the “Falling water“.

Frank Lloyd Wright‘s

perspective for the Kaufmann House

“Falling water” 1936

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A typical Japanese Print

Do you feel the impact of the Japanese Print on Frank Lloyd Wright?

It seems like it enhances the Kaufmann House design.

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What did I learn from this post?

I want to be helped with quotations by Lebbeus Woods, published in an article written by Jack Self appearing in the June 2010 issue of the Architectural Review:

“Drawings are not preparations for construction—in most cases they are the project. The act of rendering is the making of a version of reality”

“If architects wish to avoid obsolescence, they must reverse the de-politicization of architecture by the dominance of the beautiful, but meaningless, render. As architects, our aspirations for reality must begin in our drawings.

In other words our drawings, have an important role (a powerful tool) in our design process….

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you are invited to visit my previous post examining Frank Gehry’s sketches….

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“Conscious Inspiration” the ultimate inspiration methodology

I invite you all to contribute in developing the attitude and tools towards the viability of the “Conscious Inspiration” Method.

The abundance of information in the Web affects us all, as I illustrate in my posts.

I believe that designing is a process formed from three main phases: knowledge, tools and invention.

“Knowledge”: as many said, and wrote before – Knowledge is the foundation for all designing process. We architects and designers are obliged to be informed about everything that was designed in the past and on a daily basis….

“Tools”: develop tools to analyze buildings and “Understand” them, tools that will cope with the abundance of architectural information… tools that encourage your planning process….tools matching your skills
and generating your creative process….

(You are invited to visit earlier posts of mine showing leading architects tools…. )

“Invention”: with the methodology of “conscious Inspiration” , we don’t need to be intimidated to get inspired from relevant buildings. Once we develop our tools, it will lead us to high quality and creative architecture.

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Spiral architecture & Conscious Inspiration

Posted in buildings, public buildings with tags BIG Architects, Conscious Inspiration, Danish Pavilion expo 2010, eliinbar Sketches 2011, Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum NY, Organic Design, Spiral Architecture, Spiral Minaret in Samarra, spiral shaped organic configuration, Zvi Hecker on March 14, 2011 by eliinbar

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Architect Zvi Hecker is one of the leading architects who have studied and planned Spiral architecture….:

Zvi Hecker’s quote: “A building is based on the precision of an idea on which variations are made. With the Spiral House, the idea itself is very simple; therefore the variations can be very complex”.

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Frank Lloyd Wrights’ Guggenheim Museum, I believe, is the most influential example of Spiral architecture in the 20th century.

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