Thursday, January 28, 2010
Provocation 4
Identify the three most inspirational architects for you and write (for each) a single sentence of exactly 20 tightly articulated words, in prose, characterizing your interpretation of the essence of their work. The names of the architects must NOT appear in the sentence, and no project names can be included. Make every word count.
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STEVEN HOLL :
ReplyDeleteOne who sculpts the essence of space by pondering arrangements of light within pigmented strokes. A renaissance of imaginative potential
RENZO PIANO :
Building, Lighting, Learning. A man who understands the essence and complexity of elevated shelter. One to re articulate the roof.
LOUIS KAHN :
Truthful architecture expression concealed by creation and intent. Evolving international style in pursuit of formal perfection of the built environment.
LUIS BARRAGÁN :
ReplyDeleteArchitecture expressed through elegant simplicity and meaningful arrangement. Beauty is achieved in careful juxtaposition, inspiring moments, bold color and light.
RALPH RAPSON :
Designs evolve from imagined occupation. An order derived from the human experience. Straightforward gestures speak to the meaning of architecture.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER :
Efficiency and rationale guide the creation of space. Beauty is invented. Limitless and imaginative foundations for an evolving art form.
LUIS BARRAGAN
ReplyDeleteColored walls of sculpted light following straight lines meeting water, facing slate… arousing attention through unbounded surfaces to an exterior scene.
PAULA LAPORTE
Obliviously living in sick buildings multi-sensitive for years, she researched, drew, experimented and built, reinventing houses that breath and protect.
ALEJANDRA CABALLERO
Between the Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatepetl, she collaborates with communities to heal the ecosystem, ceasing erosion, erecting bioclimatic delights to dwell.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
ReplyDeleteLost in the fluidity of space, captured by the complexity of materials, architecture provides a sense of order and geometry.
Ando Taodo
The presence of concrete is heavy yet feeling light and airy; serenity is found in the simplicity of the form.
Steven Holl
He explores architectural spaces and lights using simple strokes of watercolor and gestures of sculpture, in responding to cultural context.
Alvaro Siza
ReplyDeleteDeceptive simplicity and transformed language becomes a tool for sensitizing you to your environment.
Luis Barragan
“Emotional architecture,” stripped down to its most fundamental features and limited palette of materials to create meditation and quietude.
Tadao Ando
A dialogue with the past but filtered through ones own understanding to create simple but complex architecture.
ZACHO REVISED
ReplyDeleteAlvar Aalto
Modernism blends traditional Scandinavian architecture to sculpt light and form into an environment responding to the psychological needs of society.
Frank Gehry
Forethought flowing gestures express meaning articulated through form animating structures carved and twisted leaving functional elements to arduously adapt within.
Le Corbusier
Visionary modernist utilizes an industrial pallet from war to introduce and manufacture open floor machines designed to aid life functions.
PETER ZUMTHOR
ReplyDeleteStands in silence, inseparable from the ground, unearth material’s unique quality to generate rich atmosphere not reveal until experience personally.
TADAO ANDO
Careful control of procession, a simple gesture turns into complex spatial relations that uses light to sculpt space of the timelessness.
SANTIAGO CALATRAVA
Exploration of architectural openness and energy in the logic of humanistic structural system that unites form and structure into one.
RALPH RAPSON
ReplyDeleteArticulated, disciplined, simple forms based on modernist principles. Spaces created and configured with a thoughtful approach rooted in human interaction.
LUIS BARRAGAN
Transcends minimalist design into powerful, serene moments by masterfully sculpting light and superimposing beautiful, solitary colors onto a simple form.
EERO SAARINEN
Master of creating architectural space through engineering feats. Thin concrete formed by catenary curves drove designs of large, voluminous spaces.
Frank Gehry:
ReplyDeleteMixed of hi-tech and whimsy, his iconic designs provide dramatic cinematic visual effects beautifully while fulfill their functional usage practically.
Zaha Hadid:
Create buildings by powerful curving forms with multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life.
Will Bruder:
Turns the ordinary into extraordinary, making architecture a simple beautiful sculpture out of complex functional structure mingled naturally with environment.
Steven Holl
ReplyDeleteProfound are the articulations that redefine how sunlight can embrace a wall, exploring its tactile surface from dawn till dusk.
Renzo Piano
Nature meets machine as the pragmatics of our craft become emboldened by poetic vision, exuding an intrinsic connection to site.
Richard Meier
Blank are your canvases, Spartan is your palette, natural beauty is made ethereal by its juxtaposition to your stark forms.
-I think the last one came out as a personal statement posed directly at Richard, we've had a long relationship.
Toyo Ito
ReplyDeleteThe skill in his handling of light and other forms of media are conceptualized in innovative and original designs
Santiago Calatrava
The maximization of architecture and engineering are reflected in the legacy of their sculptural structures.
Zaha Hadid
Her proposal, based on experimentation with geometry and basic forms has marked a new concept in the appreciation of architecture.
Frank Lloyd Wright:
ReplyDeleteOrganic forms luminated through the suttle precision of detail enriching materiality, carving sculpturally though the continuity of the angelic context.
Tadao Ando:
Fearless relevance burnished simplistically through unearthly innovative materiality that carve into the textural pallet of nature’s landscape with compassionate intent.
Louis Kahn:
Phenomenal harmonious representation of resplendent sensibility and alluring perceptional quality through use of inspirational tactile material munipulations of abstracted articulation.
Tadao Ando
ReplyDeleteWith Japanese aesthetic he reveals many qualities of light, calms with water, and honors the beauty and diversity of concrete.
Carlo Scarpa
Genius at intentional views with every physical detail immaculately fabricated by master craftsmen; layers of thought drawn atop each other.
Samuel Mockbee
Taught a new generation to build for underprivileged populations while honoring function, local flavor, and site, and utilizing recycled materials.
Scarpa
ReplyDeletecommitted to the sensitivities of time, place and being with deep rooted sensuous relationship of material deriving form and function.
Koolhaas
celebratory architecture that does not speak to the people but of the people, social illumination for all willing to pay.
Menefee and Clark
reverence and security of site and ground as it touches the built environment place where vernacular meets landscape to assimilate
REM KOOLHAAS
ReplyDeleteThe development of architecture cannot keep up with public opinion so the construct has to be malleable to remain contemporaneous.
DANIEL LIBESKIND
Inspired by music and art, the work overflows with richness often missed due to the dominant nature of the forms.
WALTER GROPIUS
Designs based on “a new architecture” found beauty in truth of material and forms and turned away from superfluous decoration.