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😁 Hello everyone welcome to History & Theory Tuesdays🏛🏛
Every Tuesday we will be posting facinating architectural pieces🕍 from Our country 🇪🇹and all over the world 🌎🌍🌏⛩⛩with detailed expalnations of the theories behind👌🏽.
Every Tuesday we will be posting facinating architectural pieces🕍 from Our country 🇪🇹and all over the world 🌎🌍🌏⛩⛩with detailed expalnations of the theories behind👌🏽.
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For this week we have brought you 2 amazing projects. The first project that we are going to cover is our very own Kennedy Library and the second project is a UNESCO registered world heritage town of Hakka From Fujian province, China.............get ready for a stroll on the path of time and history........🌖🌗🌘🌑
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😁 Hello everyone welcome to biography Wednesdays 💥💥💥💥💥
Every Wednesday we will be posting Biographies and works of famous avant garde architects and artists 🎓🎓from all over the world 🌎🌍🌏with detailed explanations of their intent and personal philosophies .⚡️⚡️
Every Wednesday we will be posting Biographies and works of famous avant garde architects and artists 🎓🎓from all over the world 🌎🌍🌏with detailed explanations of their intent and personal philosophies .⚡️⚡️
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Our today's selectee is non other than the legend himself 📣📣📣📣📣 Tado Ando🎩🇯🇵🎌
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TADAO ANDO🎌
Tadao Ando is a self-thought architect born in 1941 in Osaka Japan. From age 10-17 he worked at local carpenter, where he learned how to work with wood and built a number of models of airplanes and ships.
He always preferred learning things on his own outside class. He was studying architecture by seeing actual building, and reading books about them.
His first interest in architecture was norished at the age of 15 after buying a book of Le Corbusier sketches.
He took a number of visits to US, Europe & Africa in the period b/n 1962-69 and founded Tadao Ando Architectural and Associates in Osaka in 1969. He has designed many notable buildings which earned him many Awards in Architecture.
Tadao Ando is a self-thought architect born in 1941 in Osaka Japan. From age 10-17 he worked at local carpenter, where he learned how to work with wood and built a number of models of airplanes and ships.
He always preferred learning things on his own outside class. He was studying architecture by seeing actual building, and reading books about them.
His first interest in architecture was norished at the age of 15 after buying a book of Le Corbusier sketches.
He took a number of visits to US, Europe & Africa in the period b/n 1962-69 and founded Tadao Ando Architectural and Associates in Osaka in 1969. He has designed many notable buildings which earned him many Awards in Architecture.
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Tadao's architectural approach
▪ Emphasizing nothingness and empty space to represent the beauty of simplicity
▪ Emphasizing the concept of sensation & physical experiances, mainly influenced by Japanese architecture
▪ Use of active natural elements like sun, rain and wind
▪ large expenses of architectural concrete walls combined with wooden or stone floors and large windows providing a sense of cleaness and weightless at the same time
▪ Emphasizing nothingness and empty space to represent the beauty of simplicity
▪ Emphasizing the concept of sensation & physical experiances, mainly influenced by Japanese architecture
▪ Use of active natural elements like sun, rain and wind
▪ large expenses of architectural concrete walls combined with wooden or stone floors and large windows providing a sense of cleaness and weightless at the same time
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PROJECTS
▪ One of his first project was Rokko Housing ( 1981- 83). This complex is wedged into a restricted site on a south-facing 60 degrees slope. some years later he designed a second housing complex adjacent to the first one which includes 50 dwellings, designed on a 5.2m square grid. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
▪ One of his first project was Rokko Housing ( 1981- 83). This complex is wedged into a restricted site on a south-facing 60 degrees slope. some years later he designed a second housing complex adjacent to the first one which includes 50 dwellings, designed on a 5.2m square grid. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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▪ Another remarkable work of Tadao was , The church of Light (Baraki, Osaka, 1988-89) located in a residential suburb. It consists from a rectangular concrete box crossed at 15 degrees angle by freestanding wall. The bisecting wall obliges a visitor to turn to enter the chapel.