Jewish Museum Berlin by Daniel Libeskind

 

Where are you from?

Find an image (or short movie clip) showing a valley in your county of origin -

any valley, from anywhere within your "country of origin":
... this may be where you were born, where you grew up, or where you love, but most importantly - where you identify with, a place that will inspire your architecture.

Wellington New Zealand - where I'm from

Gaudi + Coop Himmelb(l)au

 

 

EXP 2 Concepts for two architects

Antoni Gaudi

1. Imagination confined within the rules.
2. Regular shapes projected in an irregular way.
3. An artist must obey creation. Reconcile architecture and nature. Write a story about the land.
4. A transcendental form which arouses faith, belief and hope.
5. Gaudi's emotional treatment of material and structure give expression to natural forms in architecture.
6. "spatial uncertainty, concept of structures with limitless space; its feeling of sequence, fragmented with holes and partitions, which create a divide without disrupting the feeling of openspace by enclosing it with barriers"


Coop Himmelb(l)au

1. Surreal curvature of construction exceeding the boundaries of expectation.
2. Basic shapes tilted and slanted within the landscape so that it appears to defy the laws of physics.
3. Embrace of imbalance, distortion, fragmentation and chaos.
4. Structures are not fixed realities but shells for intervention.
5. Extolled the virtues of an architecture: "that bleeds, exhaust that turns or even breaks."

6. "Plenum (a space completely filled with matter). Places of Power"
7. "reflects and gives a mirror image of variety and vivaeilty, tension and complexity of our cities"
8. "architecture of clouds"

Antoni Gaudi

Co-op Himmelb(l)au