important buildings of the last 21 years (pdf)
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O F T H E L A S T 2 1 Y E A R S
( 2 0 1 2 - 1 9 9 2 )
A p e r s o n a l s e l e c t i o n
b y s t u d e n t s w i t h
R a p h a e l Z u b e r
I M P O R T A N T
B U I L D I N G S
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An architect is both a
thinker and a maker. The
maker puts together into
harmony a series of signs,
for translating thoughts
into the perspective we
have of reality. Far before
that, the thinker forms
his own speculations by
understanding, sizing and
interpreting the world he has
experienced.
Students tested their own
architectural awareness by
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choosing, in an analytical
process, the one project or
building they personally
consider to be the most
important built within a time
frame of one specific year.
Students were free to propose
any building in any country,
be it known or unknown, with
no restrictions: the only
condition was to present
buildings whose power is
based in pure architectural
thinking beyond any other
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kind of relevance or
impressiveness.
The goal of this documentary
is to share not only a
selected view on the state
of the actual architectural
production from all around
the globe but also very
personal statements from
future architects.
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Why do you like it?
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2012 1. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, UK; Herzog & de Meuron
2. Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, USA; Morphosis
3. CAEaCLAVELES Hotel, La Perada, Spain; Longo + Roldán Arquitectos
2011 1. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, UK; Peter Zumthor
2. Invastigation Center of Furnas, Sau Miguel Island; Aires Mateus
3. Meme Meadows Experimental House, Hokkaido, Japan; Kengo Kuma
2010 1. Teshima Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan; Ryue Nishizawa
2. Plantahof Auditorium, Landquart, Switzerland; Valerio Olgiati
3. Nerima Apartment, Tokyo, Japan; Go Hasegawa & Associates
2009 1. Vacation House, Vals, Switzerland; Peter Zumthor
2. Insel Hombroich Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany; Àlvaro Siza Vieira
3. Leutschenbach School, Zürich, Switzerland; Christian Kerez
2008 1. CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, China; OMA
2. Ibere Camargo Museum, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Álvaro Siza Vieira
3. Final Wooden House, Kumamoto, Japan; Sou Fujimoto
2007 1. Bruder Klaus Field Chapel, Mechernich, Germany; Peter Zumthor
2. House for a Musician, Scharans, Switzerland; Valerio Olgiati
3. Palmyra House, Nandgaon, India; Studio Mumbai
2006 1. Church Saint-Pierre, Firminy, France; Le Corbusier and José Oubrerie
2. Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Rem Koolhaas with Cecil Balmond and Arup
3. Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Hokkaido, Japan; Sou Fujimoto
2005 1. Vodka Ceremony Pavilion, Moscow Region, Russia; Alexander Brodsky
2. Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal; OMA
3. Hohlstrasse Apartments, Zürich, Switzerland; Peter Märkli
2004 1. 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa, Japan; SANAA
2. Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan; Tadao Ando
3. Seattle Central Library, Seattle, USA; OMA
2003 1. An Turas, Tiree, Scotland; Sutherland Hussey Architects
2. Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science, Niigata, Japan; Tezuka Architects
3. Gormley Studio, London, UK; David Chipperfield Architects
2002 1. Helvetia Headquarters, St.Gallen, Switzerland; Herzog & de Meuron
2. Casa Grossi-Giordano, Monte Carasso, Switzerland; Guidotti Architetti
3. House in Corrubedo, Corrubedo, Spain; David Chipperfield
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2001 1. Casa em Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paolo, Brasil; Angelo Bucci
2. Wohnhaus Meuli, Fläsch, Switzerland; Bearth & Deplazes
3. Red House for Anish Kapoor, London, UK; Tony Fretton
2000 1. Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan; Toyo Ito
2. Tate Modern, London, UK, Herzog & de Meuron
3. Naked House, Kawagoe, Japan; Shigeru Ban
1999 1. Observation platform of Firefly squid, Toyama, Japan; Tom Heneghan
2. Makino Tomitarou Memorial Hall, Kouchi, Japan; Hiroshi Naito
3. Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal; Àlvaro Siza Vieira
1998 1. Silo Norte Shopping, Porto, Portugal; Eduardo Souto de Moura
2. Schoolhouse Paspels, Paspels, Switzerland; Valerio Olgiati
3. Maryland Overlook Location, Washington, USA; Allied Architects
1997 1. Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria; Peter Zumthor
2. Weekend House, Gunma, Japan; Ryue Nishizawa
3. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain; Frank Gehry
1996 1. Haus, Köln, Germany; Oswald Mathias Ungers
2. Santa Maria Church, Marco de Canaveses, Portugal; Àlvaro Siza Vieira
3. Elsa Peretti Museum, Girona, Spain; Alberto Campo Baeza
1995 1. Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, Sao Paulo, Brasil; Paulo Mendes da Rocha
2. Main Postal Office, Locarno, Switzerland; Livio Vacchini
3. Casa Aurora, Lugano, Switzerland; Livio Vacchini
1994 1. Igualada Cemetery, Barcelona, Spain; Enric Miralles & Carme Pinós
2. Casa Vieira de Castro, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal; Àlvaro Siza Vieira
3. Osaka Prefectural Chikatsu Asuka Museum, Osaka, Japan; Tadao Ando
1993 1. Inner Shrine of Ise (61st), Ise, Japan; Unknown
2. Carré d` Art, Nîmes, France; Norman Foster
3. Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA; Steven Holl
1992 1. La Congiunta, Giornico, Switzerland; Peter Märkli
2. Oberrealta Chapel, Oberrealta, Switzerland; Christian Kerez / Rudolf Fontana
3. Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; OMA
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2012
1. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, UK; Herzog & de Meuron
By representing an incursion in the past, metaphorically looking
through a mysterious round magnifying glass, the plastic configuration
of the plan unveils the traces of all pavilions previously built at
the Serpentine Gallery. Reconstructed in cork, the extrusion of these
`remains` resembles an archaeological site, which holds the memory of the
place. It is a gathering spot of intimate moments.
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2. Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, USA; Morphosis
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2012
3. CAEaCLAVELES Residence + Hotel, Llanes, Spain; Longo + Roldan Architects
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2011
1. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, UK; Peter Zumthor
Hot, intolerable. But not here. Here we breathe again. I rest, the
stone is cool.
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2011
2. Investigation Center, Furnas, Portugal; Aires Mateus
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2011
3. Experimental House, Hokkaido, Japan; Kengo Kuma
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2010
1. Teshima Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan; Ryue Nishizawa
Light, rain, fresh air and sound pass through the two large voids of
this architecture, symbolically formed as if a water-drop. Therefore
this building cannot have any pillars. Only the 25cm-thick concrete
shell creates the space, in harmony with the environment around it.
Pilin Hongwittayakorn
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2. Plantahof Auditorium, Landquart, Switzerland; Valerio Olgiati
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3. Nerima Apartments, Tokyo, Japan; Go Hasegawa
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2009
1. Vacation House, Vals, Switzerland; Peter Zumthor
Surrounded by a powerful landscape, this house built out of wood
provides a warm shelter protectin us from the rough and cold
environment. From inside the house opens in framed views to the world
outside, suggesting an idyllic view of the Alps. The cross-shaped plan
allows us to look into every direction while moving in the house.
Filipe Calvão
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2. Insel Hombroich Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany; Álvaro Siza Vieira
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3. Leutschenbach School, Zürich, Switzerland; Christian Kerez
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2008
1. CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, China; OMA
The CCTV Headquarters works as an icon of the city of Beijing over any
other function. The huge scale and radical loop-shape are important
in the image and character of the city.
The complex structure is readable on the façade of the building.
Working as a web, it ties the building in a very rational way. It
becomes denser in areas where the stress is stronger and more open in
areas requiring less support.
Pedro Oliveira
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2. Ibere Camargo Museum, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Álvaro Siza Vieira
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3. Final Wooden House, Kumamoto, Japan; Sou Fujimoto
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2007
1. Bruder Klaus Chapel, Mechernich, Germany; Peter Zumthor
This building unifies the four basic elements (water, fire, earth and
air) in one single man-made object. Clear geometry and coincidence,
light and dark, natural and artificial, modern and traditional
coexist and create contrasts of a poetic power. The architect has
given existence to a building, which is just itself.
Francesca Zecca
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2. House for a Musician, Scharans, Switzerland; Valerio Olgiati
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3. Palmyra House, Nandgaon, India. Studio Mumbai
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2006
1. Saint-Pierre Church, Firminy, France; Le Corbusier and José
Oubrerie
This is the last masterpiece of Le Corbusier. Designed in 1970, it
was only completed by a collaborator in 2006, long after his master’s
death. It is a church, a central infrastructure in the model village
of Firminy-Vert.
The building is built mainly out of concrete. In plan it starts as
a square in the basement and finishes at the top in a circle. It
searches for the sky, a metaphor for our interior transformation.
Le Corbusier wanted to establish an environment for spiritual
enrichment on a modest scale, in a building that seems like a perfect
machine from the outside and as a dream on the inside.
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2. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, UK; Rem Koolhaas with Cecil Balmond and Arup
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3. Children` s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Hokkaido, Japan; Sou Fujimoto
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2005
1. Vodka Ceremony Pavilion, Moscow Region, Russia; Alexander
Brodsky
Vodka Ceremony Pavilion is a tiny structure that has one of the
greatest messages that exist. By the simplest gesture of taking the
windows of demolished buildings and putting them together to form a
shelter, it emphasises on the meaning of ceremony, of meeting between
two individuals.
It’s like a circle drawn in the sand to accentuate the fact that
inside there is going to happen something exceptional for human
beings. It gives us the wider notion of order, which is not reduced
only to space or composition, but touches the mystery of life itself
Mateusz Zaluska
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2. Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal; OMA
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3. Hohlstrasse Apartments, Zürich, Switzerland; Peter Märkli
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2004
1. 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa, Japan; SANAA
The various sizes of exhibition spaces organized in a circle
building have similar qualities to the surrounding buildings in
the city. The circle geometry leads people into the building from
all directions. The micro city is inside a circular frame but still
gives the feeling of a boundless space.
Takaaki Murakami
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2. Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan; Tadao Ando
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3. Seattle Central Library, Seattle, USA; OMA
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2003
1. An Turas, Tiree, Scotland; Sutherland Hussey Architects
This `shelter` is an elegant line in the landscape, which takes apart
and recomposes the island’s vernacular architecture. Walking through
the single physical space one can experience three completely
different - if not opposed - spatial sensations. A short walk
becomes a journey.
Francesca Leibowitz
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2003
2. Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science , Niiagata, Japan; Tezuka Architects
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3. Gormley Studio, London, UK; David Chipperfield
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2002
1. Helvetia Headquarters, St Gallen, Switzerland; Herzog & de Meuron
Simple but yet complex, this building has a very basic geometry
and a clear and efficient circulation system. The skin makes it
different. Using a series of repetitive modules, the architects
create a facade that decomposes the site, the context, the
surroundings. Each glass of the window reflects the scenes of the
site in a different way, creating different images like paintings
on a wall. This effect is emphasised by the beautiful `savage` garden
around the building. The similarity with the neighbourhood but
at the same time the difference and distance to it creates an
ambivalent and fascinating relationship.
Sun Meifeng
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2. Grossi-Giordano House, Monte Carasso, Switzerland; Guidotti Architetti
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Project:House in CorrubedoLocation:Corrubedo,Acoruna,Calicia, SpainProgram: Private HouseArchitect:David Chipperfield
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3. House in Corrubedo, La Coruna, Spain; David Chipperfield
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2001
1. Casa en Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paolo, Brasil; Angelo Bucci
Raised upon four pillars the house breaks out of the plot’s limits
and seems to hover above the garden with its swimming pool. The
fully glazed facades, together with the open floor plan, create a
spatial continuity so that the outside almost becomes one with the
inside. One of the four concrete beams in the upper slab crosses
the courtyard asymmetrically and supports the water tank, necessary
for life. At the same time, it keeps the structure of the house in
balance.
Christiane Mueller
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2. Wohnhaus Meuli, Fläsch, Switzerland; Bearth & Deplazes
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3. Red House for Anish Kapoor, London, UK; Tony Fretton
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2000
1. Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan; Toyo Ito
The Sendai Mediatheque is the results of an intention to design a
transparent cultural media centre, supported by a unique structural
system, while allowing complete visibility and transparency to the
surrounding community.
The building is both complex and flexible. The slabs seem to float
on top of one another, supported only by thirteen columns, which
are deconstructed into many smaller ones and never appear to be
vertical. This striking visual impression brings to mind large
trees in a forest, carrying huge concrete slabs. This structural
fragility paired with a metaphorical closeness to nature, in a
multifunctional, public and urban building, could be called poetic.
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2. Tate Modern, London, UK; Herzog & de Meuron
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3. Naked House, Kagawoe, Japan; Shigeru Ban
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1999
1. Observation platform of Firefly squid, Toyama, Japan; Tom
Heneghan
With a minimum of elements a common popular situation is dramatically
changed into a very specific and unique experience. This platform
shows a pure figure of architecture. The sensitive design, even very
small, can touch a person’s heart.
Ami Ishihara
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2. Makino Tomitarou Memorial Hall, Kouchi, Japan; Hiroshi Naito
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1999
3. Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal; Álvaro Siza Vieira
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1998
1. Silo Norte Shopping, Porto, Portugal; Eduardo Souto de Moura
Silo Norteshopping is a cylindrical space of 12m diameter by 20m
tall, created by the void of a spiral parking ramp attached to a
shopping centre. It encloses, on two floors, a small gallery and an
auditorium. The access from the noisy shopping centre leads over the
outer car-ramp. This uncomfortable need makes the most important
characteristic of the space even stronger: its silent atmosphere.
The natural light coming from above, as well as the height of the
space and the monotonous rhythm of the bricks, create an enclosed and
concentrated space in extreme contrast to its surroundings.
Gil Machado
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1998
2. Schoolhouse Paspels, Paspels, Switzerland; Valerio Olgiati
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1998
3. Maryland Overlook Location, Washington, USA; Allied Architects
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1997
1. Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria; Peter Zumthor
This building is important due it’s consistent and impressive
materiality. Clad in frosted glass and peculiar at a glance, it also
melts into the scenery by reflecting its surroundings softly. Aspects
of the internal spaces are in constant change. Sometimes these are
not quite perceivable, sometimes radically so - always depending on
the environmental conditions..
Yusuke Koyama
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1997
2. Weekend House, Gunma, Japan; Ryue Nishizawa
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3. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain; Frank Gehry
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1996
1. Haus, Köln, Germany; Oswald Mathias Ungers
A house which exists as a distillation of everything domestic. The
architect has purified the experience of the room: each one is a
distinct entity with definite limits. To experience beyond the room
one must engage physically with two mechanisms. To inhabit this house
requires very deliberate thought. The dimension of the door is used as
a generator for the whole geometric system. Poché is situated between
inside and outside and between the rooms themselves, and in which is
suppressed all the lesser elements. The façade is pure, with 8 equally
sized windows, the horizontal and vertical distances between them
consistent. In its essence it is very close to Mies van der Rohe, but
also draws on the central European Villas of Loos and Wittgenstein.
This is a very beautiful work full of intellect, order and control.
One can appreciate the architect’s endeavour - we sense not a single
item could be added or taken away, nor a single wall moved, not
even slightly. It is the work of a student of the highest order of
architecture.
Rory Corr
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1996
2. Santa Maria Church, Marco de Canaveses, Portugal; Álvaro Siza Vieira
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3. Elsa Peretti Museum, Girona, Spain; Alberto Campo Baeza
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1995
1. Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Paulo Mendes
da Rocha
The functional programme of the building is organized almost entirely
underground so as to reorganize the topography of the site and to
create walk-able horizontal planes at different levels: an open air
theatre and gardens. A concrete beam spanning 60 meters draws a shadow
orthogonal to the platforms, covering the stage and the entrance.
The building has no fixed façade, but a public space putting in
relationship the art collection with the city around it.
The positive, encouraging effect that good architecture
always has on us is something that is included
in the form itself, but that belongs more than to the
form itself, to the relationships that the form establishes
through its presence. Giorgio Grassi
Guido Porta
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1995
2. Main Postal Office, Locarno, Switzerland; Livio Vacchini
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1995
3. Casa Aurora, Lugano, Switzerland; Livio Vacchini
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1994
1. Igualada Cemetery, Barcelona, Spain; Enric Miralles & Carme
Pinós
Two concrete walls lead people to an inclined square. From here a
sloping street, flanked by tombs, leads to another space with the
geometry of an oval in plan. Another, almost horizontal path leads to
a meditation room and a staircase continues down to the oval. Under
the last few steps of the staircase there is an empty space: the final
step floating above the ground.
This oval space is the culmination of the sequence. With its natural
stone walls reinforced with exposed, rusted steel, it forms a space of
rough emotion.
Yuda Zheng
10m
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1994
2. Casa Vieira de Castro, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal; Álvaro Siza Vieira
10m
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1994
3. Osaka Prefectural Chikatsu Asuka Museum, Osaka, Japan; Tadao Ando
10m
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1993
1. Inner Shrine of Ise (61st), Ise, Japan; Unknown
This building is a unique system that has been continued since late in
the 7th century AD. It is called Shikinen Sengu. The main building of
Inner Shrine, the sanctuary for kami of Shinto, is reconstructed every
twenty years. A physically new building, exactly the same form, is
located next to the old building.
The forest around is cultivated to exclusively supply all the timber for
the reconstruction of the sanctuaries since the time of the Shikinen
Sengu. Once the old shrine is recycled or removed to another place, the
new one, as an idea (or an ideal), is now the original.
This continuous cycle is a keeper of not only the most ancient and pure
style of religious architecture, but also of thought. In this sense
Ise Shrine is an important building of which we in today’s world can be
deeply proud.
Shimpei Kasai
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1993
2. Carré d` Art, Nîmes, France; Norman Foster
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Carré d'Art / plan
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3. Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA; Steven Holl
6m 0
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1992
1. La Congiunta, Giornico, Switzerland; Peter Märkli
This building is composed of three main rooms of the same width. The
entrance room is shorter, the next two: identical in plan, with different
heights. Attached to the last room are four identical smaller spaces with
the character of cells.
The construction is extremely pure - rough but precise. All the walls are
reinforced concrete without any insulation, the roof structure consists
of exposed steel beams. The pattern of the joints of the framework is
worked differently in each space and gives the building the appearance of
a genuine, monolithic sculpture standing in this rough landscape.
The building is a precisely composed sculpture wherein all the parts seem
to refer to a superior order.
Marco Vargas
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1992
2. Oberrealta Chapel, Oberrealta, Switzerland; Christian Kerez and Rudolf Fontana
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3. Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; OMA
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This documentation is the result of a workshop under the direction
of Raphael Zuber at the P O R T O A C A D E M Y 2 0 1 3 ,
20.07.2013 - 27.07.2013, Porto, Portugal.
Workshop concept: Filipe Magalhães, Takaaki Murakami, Raphael Zuber
Editors: Filipe Magalhães, Raphael Zuber
Concept and design: Filipe Magalhães, Takaaki Murakami, Raphael Zuber
Photographs p. 96/97: Filipe Magalhães
Drawings and texts: Francisco Amoeda Pinto (amoedopinto.francisco@
gmail.com), Filipe Calvão ([email protected]), Rory Corr
([email protected] ), Edoardo Cresci ([email protected]),
Pilin Hongwittayakorn ([email protected]), Ami Ishihara (iamami011@
gmail.com), Olivia Joikits ([email protected]), Shimpei Kasai
([email protected]), Yusuke Koyama ([email protected]),
Francesca Leibowitz ([email protected]), Gil Machado (pereira.
[email protected]), Sun Meifeng ([email protected]), Christiane
Mueller ([email protected]), Takaaki Murakami (takaaki.
[email protected]), Liliana Nóbrega ([email protected]), Guido
Porta ([email protected]), Oliveira Pedro ([email protected]),
Marco Vargas ([email protected]), Mateusz Zaluska ([email protected]),
Francesca Zecca ([email protected]), Yuda Zheng (zhengyuda1991@
gmail.com)
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©2013, Raphael Zuber
©Texts: by the authors
Every reasonable attempt has been made by the authors and by the editor
to identify owners of copyrights. Errors or omissions will be corrected
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