ARC131H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sou Fujimoto, Big Crunch, William Van Alen
Document Summary
Rotor, belgian pavilion: attract elements from old buildings and put them in. Ironic of reusing something that is green to begin with. Fountain house: reused material, this approach is on the border of art and architecture. Sou fujimoto: gehry like building made out of pringles on left. Corridor house: something that is the size of an american corridor. Element house: prototype of house that represents many metabolist houses. The other architect: show in montreal, nothing exists in isolation. Their attitude re ects an approach of not making large impressive buildings but work closely together for experimentation. 5468796 archs: metabolist like units, always make housing, migrating landscapes, social awareness for environment. The avenue: attempt to connect public and private spaces. Typical for this o ce from shilan: concrete but not swiss or japanese perfection in concrete. Casa gago: make with conc core surrounded by a large number of steps and wooden oors.
