Poetics of ArchitectureIntangible channels to creativity

Creativity???• The urge to be a doer

• Constant search for the unique• Search for improvement for something else.• Day and night preoccupation, mental and

physics for new ways of doing things and new ideas.

• Source of happiness for those who create

Metaphor

• Intangible metaphor• Tangible metaphor• Combined metaphor

Stockholm Public library (Asplund –human skull)

Nautical museum, Bremerhaven – Hans Scharoun

Nakagin tower - Kurokawa

Blood service building – Antoine Predock

APERTURE CENTER, New Mexico - Antoine Predock

An ancient weathered presence like bones you might find in the high desert.An exploration of different aspects of bone – from the cross sectional beauty of bone’s lattice structure to volumetric fragments.

Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery Skidmore College , New York- Antoine Predock

A stone ramp culminates in "one ivory tower", engaging earth and sky - beginning the journey of encounter.To articulate the fundamentally inseparable connection of art to human culture and consciousness.

American Heritage Center and Art Museum , Laramie - Antoine Predock

The appearance of this "archival" mountain can be thought of as parallel to the slow but certain geologic upheaval.

National Archive of Denmark - Antoine Predock

Conceived as a fortress of memory. Symbolizing the roots of the tree of knowledge These great masses or towers Express the monumental weight of this nation’s history.

The Las Vegas Central Library and Children’s Museum - Antoine Predock

built at the cultural heart of the city where temporary Paiute shelters and later permanent Anglo-American settlements were sited. Visitors experience the library and children’s museum as desert building and civic monument.

Rosenthal House, California - Antoine Predock

Both a container and an object of delight.Positioned in the right angle of a small triangular site, the house is X-shaped in plan with diagonal views to Malibu

Ronchamp – Le Corbusier

Library, University of Stockholm, Ralph Erskine

Metaphors – employed in literature and poetry – outdoor reading spaces

Price Residence, Bart PrinceThe Price Residence is a great example of organic architecture (organicism)

- free-flowing interior spaces- interlocking geometries- unique use of materials- very few orthogonal features- the Price’s wanted a feel of privacy as well asa connection with the ocean- windowless zones of rooms against adjoiningproperties

WHITING RESIDENCE – Bart Prince

A series of shingled roof forms sculpted to relate to nearby rolling hills.

Bart Prince’s studio & residence

Space ship???

Bubble house, France - Antti Lovag

Eliphante & Hippodome – Cornville, Arizona

Paradoxes• The presence of absence• The absence of presence• To construct is to de construct• To compose is to decompose• A city of life for the city of death

Metaphysics• Deals with unknown• Overall focus is the concepts of ‘infinity’ and ‘God’

The Upside-Down House – Szymbark, Poland

Crooked House – Sopot, Poland

Hundertwasser Haus – Vienna, Austria

An apartment complex characterized by patchwork paint, undulating floors, the incorporation of vegetation and a façade with seemingly no rhyme or reason to its structure.

Deconstructivism

• characterized by ideas of fragmentation, • an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's

surface or skin• non-rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and

dislocate some of the elements of architecture, such as structure and envelope.

• finished visual appearance - characterized by a stimulating unpredictability and a controlled chaos.

Wall House 2 – John Hejduk

Main feature of the whole project is a large wall/screen (14m high, 18.5m wide and 45cm deep) that separates the different areas of the house.

Dr Chau Chak Wing BuildingUniversity of technology Sydney, Australia - Gehry

“A cluster of “tree houses,” or vertical stacks of office floors with spatial “cracks” in between.

Bilbao museum - Gehry

BMW by Zaha Hadid

The Central Building is the nerve-centre of the whole factory complex with all the building's activities gathering and branching out again from here.

Guangzhou Opera House

The Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, China – Daniel Libeskind

Crystal City Centre – Daniel Libeskind

Denver Art museum extension - DL

Royal Ontario Museum – Daniel Libeskind

The Obscure

The Obscure

Obscure of the primordial

Obscure of the hibernating untouched

Highly personal, covered by layers of years, history, tradition, subconscious collective practices of people

Objective & physical characteristics - A source of inspiration for the creative process

Visual summary of components of the obscure

Newton's cenotaph• To isolate, to reinvent, the huge movement of time and celestial phenomena. •Along the top half of the sphere's edges, apertures in the stone allow light in, in pins, creating starlight when there is daylight.• During the night a huge and otherworldly light hangs, flooding the sphere, as sunlight.

During the day, the "night effect." During the night, day.'

Entree du cimmetiere

An architecture expressive of purpose, an approach his detractors termed

'architecture parlante' ('talking architecture').

Cénotaphe égyptien

Interior space is opened up to flow from one functional area to another rather than such areas being closed off in discrete separate 'rooms'.

Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht

Taj Mahal, India

Eric Mendelsohn’s sketches – buildings at night and day time

Einstein’s tower

Thanks giving chapel, Dallas

Expresses love for God

Poetry and literature

"Elpenorean architecture“ - Antonoides

Many STEPS and TERRACES, FOOD – WINE and LOVE…. Then, DEATH….

Alternative design proposals for the Demosthenes Stephanides senior citizens' center in Skyros

Compact/centralized/most economic solution ( an "institutional"approach)

Emphasis on "individuality" with centralized communal functions

Carry the "Street"atmosphere of the Greek island into the senior citizen facility

Introverted proposal with common facilities and private cells around an open patio.

Conceptual consulting Design for a Casino development by a Native American Tribe in Oklahoma on tribal land by Highway 66

The exotic and multicultural

New Museum of the Acropolis

Panhellenic competition entry,1978. (in collaboration with David Browning, Aaron Farmer and Daron Tapscott-for an Honor's fourth year Design studio at UTA)

Naoshima School

Studio Project