Late Modern Architecture - Critical comparision
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Late Modern Architecture
Bagsvaerd Church, Jorn UtzonChurch of Light, Tadao Ando
Late Modern Architecture
Toward the end of the Modern period, the international style experienced two notable trends.•One was more extensive use of curved walls•The other was brutalism: harsh, bulky concrete structures, often with unfinished surfaces.
These trends have been interpreted as the transitional phase to Postmodern architecture, as architects grew impatient with the severe simplicity of the international style.
An understanding
Late Modern Architecture
1989Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan
Tadao Ando
Less is more
Abstract nature
Timeless Quality
Rejects the surrounding metropolis
Critical Appreciation
Church of the Light
Section
Plan
1976Copenhagen, Denmark
Jorn Utzon
Critical Appreciation
Bagsvaerd church
Outside-InsideOutside-Inside
Concept
The Bagsværd Church was conceived by Utzon when he was lying on the beach in Hawaii, staring into the sky. He was awed by the regular passage of clouds above him, imagining it to be the ceiling of the new church.
The Vitruvian Man
•Cold appearance, unfriendly, uncommunicative
•Totalitarian
•Urban decay appearance
•Disregarding the social, historic, and architectural environment of its surroundings
The New Brutalism Ethic or Aesthetic?
1950s to mid 1970s
•Very linear, repetitive angular geometries
•Mostly predominance of Concrete Construction
•Rough blocky appearance
•Expression of materials and services in exterior
Socialist Utopian Ideology
•Idolization of the concrete walls•Structure as the ornamentation•Limited Budget
“…everything was eliminated except the unadorned structure,”
Tadao Ando
•Scaffolding planks employed for floor and benches•Finished with black oil stain
•Simple forms
http://yamadaarchiblog.blogspot.in
• Brutalist exterior and the curved ceiling in the interiors has been used together in the building by Jorn Utzon.
• Radical and new design.• No ornamentation• Repetitive blocks
• Brutalist exterior and the curved ceiling in the interiors has been used together in the building by Jorn Utzon.
• Radical and new design.• No ornamentation• Repetitive blocks
Late modern in Bagsvaerd
The breath-taking qualities of the ceiling immediately emulate a feeling of transcendence to heaven.
Distinct depart from Modern Architecture
Critical Regionalism
Tries to counter ‘placeless’ness and lack of identity in Modern Architecture
by using the geographical context of the building.
Not regionalist or vernacular architecture
Rather the same in the backdrop of hegemony of modernism and pastiche scenography of post modernism, both of which have failed to address the human condition due to their extreme stances towards historicism.
1980s
Defamiliarization
Emphasis should be on the tactile sense rather than the visual.Architecture suited to light and touch
Architecture suited to light
Striking similarity
Traditional Japanese
Shoji
Glass sliding screen and
gateway to the room
Connect to nature
Zen gardenThe traditional tea house
Japanese musicZen Buddhist Temples
Haiku poetry
Critical Regionalism
In context
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The exterior is constructed following the universal technique of rational, modular, economic, prefabricated concrete, versus the interior that expresses the culture of the region with a specifically designed, organic, reinforced concrete shell that manipulates the Scandinavian sky and has multiple cross-cultural references.
Critical Regionalism
In context
Continued…
• What is present in Bagsvaerd Church is the juxtaposition of the interior and the exterior and it’s relationship to the female and male.
• “Sharp angled male architecture in contrast to the sensuous”
• Due to its spiritual nature, the interior space in the church, sacristy and chapel, these spaces emit a sense of calm and peacefulness while the exterior exudes a feeling of security and protection.
Nordic concrete Architecture is:
- Architecture where concrete is used as a dominating and visible material and/or-Architecture where concrete is expressed through the geometry.
In Bagsvaerd Church, the roof structure in concrete shows some of the possibilities to show the plasticity of the concrete.
www.nordicinnovation.org
Is Tadao Ando a Critical Regionalist?
In question
•How does he address regionalism?•Mere constructions?•Evocative domestic elements?
•Revitalizing the Japanese feelings•Interplay of light, materials and details
•Ando is clearly regional. But is he critical?
•Isn’t ‘Critical Regionalism’ in itself an oxymoron?•Can a place be regional yet not associate itself with nostalgia?
• ‘Concrete Regionalist’ ?
Concrete Resistance: Ando in the context of critical regionalism ; Xianghua Wu
The Architect: Jorn Utzon •Nature is architecture’s best teacher
•“The Innermost Being of Architecture”
•Additive Architecture
•Modest to monumental
•Nordic Sensibility
•Influenced by the architecture of the ancient Mayan civilisation, as well as the Islamic world, China and Japan.
The Architecture of Jorn Utzon. Kenneth Frampton, Pritzker Prize 2003 Speech
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Additive Architecture is an approach by Jorn Utzon to describe his development of architectural projects on the basis of growth patterns in nature.
Additive Architecture
Additive Architecture
Additive Architecture in Bagsvaerd Church
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