#exposedstructure

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Rooted in Brutalism

Church St Willibald (1965-66) in Neumarkt-Woffenbach, Germany, by Franz Xaver Gärtner

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Always on the go📍King’s Cross Station, London EXPOSED STRUCTURE

[holagabicha]

"by colonnades of slender concrete columns [and] faced with tens of thousands of split-faced Cipollino marble tiles, all individually hand set." 1965 #lacma #architecture #williampereira #marble #columns #exposedstructure #blue #sky #california #beam (en LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

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Destruction as a pose to the beautiful cherry blossom tree in front ... I guess we all get a bit reckless at times #cherryblossoms #contrast #structure #exposedstructures #photography

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Brutalistically Postmodern

Casa Aurora, Aldo Rossi + Gianni Braghieri, 1984 - 1987, Torino, IT

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11/2022

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Photo: Miroslav Pazdera

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Kazuo Shinohara: Umbrella house, Nerima, Tokyo: 1959-61

Area: 55sqm

“This house is the smallest I have ever had the occasion to design. While I was working on it, I was also producing House in Chigasaki, one of the largest houses I have ever built. At Chigasaki, I had begun to elaborate the idea of ‘wasteful space’ (for Kazuo Shinohara this concept has the meaning of ‘extra’ space or ‘luxury’ space, as opposed to the Existenzumimium of the 1930s) as a basic tenet. Yet now in such a small house, it would have been paradoxical to develop ‘wasteful space’ as a primary theme. I thought, instead, that ‘wasteful space’ might be signified in a small house by emphasizing inherent emptiness as an ‘insufficient space’. To put it more simply, I thought, the expression of ‘wasteful space’, even in a small house, could somehow be achieved through a radical simplification of its dwelling functions.

To oversee this small house, I often had to commute to the building sit in the suburbs of Tokyo.  In the cold winter the road to the site seemed very long. I wondered about the logic of designing , supervising,  and completing such a small house in the midst of our vast industrialised society. The real work of design is not the mere production of housing as a social goal, but should instead be the creation of spaces that will strongly appeal to people. Unless it attains the status of a work of art, a house has no reason for being. The strength of my conviction that ‘A House is a Work of Art’ was born of the struggle with this small house. I wished to express the force space contained in the doma (earthen-floor room) of an old Japanese farmhouse, this time by means of the geometric structural design of a karakasa (oiled-paper Japanese umbrella).”

Kazuo Shinohara, text for Umbrella House, Shinkenchiku, vol.37, no.10, Tokyo, October 1962 (first published in English in The Japan Architect, vol.38, Tokyo, February 1963).

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#santiagocalatrava #theocculus #theocculusnyc #biggestskylight #nyc #PANYNJ #WTC #exposedstructure #shiny #architecture #manhattan

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Brazilian modernism

Casa Butantã, Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1964)

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Brutalist display of art

Bernard Zehrfuss, musée Gallo-Romain, Lyon (1969-1975).

photos : l’œil à réaction, 2015-2022.

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Everything in the mix!

Museum Wilhelm Morgner (1961-62) in Soest, Germany, by Rainer Schell. Photo from August 2024.