Architecture

[eyad]

salam FORTUNATO


the point here is oriented exactly toward the techniques and the appropriate use of the architecture.
if u meant that the buildings there in Yemen are architecturally nice and have a unique design, thats right!!!
in shibam, in Yemen its known that they have a great urban fabric.

Shibam, Yemen
the whole buildings are connected together at the roof, by BRIDGES !!
and the height of the houses there is about 7-8 floors.
its very well arranged, i mean that every storey has its function.
from bottom to top:
floor for the cattles.
floor for the guests.
floor for the residents.
floor for the bedrooms.
floor for the WOMEN.

a great HIDDEN architecture which has to be known for us all.

[Shotokan_Karate]

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Welcome to the club

Retrospectively you could say I'm a recent fan of organic architecture

[eyad]

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Tadao Ando (安藤忠雄, Andō Tadao, born September 13, 1941 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture is sometimes categorised as Critical Regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field.
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He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism.

Ando's buildings are often characterized by complex three-dimensional circulation paths. These paths interweave between interior and exterior spaces formed both inside large-scale geometric shapes and in the spaces between them.

His "Row House in Sumiyoshi" (Azuma House), a small two-story, cast-in-place concrete house completed in 1976, is an early work that begins to show elements of his characteristic style. It consists of three equally sized rectangular volumes: two enclosed volumes of interior spaces separated by an open courtyard. By nature of the courtyard's position between the two interior volumes, it becomes an integral part of the house's circulation system.


A VERY VERY LONG LIST FOR HIS WORK>>>>> CHECK IT OUT:
Tadao Ando - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


en français
Tadao Ando est un célèbre architecte japonais contemporain. !!!!!!!
Tadao Ando, architecte


Unlike most contemporary architects, Ando did not receive any formal architectural schooling. Instead, he trained himself by reading and traveling extensively through Africa, Europe, and the United States. In 1970 he established Tadao Ando Architect & Associates.

Ando rejects the rampant consumerism visible within much of today's architecture. He responds both sensitively and critically to the chaotic Japanese urban environment, but maintains a connection to the landscape. Although Ando rejects cultural fads, he uses materials and forms to incorporate the materialism of modern society into his architecture. Accordingly, his concrete and glass buildings reflect, the modern progress underway in both Japan and the world.

In opposition to traditional Japanese architecture, Ando creates spaces of enclosure rather than openness. He uses walls to establish a human zone and to counter the monotony of commercial architecture. On the exterior, the wall deflects the surrounding urban chaos, while on the interior it encloses a private space.

Ando developed a radically new architecture characterized by the use of unfinished reinforced concrete structures. Using a geometric simplicity which reveals a subtlety and richness in spatial articulation, Ando has generated an architecture that shares the serenity and clarity that characterize traditional Japanese architecture.
Tadao Ando - Great Buildings Online


s o m e of his books>>





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Tadao ANDO et Harajuku...Made In Tokyo » 2005 » mai

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COSMOWORLDS | Tadao Ando. Complete works - Books Architecture, Architect Japan - Design International
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the official site..
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[Shotokan_Karate]

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Wow! Thanks Eyad!

I like the way Ando uses natural light to produce dramatic visual effects in and around his buildings.


I have some questions though:
Ando being a self-taught architect does not fulfill formal architectural schooling requirements adhered to here in the UK for example. So how did he bend the rules? And how does one become an officially recognised architect in Japan and elsewhere?

[eyad]

ahalan Shotokan_Karate

actually, Tadao uses the light one of the main elements of architecture.
light, water, and geometry form.
his way is called the chiaroscuro >> which deals with light and shade .

for the architecture in my opinion, and as many architects say... its a commutative experience, and it mainly depends on the mentality of the person himself.
For tadao Ando,, he dedicated his life for Reading.. yes reading for many years, he traveled a lot and experienced many life-styles.

his internationality, and the universal message by forms, shapes, and drawings. the principles he inspired are strongly depending on the pure geometry shapes.
Therefore, Ando compares himself to the poet who
chooses words carefully and gives them the most appropriate
forms of expression. Ando is keenly interested in and highly
knowledgeable about building materials. Once, in the early
1980s, Ando joined other sculptors, industrial designers, and
architects in an exhibition, held in Tokyo, of objects made out
of glass. Ando’s entry, nothing but numerous sheets of glass
laid horizontally on top of one another, brought to the viewer’s
attention the intrinsic nature of float glass. Produced by pouring
liquid glass on a flat bed, ordinary float glass inevitably has
minute irregularities on the upper-side surface.

you would like to read this PDF.
http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/arch.../andotadao.pdf
&
http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/..._1-2/67-80.pdf


enjoy

[eyad]

what is written about TADAO ANDO . ..... .. . . ............... .. . . .. .

The natural force of Tadao Ando

The celebrated Japanese architect Tadao Ando, an honorary Royal Academician, gave a lecture to an audience of 800 at the Royal Academy’s Annual Japanese Cultural evening on 3 November 2004. Between showing a delegation from the Japanese construction industry around London, admiring Norman Foster’s Swiss Re tower and signing 64 copies of his latest book, he found time for an interview with Jeremy Melvin.




Universal influences

Tadao Ando’s architecture has an extraordinarily universal appeal. Westerners and Easterners, architects and non-architects alike – even those looking at photographs as opposed to the actual buildings – gaze in amazement at how, using little more than concrete, glass and wood, he manages to incorporate the ineffable forces of nature like sunlight, wind and ocean into his designs. He relishes the result. ‘A few days ago,’ he says, speaking through the interpreter Simon Prentis, ‘I was struck by a comment I overheard from somebody who had just seen a van Gogh painting. “That was fantastic. It is worth living just to see that.” If my architecture can create that kind of response, to encourage people to say “My God, that is fantastic, nature is fantastic” I would be very happy.’


more from this source:
The natural force of Tadao Ando - Interviews - Architecture Programme - Royal Academy of Arts

[eyad]

Such an impressing project FOR The community.
Rokoo Housing Phrase I-III, Kobe, Japan
AS WELL - BY TADAO ANDO.








PEOPLE .. VISIT THIS LINK :
Rokoo Housing Phrase I-III, Kobe, Japan

further more, high resolution images are just there.