kenzo-tange-and-his-high-tech-masterpieces

kenzotangedesign.jpgkenzo_tange.jpgProfessor Kenzo Tange was a Japanese maestro architect, famous by his impressive modern-structural masterpieces (later known by name “High-Tech” modern style). High Tech is architecture design style that exposed the building construction’s structures as a part of the design aesthetic. Tange’s works including the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (1st place in design competition), Summer Olympics stadium complex in Tokyo, which the design is like a stringray fish form (Pritzker Prize citation as “among the most beautiful buildings of the 20th century”), Tokyo Cathedral of Saint Mary, and Tokyo Master Plan, which concept to re designed the Tokyo city, OUB Center, OUB Plaza in Singapore, also master plan to re-designed the Plaza Place d’Italie, in Read more

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roger-trancik-and-urban-spatial-design-theory

roger_trancik01.jpgProfessor Roger Trancik is an urban designer and landscape architect. Trancik known as a professor in several studies, such as Cornell University, Landscape Architecture and City and Regional Planning Harvard University, Associate Professor of Urban Design 150th Anniversary Professor of Urban Design, Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden Professor-in-Residence, University of Colorado, Rome Program in Architecture and Urbanism Visiting Professor, Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Read more

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the-concise-townscape-theory

Concise Townscape Theory, Gordon Cullen

Serial Vision

Serial Vision is to walk from one end of the plan to another, at a uniform pace, will provide a sequence of revelations which are suggested in the serial drawings opposite, reading from left to right. Read more

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the-aesthetic-townscape-theory

insideoutside.jpgThe Aesthetic Landscape Theory, Yoshinobu Ashihara

Inside and Outside

In many parts of the world interior and exterior space seems to have a certain homogeneity. Attitudes and dress differ little depending on whether one is “inside” or “outside”.

Views from Within and Views from Without

Masonry construction in the West and post-and-beam construction in Japan’s traditional architecture are also distinguished by completely different approaches to viewing the landscape. For example: Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque architecture provides an Read more

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yoshinobu-ashihara-and-the-aesthetic-townscape

yoshinobuashihara.jpgProfessor Yoshinobu Ashihara, also known as Yoshinobu Ashihara, is one of architecture maestro. Ashihara wrote several masterpieces such as “The Aesthetic Townscape” (winner of the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award), and Read more

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