Tadao Ando's Inspirations: Le Corbusier & Louis Kahn Yuju Kang ARCH 2345 Contemporary Architecture

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  1. Hi everyone, I meet you.
  2. And for this video I'll be talking about
  3. three very well known architects and the corporation,
  4. Louis Kahn and Tadao ando well more specifically,
  5. I studied how and those projects were influenced by Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn
  6. and one of his interviews and measured how he was especially inspired
  7. by Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn is a self taught architect.
  8. However,
  9. he didn't implicate your design tactics but
  10. turned him into his own architectural style.
  11. The paper talks about like a busy and louis cause major architectural
  12. philosophy and design elements and how and to apply them to his work
  13. first to briefly introduce each architect and their major architectural styles.
  14. Lucrezia was a swiss french architect who is now regarded as the
  15. most influential architect in modern architecture among a number of his projects.
  16. These are his most significant buildings that
  17. are frequently introduced in architecture history classes,
  18. especially for those of you who will be
  19. taking modern architecture class for the next semester.
  20. As a modern architect, Le Corbusier especially emphasized minimalism,
  21. functional isM and brutalism.
  22. He then developed and represented these big
  23. ideas to find main architectural principles.
  24. The Pilates free for plants, roof gardens, horizontal windows and free thought
  25. concrete,
  26. which is his main material used in his buildings is a key element in brutalism,
  27. which also supports his main emphasis on functional is um
  28. Louis Kahn was an American architect and he was also
  29. one of the most influential architects of the 20th century.
  30. His buildings are known for a monumental and modulated features,
  31. highlighted forms, materials and weight of the buildings.
  32. He was also highly interested in natural illumination and geometric
  33. shapes which are indicated in his key buildings has shown
  34. and here is terra and joe who is a
  35. japanese self taught architect who grew his interest in
  36. the western architect lender Gucci and Louis Kahn while
  37. he was traveling around in europe for personal research
  38. and those signature styles, which are his use of concrete and natural components,
  39. especially the light are very recognizable in many of
  40. his buildings which were derived from his great influencers.
  41. So I briefly introduce each architect and their architectural styles.
  42. Now I'm going to talk about the core studies
  43. the paper which is how and extracted local cuisine
  44. and cause tactics and development them into his own
  45. design by comparing a building from each architect.
  46. They look very similar to each other but they're certainly not the same.
  47. So the building on the left side is designed by a
  48. local version and the building on the right side is designed by
  49. both of them emphasize the primary use a
  50. reinforced concrete and horizontal Itty of building layers,
  51. they also represent a rectilinear form with a central open quarter.
  52. However, their buildings serve very different programs.
  53. The coopers is buildings is more,
  54. is a monastery while and this building is a shopping
  55. mall therefore and this building is more for casual users and
  56. designed the space to be more open to the public um
  57. which is shown by including more clear glass on the facade
  58. on the other hand,
  59. liquid busiest building's facade is more covered due to its religious intentions.
  60. So the happiness is highlighted more here
  61. also.
  62. While the monastery has a pure rectilinear form,
  63. a triangle form is added to the main body of the shopping mall building,
  64. which has more flexibility in terms of circulations and views.
  65. But I'm more so institute by louis Kahn in
  66. charge of light by title and you are the great
  67. um examples showing and those distinct distinctiveness
  68. from one of his life influencers.
  69. Both buildings are constructed with reinforced concrete,
  70. which is the main material that represent modernist architecture.
  71. These undecorated concrete emphasized the modernist idea of the
  72. pure in structure of this building and factionalism.
  73. More importantly,
  74. the representation of natural light is very crucial to both projects.
  75. However,
  76. the symbolic meanings of white and how the lights
  77. are presented in the buildings are very different.
  78. While the light in Self institute that travels in
  79. the middle of separating the space symmetrically symbolizes the
  80. scientific precision and intellectual light that leads to discovery
  81. since the building is a scientific research institute.
  82. However, the light in Andrew's church symbolizes the christian cross.
  83. The life are self institute is shown by the
  84. reflection from the water channel in the middle,
  85. but the light is shone through the openings in the walls looking inside
  86. the form the cross in the Church of light from and those design.
  87. These two comparisons are just the best example out of many that shows how and those
  88. architectural styles were inspired by local abrasion and
  89. louis Kahn's design but have different applications.
  90. To conclude it was very interesting
  91. to how architects from different countries with
  92. different architectural backgrounds used the same
  93. source but apply different tactics also.
  94. It was fascinating to find out about the difference between others.
  95. Work from medical reason and louis Kahn's work.
  96. At first,
  97. it was hard to clearly define the differences since
  98. their buildings look very similar to each other.
  99. But more research. I realized that the buildings are very different and unique.
  100. And this is just the last page of a summary page
  101. that I put some key words and photos from this presentation.
  102. Thank you for watching and I hope you enjoyed this video.