Seminar on

Arata Isozaki

Presentation By

Kapil KawatraPushkin Jain

Bachelor Of ArchitectureIII Year Apeejay S.A.P

Arata Isozaki

• Arata Isozaki born on 23.7.1931 Ōita Prefecture located on Kyushu Island, Japan. The capital is the city of Oita

• Japanese architect educated in Japan, he often integrated Eastern ideas into his designs

• A student and associate of Tange's, who also based his style on the LeCorbusier tradition

• He synthesized Western high-technology building concepts with peculiarly Japanese spatial, functional, and decorative ideas to create a modern Japanese style

• His urban schemes represented a new stage in Japan’s architectural evolution

• Principal designer using motifs, Arata’s work was accredited with the label ‘Post Modern’

• He was a provider of an experimental context for bold and dynamic images of the architectural future

• Allied to Japan’s resistance to rational urban planning during 1975-85• Isozaki expressed a yin-yang theory of positive and negative space

• Metabolists: A group of young architects- who announced their commitment to the very process of change in 'Visionary urban Projects' which blended an obsession with mechanisms and a vaguely spaceship imagery'

• .... architecture must be changeable, movable ... capable of meeting changing requirements. What is needed is not a fixed, static function, but one which is capable of metabolic changes. we must stop thinking in terms of function and form, and instead thrice in terms of space and changeable function"

• although their extravagant visions were not realized, but on smaller scale influenced other architect's scheme. Arata Isozaki's Bank, Girls High School-Otia 1963-64

• Isozaki - Self-conscious manipulation of formal language

• ISOZAKI showed a great degree of opener to western architecture and tradition, and adopted a manneux stance.

• ISOZAKI respond to the anonymity of Modernism, with extreme articulation in an attempt to provide identity.

• COSI,Columbus,Ohio,USA • Kyoto Concert Hall, Kyoto, Japan • Oita Prefectural Library, Oita, Japan • Museum Of Contemporary art (MOCA), Los Angeles California,

USA • Sports Hall for the 1992 Summer Olympics, Barcelona,Spain• Team Disney Orlando,Florida USA • Weill Cornell Medical College,Qatar,education city Near Doha• Torino Palasport Olimpico,Turin,Italy

Notable Works include

Museum Of Contemporary art (MOCA), Los Angeles California, USA

  Museum Of contemporary Art (1982-1986)

  -Influence by Hollen and Stirling  -Complex Post Modern space allows multiple ways of movements  -The implication-there are multiple ways to interpret modernism. It can also be plurality of meanings  -The MOCA Los Angeles is an electric mixture of western source with hidden eastern references, all abstracted to the extreme point of ambiguity  -Pyramid galleries, Renaissance garden, a diagonal trellis motif in steel, Palladian Motif above the gate are clearly western influence.  -The Sunken courtyard entrance, Indian Sandstone and Ying Yang Circulation Pattern are eastern influences  -The Juxtaposing of styles and motifs signify a generalized Pluralism and notion that art must today reflect Heterogeneity.

Team Disney Orlando,Florida USA

Disney Building (1989-1991)

#The Florida headquarters for Disney.#The building shows deep and convincing architecture that is nevertheless light hearted.#Collage of pinks, reds and greens as well as images               -Nuclear power station               -Mickey Mouse               -Rossi's-House of the Dead

Team Disney Orlando,Florida USA

#The building pulls it all together with a central cone, a walk through sun-dial.#This time theme is underscored in various ways specially by interior symbolism and spatial differences.#The Post-modern goa of representing high and low cultures without debasing them is here realized.

 -An approach to inventing a relevant ornament is to RE-THINK- 

-Production Methods  -Design Elements with an order which could be a classical

order  -Ornament can then be constructive and three dimensional

much like the classical masonry, but in an unmalleable material like R.C.C.

 -Isozaki has mixed flat metallic surfaces, with the heavy qouins, turned on the diagonal sculptural masses (recalling Ledoux) -Flat Steel Frame and grid versus the articulated masonry.-Western classical motifs versus the High Tech imagery

-All disciplined in well mannered surfaces certain literal borrowings from ledoux and Michelangelo make some details motionaltheir transition to a new scale gives them new life

Tsukaba Civic centre (1980-1983)

-Primary Shape of a black, silhouette gravel vault which twists in the shape of a metaphysical question mark -Ends with a version of "Palladios Villa Poiana"(Charles Jencks) -Primary form contrast with the surrounding environment

-Shows  the arbitrariness of form postulated by the Metaphysical School

Fujima Country Club-1975

Gunma Museum Of Modern Arts (1970-74)

• Isozaki has also been influenced by rationalists- since 1970, he has been, producing variations on cubes and grids and palladian plans.

• Gunma Museum - sequence implied through large cubes, articulated by surface structure of small grids

• Isozaki also elaborate rationalist's style - the non-joint, joint, the window or door opening as absence of walls, smash together of grids without any moldings or visual junctions.

• addressed certain traditional conventions for dealing with issues of facad, entrance and civic representation.

• In a language relying upon- Simple Geometrical order, clear structural system, high level of industrial craftsmanship.

• Building organized as an oblong - from which one wing was cranked at 22.5" , a device which helped define an urban space in front of building.

• The end of wing raised on piers, resembled a pavilion, giving due to passing traffic about presence of a cultural building.

• The entire was based on a cubic module, the rectangular system made visible through network of rectangular joints between metallic panels.

• The design introduced ambiguities between, surface and volume, lightness and visual weight.

• Worked back and forth between ABSTRACTION and REPRESENTATION.

COSI,Columbus,Ohio,USA

COSI,Columbus,Ohio,USA

•COSI, formerly known as the Center of Science and Industry, is a science museum in Columbus, Ohio, United States. COSI opened on March 29,1964, as a venture of the Franklin County Historical Society

Weill Cornell Medical College,Qatar,education city Near Doha

Sports Hall for the 1992 Summer Olympics, Barcelona,Spain

Oita Prefectural Library, Oita, Japan

Torino Palasport Olimpico,Turin,Italy

Kyoto Concert Hall, Kyoto, Japan