concepts

each group; please add your 5 concepts as 2 comments to this post.

Experiment 2

The two architects I have chosen for Experiment 2 are

• Walter Burley Griffin (1876 - 1937) (ref 1); and
• Tadao Ando (1941 - ) (ref 2)

Griffin is perhaps best known as the designer of Canberra (Australia's Capital City). Within Australia, he is also well known for the work he did at Castle Crag (a suburb on Sydney's North Shore). You might also want to research some of the Incinerator's designed by him. Griffin's architecture is strongly influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright (who was strongly influenced by traditional Japanese architecture)...

Tadao Ando is a Japanese Architect who has designed a number of beautiful Modernist buildings (he is also influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright and traditional Japanese architecture). Some of his buildings include the "Church on the Water", the "Church of the Light", and the "Rokko Housing" complex.

Ando won the Pritzker Prize in 1995 (the top Architecture award in the world) and the Pritker website ( http://www.pritzkerprize.com/laureates/1995) has some useful information...

References:

1. Walter Burley Griffin, Wikipedia, url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Burley_Griffin.
2. Tadao Ando, Wikipedia, url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadao_Ando.

Over the weekend I went to Canberra and took the opportunity to check out the Villa Savoy "tribute" behind the Australian National Museum. (Russell mentioned it during his lecture last week.)


Australian National Museum (Canberra) from Mount Ainsley. 2012-03-18.

Villa Savoy "tribute" (behind the Australian National Museum). 2012-03-18.


This image below is of the real building (in France). Photo by Inga Anga.

The course blog

FYI, the course blog is @ http://arch1101-2012.blogspot.com.au/

the course discussion forum is at https://groups.google.com/group/arch1101-2012

Weclome

This will be the blog for Stephen Peter's ARCH1101 (2012) group. I'll post outstandingly interesting stuff here, or at least I'll have links to the blogs of the outstanding students in my group! :-)