![]() ![]() Der Artikel hebt die immer wieder vorgebrachte Formel des mangelnden „Komforts“ modernistischer Architektur hervor und kommt auf den Ursprung dieser Kritik zurück: Bei den Wettbewerben der Jahre 19 forderten Peter Cook und Toyo Ito als jeweilige Preisrichter die Architekten heraus, innovative Wohnbauten zum „Komfort in der Metropole“ zu entwerfen. Der internationale Ideenwettbewerb wird hier im Kontext einer langen Geschichte transnationaler Begegnungen betrachtet, um den ideologischen Wandel von einer Verfestigung modernistischer Ideale hin zur Kritik derselben nachzuvollziehen. This investigation reveals that the mechanism of this longstanding, idea-based competition confronts two judges’ positions to understand their cultural and architectural differences.ĭiese Untersuchung befasst sich mit der (von 19) jährlich ausgerichteten Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition als einem ergiebigen interkulturellen Austauschmedium, das neues Architekturwissen generiert. Next, the paper juxtaposes the outcomes of both years of the competition to offer a diachronic analysis of how architects have conceived the house and the city differently through time. The paper highlights the iteration of the lack of “comfort” of modernist architecture, tracing the origins of this critique by referencing the 19 competitions, during which the respective judges Peter Cook and Toyō Itō challenged architects to devise innovative housing proposals to attain “comfort in the metropolis.” It initially employs a synchronic approach to investigate the origins of Cook’s competition theme, the multiple winning entries, the judges’ final remarks, and the after-effects of the competitions to apprehend how discrete geographies negotiated the notion of comfort. ![]() It situates this international competition of ideas in a long history of transnational encounters, to identify the contours of the ideological shift from the consolidation of modernist ideals to their critique. This article originally appeared on Architonic, where TLMag presents articles in French and English.This investigation approaches the annual Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition (1965-2020) as a productive cross-cultural medium of exchange that generates new architectural knowledge. That kind of stuff is tricky and fascinating. You are in a certain mood, and there is a certain kind of light coming through the window. Architecture very much is a theatrical thing – you proceed through a building in a certain way. ![]() These are things that even in a model you can’t fully understand. So you can have a good organisational concept of a roof, say, but suddenly there is an amount of light trapped by a beam or the prominence of a radiator or a dark reveal of a wall where the light doesn’t quite get through. The thing you don’t know until you have done a few buildings is the significance of objects that may not be central to the scheme. I’ve been very interested in the effect of light and materiality in the presence of objects. What do you feel when you move through one of your finished buildings? So I would go down the beach and make canals – not sandcastles, but towns – I described roads and canals and organisation. I was fascinated by town-planning already at a young age. It would have a malleability and mobility. I am imagining this magical material that can come towards you and that could melt away. It would have responsive characteristics. If you could create a super-material, what characteristics should it have? We can really control its porosity and its density and its efficiency in a way that formally we couldn’t. ![]() We can make a wall do and look like anything. Walls can be much more sophisticated than before. Sir Peter Cook: The tendency of the 21st century is the controllability of the wall. Having taught architecture for over fifty years, the British architect, lecturer and writer has played a pivotal role within the global architectural world.Īnita Hackethal, Architonic: Would you say there is a building material for the 21st century? The Architonic team chatted with the cheerful and somewhat cynical soul Sir Peter Cook. ![]()
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