FACTULITY OF ENVIROMENTAL DESIGN
AR321 Name: mohammed taha ID number: 1010017 Dr: farooq mofti Eng:ahmed falltah
Chikatsu Asuka 1 Historical Museum Ando was born in Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan, and raised in Asahi-ku in the city. He has led an eventful life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field. He visited buildings designed by renowned architects like Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn before returning to Osaka in 1968 and established his own design studio, Tadao Ando Architect and Associates The region-Chikatsu Asuka was the scene of the events that have marked the earliest period of Japanese history. They were discovered more than two hundred burial mounds including four imperial tombs. The museum stands in the middle of the tombs dating from the centuries II to VII, and is dedicated to culture Kofun as evidence of major historical events. The museum is located in the archaeological park Fusoki-no-Oka, region-Chikatsu Asuka in the southern part of Osaka. The building is in the middle of the park, digging area, housing the remains were discovered in the same place.
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Chikatsu Asuka 1 Historical Museum
2 Minimalism Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, ďťż where the work is set out to expose the essence or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts.
Minimalism is any design or style in which the simplest and fewest elements are used to create the maximum effect. As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with developments in post–World War II Western Art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with this movement include Donald Judd, John McCracken, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt, and Frank Stella. STEPS OF THE MINIMALISM: - Abstraction - Materials - Function
Parc de la 3 Villette The Parc de la Villette is one of the largest parks in Paris, located at the northeastern edge of the 19th arrondissement. The park houses one of the largest concentration of cultural venues in Paris, including the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (City of Science and Industry), Europe's largest science museum, three major concert venues and the prestigious Conservatoire de Paris. Parc de la Villette is served by Paris Métro stations Corentin Cariou on Line 7 and Porte de Pantin on Line 5.
T he park was designed by Bernard Tschumi, a French architect of Swiss origin, who built it from 1984 to 1987 on the site of the huge Parisian abattoirs (slaughterhouses) and the national wholesale meat market, as part of an urban redevelopment project. The slaughterhouses, built in 1867 on the instructions of Napoléon III, had been cleared away and relocated in 1974. Tschumi won a major design competition in 1982–83 for the park, and he sought the opinions of the deconstructionist philosopher Jacques Derrida in the preparation of his design proposal.
France National 4 Library  On 14 July 1988, President Mitterrand of France announced its intention to build the library in Paris most of the modern world, with the title of "grand projet de l'Etat." Thus, in early 1989 he was summoned by an invitation, attended by 244 internationally renowned architects: the committee of the "Association pour la Bibliothèque de France" has selected twenty projects, of which only four were brought to attention of President Mitterand. This was the work of Dominique Perrault, Jan Kaplicky, James Stirling and Philippe Chaix. Finally, the jurors unanimously elected the project from French Perrault, who was then just 36 years thanks to the order obtained for the new library building, the young architect soon reached the notoriety .