They have been doing construction and when they finished and took off the wall, I found the large clock in front of the department store and subway entrance.
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Nov 10, 2013
A large clock at Tennoji Station underground
They have been doing construction and when they finished and took off the wall, I found the large clock in front of the department store and subway entrance.
Aug 6, 2012
Julia Morgan’s style
Julia Morgan’s style
Julia Morgan was born
in 1872. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in Civil
Engineering and also studied architecture design at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in
Paris.
What I think different
from other architect like Frank Lloyd Wright or Tadao Ando which when we see
the building and notice their styles right away. Tadao Ando, a Japanese
architect who has works around the world known for his bere concrete structure
styles, and many follower Japanese architects used similar style of his. In
case of Julia Morgan, she doesn’t have her own original material and/or design,
but devotedly follow her clients’ wishes and ideas. She mainly worked for her
patron, William Randolph Hearst, but she continuously worked both big and small
projects with or without his support until her age of 78. She was able to
design many kinds of materials depending on her clients’ need, availability of
materials, space size, and it’s surrounding atmosphere. Her style is
conservative and she designed Renaissance Revival, Tudor, Spanish Colonial,
Mediterranean, Islamic and Asian styles. I am amazed her dexterousness and
flexibility to challenge many styles of designs. I think in her time,
especially as a woman, it must be hard to convince her creditability and
ability.
Within many styles she did, she
said herself that she has a fondness for the California Arts and Crafts style
that Bernard Maybeck inspired her.
(http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2003/0326/culture_1-1.html)
Just at a glance of her tile design in the Module 6, session 5 image, I could
tell the influence of Art & Craft Movement which developed in England in
the 1860s. They were against the growing industrialization of Victorian
Britain, and believed in the equality of all the arts and the importance and
pleasure of work. So they tended to make simple and organic design within the
commercial objects including buildings and interiors.
“Throughout
her career, she designed nearly 800 projects in California and Hawaii.”
Just by looking at some of her works, (chosen from the Julia
Morgan Index.
she designed different materials for housing and public
buildings. For example, Aurora Stull House was made of redwood shingles,
and YMCA at Chinatown, San Francisco, and Emanu-el Sisterhood
Residence (now the San Francisco Zen Center) were made with red brick.
Other buildings like Oakland YWCA, Fairmont Hotel, and Hearst
Building in San Francisco were made with concrete. They were covered with
plaster and encrusted with glazed terra cotta ornament.
Some house like Abraham Rosenberg House has a combination of
both. It covered with concrete, but was timbered with redwood and painted over.
(http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/jmrosenberg/jmrosenberg.html)
It apparently has her consideration for withstanding fires
and earthquakes. After, 1906 San Francisco, and 1923 The Berkeley Fire, she
tried to reinforced with her former houses and built new houses with stronger
materials.
Despite of her planning of
different materials used and style of structures, she utilized her design
skills where she learned at l’Ecole des Beaux Art in Paris.
“I like to mix that tradition with the
sophisticated elements of classicism that I learned at l’Ecole des Beaux Arts
in Paris and with the demands of the client and the environment, both natural
and man-made.”(http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2003/0326/culture_1-1.html)
Almost
all her buildings have her own unique ornament design, such as you see in the
Star of David icon on the iron balcony of it loggia at the second floor of the
San Francisco Zen Center.
Another
Arts and Craft style that she was influenced from was symmetrical façade.
Weather it is a small house or the massive Hearst Castle, symmetrical design
made it looks as grace and simple. As an engineer, she could also concern with
lighting effect in 3D form.
“I like to give illusion of space with ceiling designs. I
consider how the room will be furnished. I think about how much natural light
will filter into the room from the windows.”
Not talking about hash light coming in, but she made the
subtle lighting coming though the building to have the entire feeling of the
hallway, calm and peaceful. (see Hallway inside the Chinatown, San Francisco
and YWCA – Interior, Oakland, CA in the websites.
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Source:
Julia Morgan
Julia Morgan
Julia
Morgan is known for being one of the first female architects born here in San
Francisco. She grew up in the bay
area in Oakland. She was a very
small woman in size, just over 5 feet and 100 pounds. Despite her physical appearance, her character was very
strong. She graduated high school
in Oakland in 1890 and furthered her education at University of California
Berkeley in 1894. She studied civil engineering and received her
degree.
Julia
Morgan was a student and friend of Bernard Maybeck, fellow architect and and
resident of the bay area. Bernard
Maybeck wished to see Julia's talent grow and persuaded her to apply to Ecole
des Beaus-Arts in Paris. The first
time Julia applied she was rejected because the school was all male and no
female students were allowed to attend.
She applied a second time despite her rejection and was again
denied. The school claimed their
reason of her rejection to be her failing the exam to enter the program. Two years later Julia took the test
again, this time passing. She
chose to study architecture and graduated as the first woman to recieve a
degree at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Her degree read:
"Artist and Engineer; Designer of simple
dwellings and stately homes, of great buildings
nobly planned to further the centralized activities of her fellow citizens; Architect in whose works harmony and admirable
proportions bring pleasure to the eye and
peace to the mind." (http://www.usdreams.com/Morgan22.html)
After
leaving Paris she returned to San Francisco, her birthplace, working for Galen
Howard and friend Bernard Maybeck.
John Galen Howard won a competition to design the main architectural
plan for University of California Berkeley. Julia worked on details of a building on the campus called
the Mining building in memory of Hearst.
She also worked on drawing the elevations of the Master Plan. Morgan then moved onto the Hearst Greek
Theater.
Julia
Morgan left the firm and then decided to open her own office in San Francisco,
1904. She quickly became a well known and established architect in
her residential area. She worked
on building beautiful homes in Oakland, Clairmont and in the Piedmont hills for
prominent families. Juilia had a
refined, subtle and gracious style in her architecture using craft sytle,
earthtones, horizontal lines, and working with materials like exposed
redwood. A well known house Julia
worked on is the North Star House in Grass Valley, California. She also worked on designing the El
Campanil Bell tower located in Oakland.
The tower is on Mills College in Oakland. The tower is famous for withstanding the earthquake in
1906.
Although
the earthquake in 1906 was devastating to the city of San Francisco and the bay
area, it was an amazing career opportunity for Julia Morgan. The earthquake happened just two years
after she opened her own architectural firm in San Francisco. She was commissioned to reconstruct the
Fairmont hotel on the top of Nob Hill after the earthquake. She also worked on building YMCA buildings
in California, Utah, Hawaii, and the Asilomar Conference Center.
Morgan's
most famous commission was soon to come.
In 1919 William Randolph Hearst selected her to construct the Hearst
Castle
on a $11 million plot of land he had inherited in San
Simeon, California. For the next
28 years Morgan worked on the Hearst Castle. One of her jobs was to find and purchase things like
Reindeer for the castle's zoo, priceless antiques from europe and Moss from
Iceland. She also helped
Hearst incorporate his collection
of art into all of the architectural design. Morgan designed everything in the tiniest detail. After her commission to do the
Hearst Castle, Hearst also hired her to work on many more projects for him
including the Examiner Building in Los Angeles. In the 1930's Mogan's work at the castle slowed due to
Randoph's financial state. Julia
Morgan had many other
clients to work for and slowly left the castle to construct other
buildings. In 1947 Randoph left
the castle and Julia never returned to work on it. The castle remained incomplete.
After a successful career in architecture as a
woman amongst men; Julia Morgan retired in the 1950's, then died in 1957.
Sources:
http://www.usdreams.com/Morgan22.html
http://www.hearstcastle.com/history/julia_morgan.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Morgan
Aug 5, 2012
My Impression of Fairytale
My
Impression of Fairytale
I am not in IAD
major, so it is hard to answer in the practical manner, but I have some house
and building that want to use as a design for the story book.
First one is the
Green Gables House. The original is at the Prince Edward Island, East Coast
Canada. It is popular site for the best-selling book of Anna of Green Gables.
It is also popular for Japanese tourist, from its Japanese anime series, Akage
no An, (“Red-Haired Anne”) showed in 1979. So, first thing I heard the word,
“story house”, I think of this place.
Actually, Japanese
import housing company, Maples Homes, build the Green Gabled house already, but
just assuming that I build this style in San Francisco, I would change more to
cream color (Naples Yellow) wall and enhance the wall (maybe use concrete or
stucco inside of the wooden panels for securing from earthquake. The size would
be smaller too to fit in one of the land of the housing area in San Francisco.
It could be little shorter with the width than the original.
Second choice is a
Cinderella Castle in Tokyo Disneyland at the Tokyo Disney Resort. The
Cinderella Castle was originally a carbon copy of the Magic Kingdom in Florida,
but
“….however from 1986-2006,
"Cinderella's Mystery Castle Tour" was a popular attraction featured
within the castle. In June 2006, the castle was repainted, to differentiate it
from Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom. The castle now has gold trimmings,
the rooftops have been painted a different shade of blue, and the white stone
of the turrets now has a tan/dirty-pink color.” (wikipedia, Cinderella Castle)
Actually, I like
the original Cinderella Castle that I saw when I used to go there. I think the
way it is now look more childish. (Off course it is ok to be childish at the
Disneyland, but just with my taste, I prefer old one better.) The reason why I
pick this building, because I like Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany, and the
Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty Castle (in Anaheim, Disneyland) and Cinderella castle
was its inspiration. The foundation stone of the building was laid in 1869
designed by Christian Jank. It was stood on top of the rocky hill. Now it is
one of the world heritage sites. People cannot go in, but there is a viewpoint
for tourist can see as close as they can get. Without noticing that this is so
important building around the world, I used to do the jigsaw puzzle of this
German castle, and I still have it at the entrance of my house.
The Neuschwanstein
Castle is too large for the Storybook style and too gorgeous for ordinary
people’s house if it is shrunk with the size from the Cinderella Castle or
Sleeping Beauty Castle, it would be cute looking story house. Off course, for
the copy right of the Disney, I need to make little different. Again, I like
the original more simple, less colorful German castle, so I would make use of
the Neuschwanstein Castle, but maybe use red brick or redwood for the material,
if I would build it in San Francisco.
At last, as
mentioned the Straw Bale House, straw bale house is a house that is built with
a stack of the straw with adobe clay or mad on top for the wall, and dry and
just painted on top. It is organic friendly, so no chemical odor wall that is
caused with many people who has skin sensitive sickness. Also, it is
eco-friendly, to save from using metal or concrete wall. Actually, there is
nothing new for the concept for some African tribe houses, or even ancient
house in Japan. But, the way putting colorful paint, it would look more
artistic and more doll house-like little hut. I like the idea of using bottom
of the glass bottle to put on the wall, so that the light coming though in the
house. I have seen the house in Santa Fe, New Mexico. As I was looking at Japan
Straw Bale Association website, and the book on the Straw Bale House, I like
the idea that people from the community, or friends or the eco-conscious group
come together and build one house.
Nijusseiki Yokujou (20 century public bath)
Nijusseiki Yokujou
(20 century public bath)
There are not many Art Deco style
buildings that I found in Japan. Maybe there are, but I just don’t know which
one. One of the Art Deco that I found in wikipedia and I thought that is
interesting to me is Nijusseiki Yokujou in Tokyo.
The concept sento, public bath was
started in 1591, which people around the same nationhood take a bath together
and communicate each other. (men and women take separately) At old time, not
many people have their own bathroom in their home, so they go to take
commercial bath in a reasonable price. In the modern era, it cost as cheap as
$2-3. Ever since after the WWII, when Japanese society became more modernized,
people tend to have their own bath at their home or apartment, so there are not
much need of this kind of the public bath. Besides, Japanese Hot Spring Resort,
and commercial spa are still popular, especially during the cold winter time,
but they are more expensive.
The Nijusseiki Yokujou is an old style
public bath built in 1929. (There is no information who built.) Like some of
you might have seen from the Japanese Hayao Miyazaki anime, “Spirited Away”,
Japanese public bath from the same period was build commonly more Japanese
hotel-like style with a tiled roof. Around 1920th, they tended to
build more elaborated bathhouse, but in Japanese style. Unusually, this
Nijusseiki Yokujou bathhouse was built with Western style Art Deco style. As
seen in the photos, there are long arched windows, round windows. Tiling that
are used for outside wall is called, “Scratch tiling,” Literally, it is tiling
that has a lot of scratched pattern. There is repetitive patterned motif on the
outside wall and on top of motife, the wall is covered with Spanish tile, not Japanese
tile to match with the Deco style building. Even the chimney that always
attached with a public building looks as one of the ornament of the Streamline
style. I think the naming, “20th century” also means, the forefront, like new
fashioned public bath at the time.
Interior of the bathhouse, there are
bathrooms with bathtub with 23 tabs for water and hot water. The bathrooms are
covered with checker designed tiles on the floor. It is just a regular
bathhouse like any other ones, but there are curved geometric European designed
lightings on the wall by the bathtub.
I think it makes sense with Art Deco
bathhouse, because they used to heat up water with charcoal at old public
bathhouse. Charcoal could imply of the modern technology like a steam engine. Sadly, this Nijusseki Yokujou was closed
and demolished just on 2007, 12, 31.
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