CLASSIC MAKI: PERMISSIVE ORDER AND THE ICONIC IMAGE
Titel:
CLASSIC MAKI: PERMISSIVE ORDER AND THE ICONIC IMAGE
Auteur:
Taylor, Jennifer
Verschenen in:
Architectural theory review
Paginering:
Jaargang 6 (2001) nr. 1 pagina's 76-86
Jaar:
2001-04
Inhoud:
In Fumihiko Maki's writings and buildings of the late 1970s and 1980s there is afresh, evident awareness of the notion of complexity as a real and involving attribute of the time, and an increased interest in the possibilities of symbolic representation in architecture. Both of these explorations were deployed to extend the constricting limitations of the dogmas of the Modern Movement. That is, he sought a rejuvenation of a tired modernism, and its transformation into a rich and revealing architecture appropriate to the late twentieth century. In these regards Maki acknowledges his debt to the liberating aspects of the positions of architects such as Charles Moore and Robert Stern, and Robert Venturi, notably Venturis Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture of 1965, which had laid the way for a loosening of the constraints of the doctrines of orthodox modernism. Maki's architecture of the time, however, bears little resemblance to the popularist indulgences and excesses of American Post Modern architecture. In his hands the theoretical ideas became translated through the Japanese perspective, and the buildings emerged with a customary elegance and restraint.
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