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Sacred Modernity: The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture , Jamie McGregor Smith
Sacred Modernity documents the dramatic shift in ecclesiastical architecture across post-war Europe. Spurred on by the modernizing impulses of the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s, and in search for an appropriate architectural language that showed that the Catholic Church was still relevant to the modern world, this was the period when the church married the atheist architect, and bore a child of pure form.
Sacred Modernity: The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture , Jamie McGregor Smith
Vienna-based photographer Jamie McGregor Smith has spent years travelling the continent in search of sacred spaces that allowed architects’ imaginations to run wildhttps://t.co/ZoKxgReglb
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Sacred Modernity: The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture , Jamie McGregor Smith
Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto (b. 1945) was born in Beijing, People’s Republic of China and relocated to Yokohama, Japan shortly after the end of World War II. Negotiating a balance between public and private dimensions from childhood, he lived in a home that was modeled after a traditional Japanese machiya, with his mother’s pharmacy in the front and their living area in the rear. “The threshold on one side was for family, and on the other side for community. I sat in between.”
Yamamoto knew little about his father, who had passed away when the architect was only five years old. In some ways, he sought to emulate his father’s career as an engineer, but instead forged his own path into architecture. At age 17, he visited Kôfuku-ji Temple, in Nara, Japan, originally built in 730 and finally reconstructed in 1426, and was captivated by the Five-storied Pagoda symbolizing the five Buddhist elements of earth, water, fire, air and space. “It was very dark, but I could see the wooden tower illuminated by the light of the moon and what I found at that moment was my first experience with architecture.”
He graduated from Nihon University, Department of Architecture, College of Science and Technology in 1968 and received a Master of Arts in Architecture from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Architecture in 1971. He founded his practice, Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop in 1973.
Photo courtesy of Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop ( pritzkerprize.com )
Riken Yamamoto, el arquitecto constructor de la realidad, premio Pritzker 2024 https://t.co/ggvDkQt34c Le otorga este reconocimiento por un trabajo con el que nos recuerda «que en arquitectura, al igual que en democracia, los espacios deben ser creados por decisión de la gente»
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