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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer
TOKYO (AP) - A new generation of Japanese architects believes the world has fallen out of love with the 20th century steel and concrete skyscraper. They are pushing a human-friendly alternative that some say has roots in the elegant simplicity of the traditional Japanese tea house.
Instead of pursuing monuments that cry out with a message of economic power, these Pritzker Prize-winning architects are scoring success with a uniquely Japanese reinterpretation of the past.
Unlike their predecessors, who modernized Japan with Western-style edifices, they talk of fluidly defining space with screens and sliding doors, innovatively blending with nature, taking advantage of earthy materials and incorporating natural light, all trademarks of Japanese design.
Their sensibility is also a hit abroad, said Erez Golani Solomon, professor of architecture at Waseda University in Tokyo.
"Food and architecture," said Solomon, stressing how the two are Japan's most potent brands. "They are powerful - Japan's strongest cultural identity."
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Kengo Kuma, one of the star architects, finds he is in demand not only in Japan and in the West but also in places such as China, which has tempestuous relations with Tokyo but now boasts a growing fan base for Kuma's works.
Among the major China projects for Kuma are the recent Xinjin Zhi Museum, whose sloping angles and repeated tile motifs are characteristically Kuma, and the Yunnan Sales Center, a sprawling complex of shops, housing and a theater, where wooden lattice decorates the main structure overlooking a pond.
He also designs private homes for affluent Chinese who admire Zen philosophy and want to incorporate that stark aesthetic into their daily lives, he said.
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Filipino architects are to be commended for their contribution to the Kingdoms development, said Ghazi Al-Abbasi, an architect and secretary-general of the Saudi Council of Engineers (SCE). It goes without saying that the contributions of Filipino architects in national development during the past decade is well-recognized, Al-Abbasi said when he recently graced the induction of new officers of the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP). The event was attended by some 100 Filipino architects who are UAP members. He added that Filipino architects have participated in the development of various projects in the Kingdom. Mario A. Balboa, an electronics engineer and chairman of the Philippine Council of Engineers and Architects, also delivered an inspirational message. Filipino architects have participated in various global projects so that UAP members could take pride in their talents, he said. Labor Attache Resty Dela Fuente also attended the induction ceremony and also talked on the occasion, noting that architects are one of the key partners in nation-building. The new UAP officers, headed by Clamor Lecitona, were presented by Eldrid B. Refil, 2009-2011 charter president, and inducted to office by Labor Attache Dela Fuente. Asiddin K. Arabain, immediate past president, presented UAPs activities during his term, which included seminars, workshops and social services.
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If George Lucas indeed builds his vanity museum in Chicago, San Francisco's contribution may be that we helped nudge the "Star Wars" creator out of his aesthetic comfort zone for the first time since he started making sequels to his sequels and re-releasing his re-releases.
That's the intriguing twist to last week's announcement of a design team for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on the shores of Lake Michigan. The lead designer will be MAD Architects, a Chinese firm whose lone North American project is a pair of curvaceous residential towers in metropolitan Toronto that could be squeezed metallic toothpaste tubes.
It's hard to imagine a style less like the theme-park classicism that Lucas offered up last fall when seeking to erect and endow a home for his collection of illustrative art at Crissy Field in the Presidio. When decision-makers turned him down after a combustive public competition, Lucas and his $700 million collection were lured to Chicago.
Because of this, some observers in the design world speculate that Lucas is an architectural agnostic. Metropolis Magazine's executive editor, Martin Pedersen, used the word "situational" in a blog post last week to describe the filmmaker's "remarkably flexible taste."
Instead, Pedersen suggested, "He just wants to get the damn thing approved. In architecture-adverse San Francisco - especially in the Presidio - that meant classical architecture."
When I sought to discuss the design shift with Lucas' press team Tuesday, the response via e-mail was a polite, "We decline to comment at this time and will let you know when that changes."
My guess, though, is that the creative vision pursued at Crissy Field is the one dear to Lucas' heart.
The evidence is in the structures that Lucas built for his cinematic empire before selling Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 for $4 billion.
The Marin resident billed himself as "primary conceptual designer" in press materials for the 2005 opening of his Letterman Digital Arts Center at the Presidio - a 23-acre complex that includes four oversize but immensely tasteful office buildings clad in red brick and white stucco, earnest updates of the military architecture nearby. Skywalker Ranch and Big Rock Ranch in Marin are detailed evocations of a genteel rural West, inflated to studio size.
"There's nothing wrong with replicating old architecture," Lucas told the New York Times in September as he prepared to release his Crissy Field design. "Basically, all of Washington is a mimic of the past."
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Architects respond to Aucklands housing challenge
More than 60 architectural concepts from a competition to design an exemplary apartment building for a brownfield site in Mt Eden will go on display at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tmaki from 10 August until 12 August.
The medium density housing project will be sited on Akepiro Street, a cul-de-sac overlooking the rail line near the Dominion Road flyover that falls within one of Auckland Councils proposed Special Housing Areas, the districts slated for more intensive residential development.
The competition was organised by the New Zealand Institute of Architects in partnership with developer Ockham Residential and with the support of Auckland Council.
Pip Cheshire, President of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, says the competition and exhibition are opportunites to inform the public about a housing type that is needed in New Zealands largest city but which has encountered some scepticism.
A range of well-designed, infill residential projects is vital to promote community understanding and acceptance of higher density in selected urban areas, which is one of the aims of the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan, Cheshire says.
The large number of entries received in the Akepiro Street competition is proof of architects interest in and commitment to the development of housing models that meet the demands of a more populous city while offering a healthy and comfortable quality of life.
Cheshire says the exhibition, which presents a wide range of creative responses to the competition brief, will also give the public an insight into the architectural design process.
Mayor Len Brown says that the competition is a timely and important contribution to the housing discussion.
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