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A Daily Dose of Architecture: Half Dose #43: Tile for Yu-un

This I love. It reminds me of a really cool and timely update of Frank Lloyd Wright's ideas about texture, and how the appropriate emphasis on surface texture will relate to your bodily experiences, will make you experience time differently (perhaps more slowly -- note the knobby quality of the highly polished "bon-bons" vs the smooth glass of the entry, not to mention the strict geometry of the stairs (see esp'y the 3rd picture).

Tags: courtyard, embodiment, frank_lloyd_wright, materiality, tadao_ando, tokyo on 2008-01-23 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About