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Freeland Museum of Architecture - Southern Wing
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WELCOME, from Eduarqui in Brazil
Hello, fans of Sim City : we are glad to join FREELAND MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE (FMoA) in this Southern Wing, a place for Exhibitions of Architecture (in this Main Page) and Urban Design (in our Arcade). We hope to bring images and texts about Real World and Sim World, purposing to bring ideas to all creative minds. And we would like to give our best thanks to Fredfree and all Staff for their support and location in this nice city of Freeland, a stimulating place where we can meet and talk with free spirits !
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Opening Exhibition :
A PACIFIC MASTER.
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Modern Movement in Architecture had its first great public appearance between world wars, mainly in Europe and spreading to other countries - the three Americas and Asia received visits from most important masters of this new trend in building and city planning, and they were received as sacred voices of a New Era. While Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius (both important thinkers from german Bauhaus School) fixed residence in USA, with young Philip Johnson as their incentiver, Le Corbusier used to travel from France to each country interested in hearing about his ideas, with very popular conferences (his two first visits to Brazil, in 1929 and 1937, were big events), and by this way he could create a legion of followers. This happened in Japan, where a then very young student - KENZO TANGE - could learn some of Corbu's ideas, few years after pioneers Mayekawa and Junzo Sakakura. And he used this knowledge in 1940s, making a solid career in his country, where he is most influent professional till present times - but with modesty and politness, as expected from a real master. Let' s see some of his works.
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TANGE has very divulgated works since 1946, but his name was knew from everyone around the World in 1964, when he made most important structures for Tokyo Olympic Games. Its Main Stadium (above, left) is an imposing steel roof, using same principles of suspended bridges construction, but with a singular reference for japanese crafts work in wood, due to its resemblance to some traditional boats. At same time he was planning a Catholic Cathedral for Tokyo, in honor of Saint Mary. With steel industry in Japan growing faster, it wa considered normal to use stainless steel for roof and walls of this crossed building (when seen from bird's eyes) : this splendid building (above, right) is a landmark in Tokyo today, with solenity and purity enough to inspire believers and tourists to know how important Architecture is to create a sense of place.
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In 1950s TANGE was comissioned to plan the reconstructed center of Hiroshima, with a new Peace Park. Here it was possible to make a dream for architects : to link Architecture and City Planning. The Peace Museum (picture at left) is a concrete block with exposed textures, but avoiding brutalist references (then beginning in western architecture, after Corbu's Ronchamp Chapel in France) because Tange used a discret threatment of forms and transparencies, all suspended above the ground with pilotis. The fabulous Park (bottom) is a green environment in present times Hiroshima, partly lung, partly heart, offering open space, beautiful trees and gardens to make people rest, play and meditate. Here the sense of place, so important for japanese people - as for people everywhere - could find a nest to teach next generations in search of a city with human significance.
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