Shin Takamatsu
Japanese Architect
Education/Teaching:
Received a PHD in 1980 from Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University.
Became a lecturer in 1981 at Osaka University of Arts. Then in 1987 became an associate professor at Kyoto Seika University. In 1997 he became a professor at Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. And lastly in 2013, Takamatsu became a professor emeritus at Kyoto University.
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Inspirations for Work:
The architectural buildings that Takamatsu design are imagined from anthropomorphic or mechanical inspirations.
Anthropomorphic: having human characteristics.
Mechanical: form of high-tech architecture, that commonly uses steel, glass, and concrete to create a sense of function and structure. Buildings and materials advance along with technology.
With these use of imagery, Takamatsu's designs are futuristically and experimentally conceived buildings.
Function service form.
" most provocative and radical forms of postmodern architecture"
"His structures are equipped with abstract body parts and personalities of their own, becoming statement-making landmarks in the urban landscape."
PHILOSOPHY
Beautiful Architecture "Functional Architecture are beautiful" are the words of the master of modern architecture, Le Corbusier. Meaning that easy to use, sensible and efficient Architecture are beautiful. We had rephrased these words as "Beautiful Architecture are functional". Because we believe that the beautiful Architecture with nurture, desire, compassion, prayer, love and regret too; along with functionality alone can make this kind of "living" possible. Our mission is to create "Beautiful Architecture". Beautiful organization, beautiful working, and above all, beautiful technique.
“[I am] always dreaming of architecture as a monument, or as something with a symbolic presence.”
WORKS/ARCHITECTURE:
Takamatsu created/designed around 137 buildings/projects.
Most Notable:
Origin I, Kyoto, Japan, 1980-1981
Pharaoh, Kyoto, Japan, 1983-1984
Origin III, Kyoto, Japan, 1985-1986
Ark, Kyoto, Japan, 1983
Earthtecture Sub-1, Tokyo, Japan, 1991
Personal Cool Picks:
Tattoo, Hokkaido, Japan, 1989
Kunibiki Messe, Shimane, Japan, 1993
Nose Myoken-san Worship Hall, Hyogo, Japan, 1998
Omula Beauty College, Fukuoka, Japan, 1998
Sky Mission Around the Sky, Kanagawa, Japan, 2016
Shitennouji Elementary School, Osaka, Japan, 2009
My Opinions:
Shin Takamatsu's architecture can be very ugly but beautiful and the same time. I love the way he plays with height, windows, and lighting. He considers a lot about who is gonna be using the building, and how his designs might benefit them. While also adding in these amazing attributes to the building that give it a wonderful character. I really enjoy his earlier work because they all seem to be apart of the same family, despite their drastic differences. He turns these connecting areas in these buildings to have more meaning and thought to them, and not to just be cool and pretty. Also his very early work really look like apart of machines or kitchen appliances and I think that is a very fun way to upgrade a concrete building.
Exhibition Promotion Work:
Created by Alice Helfer for Shin Takamatsu. It's a book.
table of contents
This book created by Alice Helfer really helps illuminate the aspects of Takamatsu's visions for Architecture, while also going along with this futuristic design. She plays a lot with space, and each page has a certain color concept to go along with the certain project. Additionally she places with type placement and overlapping of text with image, very clean and geometrical, additionally plays with symmetry. Uses his illustrations in the whole book, does not really show realistic edited photos.
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