Kurashiki City Hall
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| Kurashiki City Hall | |
| Designer | Kenzo Tange |
| Location | Kurashiki, Japan |
| Date | 1960 |
| Building Type | government center, city hall |
| Climate | humid subtropical |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
| Street Address | 2-6-1 Chuo Walk Score |
| Notes | Compact massing, expressed concrete frame. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Kurashiki_City_Hall.html |
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This exposed concrete box articulated with horizontal, sun-shielding windows, sits in modern contrast to the traditionally bound city it serves. Progress and expansion were accounted for when the facilities were erected in 1960, planning for a future municipality of 150,000 inhabitants. Facilities include a public assembly hall, offices, meeting rooms, and the mayor's office.
—Darlene Levy. drawn from Udo Kultermann. Kenzo Tange: Works and Projects. p86.
The Creator's Words
"...modern architecture and Japanese traditional architecture have common characteristics— simplicity, standardization, openness, spaciousness and lightness...Simplicity or standardization means sometimes the formalistic. Openness of lightness means sometimes weakness, yes weakness, for example, against weather and climate.—Now, lightness or openness of spaciousness in the physical and psychological meaning cannot satisfy peoples' energy or desires. They want more eternal or more durable feeling. They do not want weakness or tentativeness, but this weak and tentative feeling that we have in modern architecture of the world. Architecture always should be a reflection or expression of social structure."
—Kenzo Tange. from Udo Kultermann, ed. Kenzo Tange: 1946-1969 Architecture and Urban Design. p9.
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Udo Kultermann. Kenzo Tange: Works and Projects. 1st spanish/english edition. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, S.A., 1989. ISBN 84-252-1400-9. NA1559.T33K83 1989. p86.
Udo Kultermann, ed. Kenzo Tange: Architecture and Urban Design, 1946-1969. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. LC 70-111288. NA1559.T33K8 1970. p9. photo of stairway and hall to main level, p97.
John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1975. exterior photo, p263.Reprint edition: Da Capo Press, April 1991. ISBN 0-3068-0436-0. — An accessible, inspiring and informative overview of world architecture, with lots of full-color cutaway drawings, and clear explanations. Available at Amazon.com
Paolo Riani. Kenzo Tange. Twentieth century masters. London, New York: The Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1970. Color plate of exterior, f27.
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