Request for Question Clarification by
tlspiegel-ga
on
04 Sep 2005 19:51 PDT
Hi pinklilbug,
I performed an extensive search and this all I've been able to find -
I hope it is satisfactory for you. If it is sufficient, please let me
know and I will post this information as the official answer to your
question.
Stone in 20th-Century Architecture
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/jo24/comments/stone.html
"Examples of the deliberate and didactic juxtaposition of stone with
more modern construction technologies include Álvaro Siza's Galician
Center for Contemporary Art (1994) in Santiago de Compostela, where
granite cladding rests on exposed steel channels and posts; and Herzog
and deMeuron's Stone House in Tavole, Italy (1982), in which a
slate-like rubble infill wall is contrasted with a rigorously
orthogonal exposed reinforced concrete frame."
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Builder & Engineer on-line
http://www.builderandengineer.co.uk/projects/commercial/developments/0802/p54sb0502_laban.html
"Unlike mystical architects"
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"who like to impact a message in their architecture, Herzog and de
Meuron do not imbue their buildings with any hidden meaning.
Instead, being at heart minimalists, they use materials and structures
for their aesthetic and functional value alone. A stone wall ? as at
their design of the Stonehouse Tavole in Basel (1985-1988) ? is simply
a stone wall and no less beautiful for it."
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Architects Shape the New Minneapolis: Jacques Herzog
https://www.mplib.org/architects_herzog.asp
Mack, Gerhard. Herzog & de Meuron: the Complete Works.
"After earning degrees in architecture from the Swiss Federal
Technical University in Zurich, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
established a partnership in Basel in 1978. Works from the years 1978
to 1988, including the "Lonely House" (Stone House in Tavole,
Italy)..."
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http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/demeuron/index.html
"Herzog & de Meuron received international attention very early in
their career with the Blue House (completed 1980) in Oberwil,
Switzerland; the Stone House in Tavole, Italy (1988).."
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Projects
http://users.design.ucla.edu/~jesscah/projects.htm
From the very beginning Herzog & de Meuron assign each project a number.
017 Stone House
Tavole/Italy
project 1982, realization 1985 -1988
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KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY - Landscape Architecture/Regional Planning
LECTURES ON "OUTSIDE/INSIDE: FIVE KEY DESIGN OPERATIONS
http://larcp.arch.ksu.edu/rfweb/lar500_s'02/lecture_notes/Lecture%2002%20Notes.doc
"An OPERATION is defined as a procedure or process of a technical
nature that constructs a specific mode of relation between elements.
The Five Operations of Design are:
Reciprocity; Materiality; Threshold; Insertion; and Infrastructure."
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"Materiality
The operation of materiality also seeks to express a positive and
meaningful relationship between architecture and landscape by various
means which go beyond the use of materials simply as decorative
aspects of the building and site. Since material is matter, both
man-made and natural, and both architecture and landscape architecture
reconfigure matter in the design and construction process, materiality
then is also about the way materials are used in architecture and
landscape.
Materiality in this sense can be used to represent landscape and site
in terms of how the materials or matter of a given region result from
natural ecological processes and cultural practices.
In this operation, several projects show how materiality joins with
reciprocity to express a sensitive relationship between site and
structure. Herzog and De Meuron?s Stone House in Tavole, Italy
illustrates the effective use of this operation in design. Both the
building and existing garden contribute to the same reading of the
site's existing terraced structures and dry-laid stone walls. Both
features are commonly used elements of the Italian landscape of this
region. The building's dialogue with the local stone, within a
reinforced concrete frame, offers a recognition of these historic
practices through the operation of materiality. This manner of the
use of local stone found on the site diminishes the reading of the
concrete's structural function and diverts attention to the stone, now
reassembled on the buildings facades like the dry-laid stone walls
found on the site.
Continuity between architecture and landscape also takes on more overt
physical expression, such as a topographical balance or equivalance
between interior floor and exterior ground. By locating the building
so that it engages one of the existing site terraces, the exterior
terrace becomes continuous with the existing topography of the site.
The continuity of the ground plane between inside and outside is then
restated by the pergola, which is the extension of the reinforced
concrete structure of the house beyond the facade. Resting directly
on the terrace, it joins ground with figure and site with
construction."
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http://www.aec.at/en/archives/festival_archive/festival_catalogs/festival_artikel.asp?iProjectID=8235
"To get back to stone as a rhetorical device, it is necessary here to
make reference to both Karljosef Schattner and the university
buildings in Eichstätt he planned in the early 1960s and the Tavole
House in Italy designed by Herzog & de Meuron in the 1980s. In both
buildings, the masonry works as a ?local? element and a reinforced
concrete frame as an ?international? element, playing on one another
in such a manner that both the wall and the frame have an almost
schizophrenic relationship to one another. As Wolfgang Pehnt (11) and
Alan Colquhoun (12) have already discussed at length elsewhere, it is
almost impossible to read the building as a synthesis. Just as the
arrangement and the joints in the dry stone walling still directly
allude to local conditions or an architectural tradition, so the
stringent geometry and materiality of the (reinforced concrete) frame
itself allude to its own cosmopolitan origins. This means that the
codes employed indeed fulfill their respective roles as references,
but they (quite deliberately) render impossible the construction of a
coherent reality."
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