Category｜GA ARCHITECT
Language｜英語/日本語
Contents｜安藤忠雄作品集
Author｜安藤忠雄
Publisher｜A.D.A.EDITA Tokyo
Publication date｜1993/9/28
Type｜ソフトカバー
Pages｜226
Size｜310×300×23
Weight｜EEE
Price｜5980-ME-4600-(1000)-20210415
The Abbey Church at Senanque, Provence, which I visited many years ago, remains even now a vivid presence in my memory. It stood-in a valley in Avignon, France—within a rich profusion of lavender flowers, embraced as intimately by its site as if the site had been crafted for it.
Located far from human habitation, by Cistercian monks, in accordance with their rejection of worldly custom to seek God, the Abbey was pervaded within by infinitely taut, tranquil space. Its builders had been frugal to the point of extremity in their choice of materials, for the building was composed almost entirely of rough hewn stone. The form of the building similarly reflected their suppression of every urge to indulge in the arbitrary.
The source of their austerity was undoubtedly the Cistercian ideology—for these were monks who aspired to religious heights attainable only by entering totally into religious precepts and purifying the flesh. Even within the vast encompassing nature, however, I could not overlook the heights to which men―undaunted in will―might surmount. It was also then that the aspiration to pursue space—richly informed by resonant depth—took root within me.
引用｜TADAO ANDO 1988-1993 GA ARCHITECT 12
