The search for Solar Architecture in Asia in the works of the architect Antonin Raymond a protracted balance between culture and nature

The renowned architect Antonin Raymond undertook a large amount of work in Japan for more than fifty years. He arrived to the archipelago as a partner to Frank Lloyd Wright, who had received the commission for the paramount Imperial Hotel. Nevertheless, Raymond became almost revolutionary in that co...

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Autores: Almodóvar Melendo, José Manuel, Rodríguez-Cunill, Inmaculada, Cabeza Laínez, José María
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/145525
https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12101514
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Palabra clave:Antonin Raymond
Japanese vernacular
Environmental design
Solar design and architecture
Philosophical Daoism
Modern design for warm latitudes
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spelling The search for Solar Architecture in Asia in the works of the architect Antonin Raymond a protracted balance between culture and natureAlmodóvar Melendo, José ManuelRodríguez-Cunill, InmaculadaCabeza Laínez, José MaríaAntonin RaymondJapanese vernacularEnvironmental designSolar design and architecturePhilosophical DaoismModern design for warm latitudesThe renowned architect Antonin Raymond undertook a large amount of work in Japan for more than fifty years. He arrived to the archipelago as a partner to Frank Lloyd Wright, who had received the commission for the paramount Imperial Hotel. Nevertheless, Raymond became almost revolutionary in that country for his realizations of projects and buildings. Simultaneously, he pioneered the concept of solar houses, a notion that proved to be fundamental for bioclimatic design. Raymond realized that because of the influence of geomancy and Daoism, the buildings of Japan had a sort of cosmic link, especially to the sun and the seasons, and in this way, he took great concern with solar exposure, shading, and daylighting, both in the way in which they were composed and also in the materials that were employed, such as lumber, reed roofs, and paper screens. We have tried to identify these trends in his most significant buildings and establish a sequence of how they evolved towards a contemporary and truly sustainable design. The main result presented is that for the reasons presented, Raymond influenced a number of celebrated architects in Japan, India, and the USA. In fact, instead of pursuing the pure abstract minimalism common in his epoch, he made use of the ideas of naturalism in architecture, which in the case of Asia were related to ritual cosmology. In this article, we have outlined how such a procedure was possible and what it entailed for complex domains such as sun-lighting and daylighting, ventilation, acoustics, and re-interpretation of vernacular architecture. The connection with the main forces of the environment, which effectively interact through architecture, when considered from a philosophical and even spiritual point of view as he did, resulted in a kind of artistic revitalization of traditions belonging to Daoism and Shintoism and inaugurated a new manner of sustainable thinking for the building profession that endures today.MDPIHistoria, Teoría y Composición ArquitectónicasPinturaRNM162: Composición, Arquitectura y Medio AmbienteHUM384: Teoría y Tecnología de la Comunicación2022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/11441/145525https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12101514reponame:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevillainstname:Universidad de Sevilla (US)InglésBuildings, 12 (1514).https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/12/10/1514info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:idus.us.es:11441/1455252026-06-17T12:51:07Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The search for Solar Architecture in Asia in the works of the architect Antonin Raymond a protracted balance between culture and nature
title The search for Solar Architecture in Asia in the works of the architect Antonin Raymond a protracted balance between culture and nature
spellingShingle The search for Solar Architecture in Asia in the works of the architect Antonin Raymond a protracted balance between culture and nature
Almodóvar Melendo, José Manuel
Antonin Raymond
Japanese vernacular
Environmental design
Solar design and architecture
Philosophical Daoism
Modern design for warm latitudes
title_short The search for Solar Architecture in Asia in the works of the architect Antonin Raymond a protracted balance between culture and nature
title_full The search for Solar Architecture in Asia in the works of the architect Antonin Raymond a protracted balance between culture and nature
title_fullStr The search for Solar Architecture in Asia in the works of the architect Antonin Raymond a protracted balance between culture and nature
title_full_unstemmed The search for Solar Architecture in Asia in the works of the architect Antonin Raymond a protracted balance between culture and nature
title_sort The search for Solar Architecture in Asia in the works of the architect Antonin Raymond a protracted balance between culture and nature
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Almodóvar Melendo, José Manuel
Rodríguez-Cunill, Inmaculada
Cabeza Laínez, José María
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Rodríguez-Cunill, Inmaculada
Cabeza Laínez, José María
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Cabeza Laínez, José María
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HUM384: Teoría y Tecnología de la Comunicación
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Antonin Raymond
Japanese vernacular
Environmental design
Solar design and architecture
Philosophical Daoism
Modern design for warm latitudes
topic Antonin Raymond
Japanese vernacular
Environmental design
Solar design and architecture
Philosophical Daoism
Modern design for warm latitudes
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