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Architect and Project Professor at The University of Tokyo, Fumio Matsumoto put together more than 30 iconic buildings into a single 3D printed object called, “Memories of Architecture.” Façades, exterior forms, interior spaces, and structures of significant architectural works were reproduced at 1:300 scale and merged together in order from old to new.
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By integrating architectural elements from ancient Egypt to the present age, notable trends over time emerge. Memories of Architecture demonstrates a shift from large to small forms and from enclosed to open spaces. The architecture in this 3D collage includes Karnak Temple, the Pantheon, Notre-Dame de Reims, Nandaimon Gate of Todaiji Temple, Villa Savoye, and the Moriyama House.
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“Memories of Architecture” is part of “ARCHITECTONICA,” a permanent exhibit in the Koishikawa Annex at the University of Tokyo Museum of Architecture. The museum showcases architectural materials, miniature models and life-sized ethnological materials relating to space around the body.
Projects embedded in “Memories of Architecture” include:
- Karnak Temple (hypostyle hall and pylon), Egypt, 18th-12th centuries BC
- Persepolis (The Throne Hall), Iran, 520-330 BC
- Parthenon (colonnade), Greece, 447-431 BC, Pheidias, Ictinus, Callicrates
- Pergamon (retaining wall), Turkey, 3rd-2nd centuries BC
- Pont du Gard (three rows of arches), France, 19 BC
- Colosseo (exterior wall), Italy, 70-80
- Pantheon (dome), Italy, 118-128, Hadrianus
- Villa Adriana (wall of Poikile), Italy, 118-138, Hadrianus
- Casa di Diana (exterior wall), Italy, mid-2nd century
- Nandaimon Gate of Todaiji Temple (Daibutsuyo-style structure), Japan, 1199, Chōgen
- Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Reims (nave), France, 1211-1311, Jean d'Orbais
- Sainte Chapelle (buttress), France, 1242-1248
- Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore (drum opening), Italy, 1296-1436, Giovanni di Lapo, Filippo Brunelleschi and others
- Palazzo Ducale, Venezia (colonnade), Italy, 14-15C
- Basilica di Sant'Andrea (façade), Italy, 1471-1512, Leon Battista Alberti
- Palazzo Farnese (exterior wall), Italy, 1530-1546, Antonio da Sangallo il Giovane, Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Basilica Palladiana (colonnade), Italy, 1549-1614, Andrea Palladio
- Monasterio de El Escorial (exterior wall), Spain, 1582, Juan Bautista de Toledo
- Katsura Imperial Villa (Shingoten), Japan, 1615-1663, Hachijonomiya Toshihito / Toshitada
- Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève (reading room), France, 1843-1850, Henri Labrouste
- Reliance Building (bay window), USA, 1890-1895, John Root, Charles B. Atwood
- Bauhaus Dessau (curtain wall), Germany, 1925, Walter Gropius
- Villa Savoye (pilotis), France, 1931, Le Corbusier
- Johnson Wax Headquarters (workroom), USA, 1939, Frank Lloyd Wright
- Kunio Maekawa House (gable roof), Japan, 1942, Kunio Maekawa
- Farnsworth House (universal space), USA, 1951, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Makoto Masuzawa House (minimal house), Japan, 1952, Makoto Masuzawa
- Sky House (Elevated floor), Japan, 1958, Kiyonori Kikutake
- Gallaratese Housings (colonnade), Italy, 1969-1974, Aldo Rossi, Carlo Aymonino
- Moriyama House (small boxes), Japan, 2005, Ryue Nishizawa