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For additional than Xx years, a Tokyo designer Masahiro Chatani, using origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper-folding - and adding cut-paper and pop-higher paper engineering concepts - has been creating works of origamic architecture. He is considered a leading practician of the art. Supplementary than Hundred works by Chatani, his colleagues Keiko Nakazawthe & Takaaki Kihara, & more creative person from either around the area of the world come featured first in a major Our contries exhibition. A creative person therewithin startling installation use at times reproduced - in sizes from either either diminutive to big-shell - cases that range from globe-famous architecture to flowers, animate being, abstract geometrics & everyday objects. Recreations of crucial architectural monuments include Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, Wright's have home & studio, a Guggenheim Museum and Robie House; a Cathedral of Notre Dame; the Eiffel Tower and the Sydney Opera House. Additionally, heavy-shell, interactional, folding, pop-higher buildings, commissioned expressly for a exhibition, encourage directly viewer participation using the works. At another time capricious & profound, origamic architecture is an piquant record of the originative run, across which apparently unimportant materials, prefer plainly paper, come transformed by creative person into elegant, dynamic & poetic objects. When little & intimate, these works turn into truly monumental within my imaginations. | |
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KSK's Origamic Architecture Many pictures and tips as well as a list of books by Chatani and Nakazawa and published articles about the craft. Vanessa's Origamic Architecture A companion website to Marivi's Origamic Architecture. Maintained by Marivi's daughter, and includes several pictures of cards. Evermore Origamic Architecture Features a gallery, extensive news and links pages, a book listing, and a few patterns. Home of the Origamic Architecture Maillist. David Hathaway's Origamic Architecture Pattern of the Tate Modern in London. Magda's Origamic Architecture Contains galleries of primarily geometrical origamic architecture as well as links. Virtual Gallery of Origamic Architecture Gallery of many models folded by Gerry Stormer, a diagram entitled "Diego's Dreams," and links. Marivi's Origamic Architecture Many elaborate card designs, featuring models based upon the architecture of Gaudi. Also includes instructions and a section on Heraldic Origamic Architecture. Willem's Origamic Architecture Offers patterns from Europe and Asia. Also includes holiday cards, instructions, and links. Baud & Bui Origamic Architecture Includes several paper and plastic arts in addition to origamic architecture. There are several pictures and patterns available as well as a biography of O.A. creator Masahiro Chatani. Handmade Papercraft Club Contains a wide variety of pictures and patterns of O.A., from a hippo in a bathtub to socks. Also contains instructions (in Japanese) with diagrams. |
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