So I went to an island, taking airplane, train, bus, cab, and boat. It's a resort island where people from various countries come to enjoy modern arts and fine architecutres, but in the middle of winter it is a quiet and tranquil place. Sometimes we are asked "which do you prefer sea or mountain?" Everytime I answer that I take mountain because I like green woods and find no specific reason to like sea. But I got to know why people love sea. It's an infinite open space.
The island is famous for concrete architectures by Tadao Ando. Concrete wall, concrete floor, conrete ceiling, concrete stairs, concrete corridor, concrete everything. Even though I adore modernism I imagined that it might be like a prison cell.
No! it was beyond my imagination. Concrete is such an interesting material. It gives the richest effect to the architecture. It shows dramatically opposite expressions like ---massive but light, dark but light, cool but warm, heavy but smooth, solid but gentle, solemn but modern, all over grey but transparent as if it fades into the air and doesn't exist. I thought a city of concrete building that most of the modernism architect in 20th century dreamed would be possible if this material is properly used.
Thankful to the experience and discovery, I'm thinking I'll set next course to Chicago, Helsinki, Paris, Honolulu...
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