| Title |
Architectural Strategy of Surprise Box in Modern and Contemporary Period |
| Keywords |
Marcel Duchamp ; Le Corbusier ; Alison/Peter Smithson ; Rem Koolhaas ; Herzog & de Meuron ; Jean Nouvel ; SANAA |
| Abstract |
The main purpose of this paper is to introduce the strategy of 'surprise box' in modern and contemporary architecture. The surprise box is against the architecture of absolute transparency. The outside reveal nothing. The hidden mystery can be discovered only when the inside is opened. In the case of Le Corbusier, Innovation trunk, that he considered like the surprise box, became the reference for an new architectural design. The astonishment, intentioned by the surprise box architecture, provoke the intensification of the perception, such as the lesson from the art of provocation of Marcel Duchamp and his objects. Alison and Peter Smithson manifest also "concealment and display", another expression of surprise box. The article also tries to analyze the selected examples of contemporary architects like Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, Jean Nouvel, SANAA, to show that the theoretical line continues and spreads now more than ever. |