Architect-Designed Birdhouses

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Tadao Ando

Peter Eisenman

Tadao Ando
(Japan)

Daniel Libeskind

Born in 1941, in Osaka, Japan. He became the first Japanese, in 1985, to win the Alvar Aalto Medal from the Association of Finnish Architects. In 1989, he won the Gold Medal of the French Architecture Academy Award, and also the 1st Carlsberg Architectural Prize of Denmark, and many other awards. His most recent works include the Japanese government booth at the Expo' Seville in 1992, and the Naoshima-island contemporary art museum in Japan.

Neil M. Denari

At first, "Birdhouse" was not for birds because it was originally meant to detain birds to utilize them for pest control in agriculture.But the birdhouse here is provided exclusively for birds.Everything about this work is left in the hands of people who "observe" it.A three-dimensional grid, a simple geometric shape.The size of the grid fluctuates depending on who observes it, thus it frees the birds from the curse of imprisonment and exploitation.With the involvement of nature with the birdhouse, and the addition of three-dimensional movement of the birds, an abstract structure like three-dimensional grid starts to fluctuate and have concreteness.The birds will gather around this "birdhouse" to make it their home, and fly freely inside. And they will soar into the blue vault of heaven in search of freedom.