Toyo Ito, “What Was Metabolism? Reflections on the Life of Kiyonori Kikutake”
The Metabolist Movement in the 1960s established the foundation from which contemporary architecture in Japan…
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Tectonic Visions Between Land & Sea: Works of Kiyonori Kikutake
For more than half a century, visionary architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928–2011) pursued Metabolic architecture, embracing forces of renewal, recycling, and transformation. Following the debut of his Sky House and Marine City at the 1959 C.I.A.M. (Congrès Internationale d’Architecture Moderne) Conference in Otterloo in the Netherlands,…
Sanriku Project, Minamisanriku, Japan
A year out from last year’s tsunami, attitudes were very different. As part of the…
Digital Archaeology: Unearthing Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel, Part I
This project began from a simple idea: to explore how the latest generation of…
Digital Archaeology: Unearthing Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel, Part II
This project began from a simple idea: to explore how the latest generation of modeling…
Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) presents the first mono-graphic exhibition on Kenzo Tange in the United States: Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive. It is the first comprehensive exhibition on Tange anywhere in the world in more than twenty years.
Distillations: Gropius_Japan_1954
You cannot imagine what it meant to me to come suddenly face to face with these houses, with a culture still alive, which in the past had already found the answer to many of our modern requirements of simplicity, of outdoor-indoor relations, of modular coordination,…
Yokohama International Port Terminal
The Yokohama International Port Terminal disrupts the sense of monumentality that typifies passenger port…