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Ishigami is one of my favorite architects and I recommend you check him out. I love these conceptual drawings he makes using plants define the architectural space. Two of my favorite buildings of his are the Kanagawa Institute of Technology Plaza and Workshop.
I think about the workshop a lot. Columns of varying sizes scatter through the open space on seemingly random points, inspired by constellations. Because the columns are stark white, from the pictures I've seen, it reads as a redactive collage where these thin bars remove parts of the image. The columns define spaces in the otherwise wall-less structure. The plaza similarly carves out spaces, but by using light and undulating surfaces.
Jun 29, 2024
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Favorite architect, still alive and teaching in Kyoto. His buildings are all formally bizarre in terms of structure and ratio and thereās a theory that him and other Japanese architects of his generation purposefully do not adhere to western architectural proportions and aesthetic ideals as a silent protest against the west because of the war and the nuclear fallout that many of them endured as children.Ā He is also a terrific fiction writer. Iāve been trying to get him to write for the magazine for some time now. Apparently he used to beat his employees with a T-ruler.
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as we all (pi fyi users) know, being into shit is cool.
iāve been thinking about how in the early days of facebook rather than liking pages you would ābecome a fanā of them and i just love that verbage. so sweet and precious
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As Perfectly Imperfect subscribers know, being into shit is cool. This was an early rec I made on the PI.FYI app, inspired by Facebookās ālikeā feature formerly being called ābecome a fanā because I find the verbiage so sweet and so supportive. Itāll always be way cooler to be an embarrassing superfan than to have 0 interests.Ā
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Get out of the house and be in the world but in a cozy, private kinda way. Life changing
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