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Jan 26, 2025
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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 thereโs 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. He is also a terrific fiction writer. Iโve 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.
May 10, 2023
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.
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