Acknowledgement
Any kind of meeting involves acknowledgement, whether it be between two people, two cultures or two materials in an architectural joint....
Bamboo 1: structure
Ta-ke 1: structure Bamboo -one of the central subjects of our research here- has an uncertain place in the built world in Japan. In...
'Our sensitivities are killed by concrete:' interview with Kengo Kuma
Kengo Kuma’s international celebrity and astonishing quantity of commissions has -in my opinion- generated a simplistic and false view of...
Akira Kuzumi, superstar plaster craftsman
Japan remains the global apex of plaster and earth construction, a tradition which is as ephemeral as the people who carry it. There are...
Boundaries: face, feet, skin, fence
It is the privileged condition of the new visitor to notice the obvious -which soon becomes background. Sometimes the obvious carries...