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.
I'm not American and even though I have pretty decent English I recently discovered I've been pronouncing 'cucumber' wrong my whole life. koo-kuh-mber insted of q-cumber. isn't that more fun tho??? after much reflection I've decided I will keep saying it the wrong way bc it makes me feel like a Brazilian Sofia Vergara or something.
fucc the rules. embrace your wrong pronunciation of cucumber
