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.
Favorite architect, still alive and teaching in Kyoto. His buildings are all formally bizarre in terms of structure and ratio and there’s 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. I’ve 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.
as we all (pi fyi users) know, being into shit is cool.
i’ve been thinking about how in the early days of facebook rather than liking pages you would “become a fan” of them and i just love that verbage. so sweet and precious
