ATELIER BOW-WOW – ECHO OF SPACE/SPACE OF ECHO

Description

What is the relationship between a specific physical environment, whether architectural, urban or natural, and how the occupants use, experience, develop and maintain a space? And which different rules and decisions shape a space and its particular use? These questions are the driving force behind Atelier Bow-Wow’s delightful and thought-provoking search for the harmonious balance between forms of being (physical space) and forms of doing (how space is occupied). Designed as a scrapbook containing a wide-ranging collection of ideas aimed at starting an exploration, the publication blends observations and comments with sketches and photographs.

CONTENTS

• Experience of Architecture, Echo of Space – Introduction – “Form of Being” / “Form of Doing” / Echo of Space
• Mask – Typology and Deformation / Architectural Rhetoric Shareable with Surroundings Environment / Responsibility towards Urban Landscapes
• Insect-Hunting – From Mechanistic Model to Biodiverse Model / Umwelt, Environmental Unit, and Urban Intelligence / The Made in Tokyo
• Animal Figures – Concreteness and Abstraction / Devising Materiality / Animated Expressions
• Dogs and Chairs – Format / Proportion / Performance
• Cleaning – Behaviors of Oil Drops / Affordance / Spatial Practice
• Sports Court – Creation of Local Rules, Hypotheses and Space / Visual Arts and Temporal Arts
• Roppongi Crossing – Mass Intelligence / Micro Public Space / Flux Management
• Freeloaders – Dialog between Multiple Frameworks for Various Subjects / Nonhuman Perception of Space / Tolerance
• Transfer – Spatial Flow / Image of the Public Space / From Space to Time / Architecture as a Temporal Vehicle
• Jig – From Tool to Jig / Animated Rearrangement of People and Objects / Ecology
• Architectural Generations – How to Read Chaotic Landscapes / Mixed Presence of Different Generations / Fourth-Generation Houses
• How to Park a Car – Handling of Cars in Residential Districts / Communality / Observation and Non-Embedment
• Intelligence of Buildings – Skin and Filling / Emergence of a Palazzo-like Contexts / Continuity, Repeatability
• Tokyo Monuments – Heroic Space / Gaps between Architecture and City Planning / Relocation to the River Sumida
• Internalization of Suburbias – From Suburbia to its Interiority / Geographical Features / Locality
• Behaviorial Form

140 pages / 15 x 21 cm / Japanese, English