Description
a+u has previously published two feature issues on the architecture of Toyo Ito – “Under Construction” (May 2004) and “Beyond the Image” (June 2005). This issue extends the series with a feature on projects by Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects that are currently under construction or about to break ground. Entitled “Architecture and Place”, it describes projects in six regions around the world: Taiwan (Taipei and Taichung), Spain (Barcelona and Madrid), the West Coast of the United States (Berkeley), Chile (Marbella), Singapore, and the Inland Sea of Japan (Imabari). In addition to details of the projects, we have included reports from the sites and photos of the buildings under construction. We have also included contributions from project architects in the office who have been active in these regions. Their candid descriptions of the rewards and challenges of working overseas offer a glimpse into the processes through which innovative architecture is realized.
The feature ends with a conversation moderated by Hironori Matsubara. It offers insights into the lithe but determined approach of an architectural office working in market economies where architecture is consumed as a good like any other. (a+u)
CONTENTS
- Preface: Architecture and Place – Toyo Ito
- Rintaro Yabe: Building in Taiwan
- Taichung Metropolitan Opera House
- National Taiwan University, New College of Social Sciences
- Songshan Tobacco Plant Culture Park
- Yutaka Kita: Building in Spain
- Extension for “The Fair of Barcelona Gran Via Venue” ＋ Torres Porta Fira
- Gavia Park
- Ryu Mitarai: Building on the West Coast of USA
- University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
- Isadora Droppelmann Lira: Building in Chile
- White O
- Yoshitaka Ihara: Building in Singapore
- VivoCity
- Belle Vue Residences
- Market Street Tower
- Michiko Okano: Building on an Island in the Seto Inland Sea
- Toyo Ito Architecture Museum in Imabari
- The New Deichman Main Library Competition in Oslo, Norway
- Conversation: Architecture and Place – Architecture Built by Dialogue
- Toyo Ito, Hironori Matsubara and staff architects at Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects / Toyohiko Kobayashi, Atsushi Ito, Yoshitaka Ihara, Rintaro Yabe, Ryu Mitarai, Michiko Okano
176 pages, color ills / 22 x 29 cm / Japanese, English
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