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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:47:14 +0530
By Thomas Daniell
The floor of the main space is a field of undulating white dunes. It has
been almost a decade since Toyo Ito began to publicly express concern
about his influence on the younger generation of Japanese architects.
Ito is deservedly celebrated for his embrace of the effects of
electronic and information technology on the contemporary city, his
theorization of the concomitant effects on human life as a 'virtual
body,' and of course his poetic built expressions of transparency and
weightlessness. Yet in 1998, he published an essay critical of the
anemic minimalism of new Japanese architecture that included this admission:
'Of course, many of these characteristics apply to my own architecture,
and I am aware that due to my advocacy of lightness, ephemerality and
transparency, I must bear some of the responsibility for this syndrome
among my colleagues born only twenty years after me.'
cont'd....
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