Den Nen Architecture based in Kyoto was founded by architects Yasushi Mizuta and Naohiro Sumi. The name of their firm “Den Nen” derives from Kansai (Kyoto, Osaka region) dialect ‘desunen’ or ‘dennen’, which means ‘am’, ‘is’ or ‘are’ Continue Reading…
この章が一番面白い。物語で言うと「ヤマ」にあたるのが、第三章だろう。章のタイトルを見て、1986年に発表されたシンディ・ローパーの２枚目のアルバムのタイトル曲をすぐに思い出せる方はどれぐらいいるだろう Continue Reading…
今週は忙しかったので、建築本“Strike a Pose” 第三章のレヴューはお休み。そのかわり、昔々、安藤忠雄氏に初めてお会いした頃、建築を「生きるか死ぬか」という表現で話されていたことをふと思い出したので、今日から全米で公開されるマイク・タイソンのドキュメンタリーフィルムのムービートレイラーを御紹介。残念ながらここにあるものは、米国でしか見ることのできない設定になっているので、この映画に興味のある方は、映画のオフィシャルサイトを御覧あれ。
A long time ago, Tadao Ando once told me about a similarity between boxing and architecture. He was a young (I was like a kid still…) and extremely intense man with a threatening gaze. Basically Ando was trying to tell me that one needs to approach architecture like its do or die… heww, what a view on architecture.
I had no interest in martial arts of any kind around that time, but was intrigued by a nineteen year old kid named Mike Tyson that I saw on TV one day. I started to follow his every fight on TV. This documentary film which opens today shows many clips from that time as well as some people like Teddy Atlas, Mitch “Blood” Green I got to know later at the gym in Brooklyn.
Tyson was AWESOME. So was Ando… but I am having a hard time finding any commonality between boxing and architecture.
The images here show the shakanayarchitect’s contemporary take on a Japanese house Continue Reading…
Of course one would expect a shakanyarchitect (a traditional Japanese plasterer turned architect) to work on a house like this Continue Reading…
Here’s a three dimensional collage by the “shakanyarchitect” mentioned in yesterday’s post Continue Reading…
