Building Tama Art University Library
Architects Toyo Ito & Associates Architects
Project Team Toyo Ito, Takeo Higashi, Hideyuki Nakayama, Yoshitaka Ihara
Program Educational Building
Structural Engineer Sasaki Structural Consultants [MORE...]

Interview with Japanese Architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto [1965-] principal of Atelier Bow-Wow since 1992, along with partner and wife Momoyo Kaijima [1969-]. He graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology after working several years at Kazunari Sakamoto Architectural Laboratory and has been teaching there since 2000. [MORE...]

Building Hhstyle Shop
Architects Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
Project Team Koichiro Tokimori, Toshihiro Nishimura
Program Retail Building
Structural Engineer Sasaki Structural Consultants
Construction Taisei Construction Co. Ltd. [MORE...]

Building SIA Aoyama Building
Architects Jun Aoki & Associates
Program Office Building
Structural Engineer Kajima Design, Kanebako Structural Engineers
Client Simplex Investment Advisors Inc. [MORE...]

Interview with Tokyo architect Junya Ishigami [1974-].

Ishigami-san worked four years with Kazuyo Sejima / SANAA right after graduating from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts. Afterwards in 2004 he established Junya Ishigami and Associates, mainly focusing on private commisions of architecture and product design. [MORE...]

Building Tama Art University Library
Architects Toyo Ito & Associates Architects
Project Team Toyo Ito, Takeo Higashi, Hideyuki Nakayama, Yoshitaka Ihara
Program Educational Building
Structural Engineer Sasaki Structural Consultants [MORE...]

In this last episode with Atelier Bow-Wow’s co-director he speaks about Graphic Anatomy [TOTO, 2007] and how important is to know how to represent space in use, in all its levels. Overdrawn or not, Tsukamoto explains how space has to be understood in terms of the relationship between human behavior and physical reality. [MORE...]

In this third chapter with Tsukamoto-san from Atelier Bow-Wow he describes his particular aproach on Metabolism -Void Metabolism- and how this theory nurtures the scale shift of his own practice.

Afterwards he continues defending architectural tools in his continuous research about behavior and space -since we’re no scientists, it’s all about trial and error. [MORE...]