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...mere zero-sum stalemate, sensibility vs. sensibility ad infinitum. There is meaning to this madness. Masterly, highly original work is being produced by designers of all kinds. Arata Isozaki's Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is one of the most fetching new buildings in the U.S. Tadao Ando's severe, uncompromising architecture won him Europe's prestigious Alvar Aalto Prize last year, as well as the respect of young architects all over the world. Maki, an architect who has lived and worked in the U.S., thinks this is unquestionably the Japanese moment. Given the "exceedingly high level...
...Tadao Ando, 45, is the most influential figure among Japan's baby-boomer architects. Combative, ascetic, a radical traditionalist, he is the perfect maverick: after wandering across the U.S. in the '60s, he aspired to a professional boxing career before becoming an architect. He is something of a Zen zealot. He hates "automated buildings with all manner of electronic convenience." He hates posh materials. "Concrete, far cheaper than marble, can achieve a far greater spiritual sense of wealth," he says. Indeed, most of his 90 buildings are constructed of concrete. Ando is thus maintaining a tradition: large-scale modern buildings...
...more rewarding, Tsu has never had a strike; in fact, all of Japanese industry has been relatively strike free. When there is a strike in Japan, it usually begins on Saturday afternoon and ends Monday morning. "The basis of our labor relations is mutual trust," says Takeuchi. Adds Masao Ando, head of the company union: "We know that the health of the workers depends on the health of the company." Tsu is not only healthy but also highly productive; it requires only around 25 man-hours to mold each ton of steel into ships, compared with Sweden...
That she is not prepared, however, to abandon southward expansion, Lieut. Rianburo Ando, minister without port folio, revealed last night in predicting Japan will try to cut China's Burma Road and move into the Netherlands East Indies...
Before most Japanese were awake the nerve centres of their capital were thus in the hands of some 1,000 Army men, of whom the two highest in rank were one Captain Teruzo Ando and one Captain Shiro Nonaka. The dastards were most considerate of foreigners, not a single one of whom was molested in all Japan during last week's amazing 81 hours...