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...summer not to prevent being bitten by an insect but to avoid squashing one inadvertently while he slept. The Japanese, though, have never been passive conservationists. Consider the bonsai, the tiny trees that are shaped over generations into living pieces of sculpture. The bonsai represent the landscape architect's respect for nature, but also the notion that nature is at its best when shaped by the hand...
...quiet, gray city of Toronto gets a blast of flamboyant eccentricity in architect Douglas Cardinal's immense and curvaceous Museum of Civilization...
AGAINST NATURE: JAPANESE ART IN THE EIGHTIES, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Architect Arata Isozaki and fashion designer Issey Miyake are famous abroad, but contemporary visual art from Japan is still little known in the West. The first major U.S. museum show from Japan in more than 20 years brings American audiences up-to-date with a survey of new work from the cultural center of East Asia. Through...
Despite the overall similarity, the Yamoussoukro structure is not really an enlarged replica of St. Peter's. Designed by architect Pierre Fakhoury, 45, an Ivory Coaster of Lebanese ancestry, the basilica has no paintings, statues, wooden paneling, tapestries or carvings. Instead, the building, buttressed by 60 interior columns, serves as a gallery for 36 immense, hand-blown stained- glass windows. In a brilliant conception, hundreds of colors splash across the nave in patterns that change throughout the day. "It is the church of light," says a mason at the site, "the light of God." The basilica, which is entered from...
Nakashima appreciates the attention, but accolades run against his self- effacing grain. Trained as an architect at M.I.T., he took up furniture making after studying with spiritual leader Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry, India, during the 1930s. "The negation of the ego," says Nakashima, "is central in Indian philosophy. If you can negate your ego, you can develop." During World War II, Nakashima advanced his craft in an Idaho detention camp for Japanese Americans. There he learned about prejudice. He also learned woodworking from a fellow internee who had been trained as a carpenter in Japan...