Word: brobdingnag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work of Takefumi Aida, 50, is reminiscent of a particular kind of American postmodernism: the playful houses of California's Charles Moore, architecture as fun. Each of Aida's houses appears to be a sprawling stack of a child's multicolored building blocks in Brobdingnag -- simple rectangles, cylinders, triangles and crescents...
...mistaking them. Some look like a cake mold capable of turning out angel food for 2,500. Others look like a louvered back door from a tract house in Brobdingnag, or a creature from a 1950s horror movie-the wretched spawn of reckless radioactive experimentation, the amazing colossal sand dollar...