Word: isozaki
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some 50 pieces was unveiled earlier this fall at Marshall Field's in Chicago; two of the architects, Richard Meier and Stanley Tigerman, attended to show off their handiwork. (The others displaying works: Charles Gwathmey, Robert Siegel, Laurinda Spear, Robert A.M. Stern, Robert Venturi, Japan's Arata Isozaki.) The designs are already a commercial as well as aesthetic success. At Field's the china is moving briskly, and some of the silverware sold out within four days. Major department stores in eight other cities across the U.S. are experiencing equally encouraging sales and have reordered. In addition...
...Japanese quotations, done in reinforced concrete. Since then a generation of architects-some of them Tange's former students at Tokyo University-has proved less interested in formal revivalism than in a more conceptual relationship to their heritage. Outstanding among these (but still, one among several) is Arata Isozaki, 52, whose as yet unbuilt design for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles may turn out to be the most remarkable building conceived by a Japanese architect in the West. Isozaki's relation to the Japanese past is denned by what he calls "basic continuities-ideas about...
...prestige Isozaki and his colleagues have in Japan mirrors (and was certainly increased by) the rise of American architects such as Richard Meier and Michael Graves as stars. On the other hand, no American clothes designer has-or deserves-the kind of cultural importance in the U.S. that Issey Miyake, 45, has achieved in Japan. Miyake possesses a remarkable gift for condensing a long craft tradition relating to textiles, ceremony and theater into fresh but amenable images of the body, without the condescension and puppeteering that so often accompanies high fashion in the West...
...brief moment in the 1960s, a group of architects inspired by Kenzo Tange and calling themselves Metabolists schemed to escape the mess with Utopian megastructures built into the sky or the sea. Having come back to earth, ex-Metabolists Fumihiko Maki, 54, and Arata Isozaki, 52, Japan's leading architects today, now seek to harmonize and integrate new and old architecture. In spirit, the old and the new have never been far apart. "We never saw the conflict that still seems to bother people in the West," says Nobaki Furuya, an architecture student at Waseda University. "We never...
...contrast to Maki's rational restraint, Isozaki's new civic center in Tsukuba, "science city," looks, positively baroque in its exuberance. It consists of a 1,200-seat symphony hall, convention facilities and a 15-story hotel tower, circling a sunken court lined with shops. The rock garden and waterfall are stylized Japanese. The architecture is playful postmodern with the now standard affectations and allusions to Palladian renaissance. But Isozaki's stylishness is not random. Only a Japanese architect and his craftsmen could use materials as diverse as titanium-glazed tile, glass terrazzo, onyx, inlaid marble...