Word: tsukuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Once you've grabbed hold of a potential piece of business, never let it go, no matter what-even at the risk of your own life.") One piece of business that Nohmura is grabbing involves the $4 billion science and technology fair in Tsukuba in 1985. It will be needing giant tents to accommodate sightseers. The young executive is driven not only by his country's competitive culture but also by family ties. His father is the founder and chairman of the company, which had revenues last year of $106 million. "If I failed to do as well...
...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...
This rigorous training in adaptation is now beginning to free their creativity. Michitaka Yoshioka, 59, who also studied at Cranbrook, teaches product design at Tsukuba University and lectures in India and China, says much the same about schoolwork. He also says: "Industrial design is no longer a matter of form giving, sketching pretty forms on paper. The definition of design incorporates thinking and inventing. We must, for instance, think about ways to recycle appliances. Consumers should be able to dismantle big things like refrigerators into small, disposable parts, rather than leave them in the alley...