ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 317

Thu Jan 11 12:30:51 PST 2007

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TOYO ITO INTERVIEW
    by Colin B. Liddell
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    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0110/culture_1-1.html

	Japanese architect Toyo Ito is credited with influencing 
    a generation of younger architects with his ideas about 
    contemporary urban forms. While presenting some of his recent
    work at an exhibition at the Tokyo Opera City Gallery, he spoke 
    with journalist Colin Liddell about his designs, his theories, 
    and their origin.  - Editor

	Colin Liddell:  In all your buildings, you seem to be
	trying to get away from straight lines. Do you hate
	straight lines?

	Toyo Ito:  I don't hate straight lines, but I have liked
	curved lines since I was a child. It's a bit like my
	character. When I talk, when I think, it's not in
	straight lines. It's a bit curved, it's soft, and in a
	way it resembles my inner character.

	Liddell:  Sometimes innovative works of architecture
	draw unlikely comparisons. Norman Foster's recent
	building in London is now popularly known as the "The
	Gherkin," and the Guggenheim Museum in New York is
	sometimes compared to a toilet. The models for your
	latest project, the Taichung Opera House, struck me as
	looking like large piece of cheese.

	Ito:  When you look at a cheese, the holes in the cheese
	are all compartments. They don't go through. But in
	this building, it's the opposite. All the holes go
	through, like in a cave. There's a continuity. And if
	you think about the human body as well, from the mouth
	all the way down to the ass, there's a continuity. It's
	a cave.
		... full story continues online (16 images, two free):
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Swiss Ambassador's Residence
    by William Lebovich
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0110/design_1-1.html

	The most unusual buildings in the U.S. capital city are
	often those erected by foreign governments for their
	embassies. Some are insipid interpretations of a
	country's architectural traditions. Others are inspired
	efforts to combine the best of a country's past
	architecture with cutting-edge trends.

	The new Swiss Ambassador's residence by Steven Holl
	Architects and Ruessli Architekten AG is in the latter
	category. I believe it is, despite some misdirection,
	among the most exciting and intellectually invigorating
	buildings in Washington, DC.
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GreenBuild Conference
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	The GreenBuild Conference, held in Denver, Colorado in
	November 2006, provided an important rallying of forces
	against global warming. Architects, builders,
	nongovernmental organizations, building product
	manufacturers, and other private companies gathered to
	announce ambitious plans for confronting the problem.
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