ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 364

Fri Jan 18 11:54:01 PST 2008

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TALKING WITH TANIGUCHI
    by C. B. Liddell
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	Some Westerners, when faced with Oriental creativity,
	have a tendency to get a little carried away. Instead of
	a balanced, rational approach, a tendency emerges to
	ascribe the aesthetic effect of what they see to some
	mysterious, spiritual force that is absent from their
	own culture, whether it be called Zen, Tao, wabi-sabi,
	or yin and yang.

	This is, of course, the obverse side of the attitude
	that the Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said so
	scathingly exposed in his seminal work Orientalism
	(1978), which highlighted the ways that different
	cultures and societies distort and exoticize each other.

	Although misconceptions may actually add luster to his
	creations, Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi - most
	famous for his redesign of New York's Museum of Modern
	Art (MoMA), completed in 2004 - is keen to downplay such
	mystical elements in his work.

	For example, the perfectly balanced inverse relationship
	of the circle and the square in one of his earliest
	designs, the Shiseido Art Museum (1978), built for
	Japan's leading cosmetic company, seems an obvious echo
	of the ideal harmony between the masculine yang and
	feminine yin principles in Eastern thought.

	"I didn't have anything like that in mind," Taniguchi
	says. "But the museum consists of two parts: one end for
	the art gallery and one end to exhibit cosmetics and
	advertising posters. For the art gallery, I wanted to
	have gentler light, whereas for the other, where they
	exhibit cosmetics, I wanted stronger light from
	outside."
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Rebuilding Beaufort
    by Michael Cockram
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	Just north of London, off the M25 highway, a single large
	wind turbine reaches into the air and turns steadily
	above the bucolic English countryside. The turbine serves
	to generate power, and also as an emblem of the
	headquarters of the wind energy company Renewable Energy
	Systems (RES), set among the hedge rows and rolling hills
	of Hertfordshire.
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People and Places
    by Nancy Novitski
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	Wayne Troyer Architects in New Orleans, Louisiana --
	WWCOT in Granada Hills, California -- VOA Associates
	Incorporated in Milton, Florida -- Steven Ehrlich
	Architects in Irvine, California -- Blackney Hayes
	Architects in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- Frederick
	Fisher and Partners in Pasadena, California -- Thornton
	Tomasetti in New York, New York -- Sarah Wigglesworth
	Architects in London, England, United Kingdom -- Gerner
	Kronick + Valcarcel, Architects, PC in New York, New
	York -- Rockefeller Partners Architects in Los Angeles,
	California -- TBG in Austin, Texas -- KlingStubbins in
	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- da capo al fine architects
	in Herzogenaurach, Germany...
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