Image Gallery
21 images
Living National Treasure Serizawa Keisuke (1895–1984) used stencil-dyeing techniques to create irresistible works of art that range from screens and kimonos to book covers and magazine designs.
Multimedia: Video
Two of today's best-known international architects, César Pelli and Paul Tange, bring their insights from opposite points around the world.
Image Gallery
75 images
March 28, 2009
Check out our pictures from the KRAZY! Cosplay Party! Thanks to all the cosplayers!
Image Gallery
20 images
Drawn from a previously unknown private collection in Tokyo, Buriki focuses on toys made for the U.S. market during the 1950s and early 1960s, with the emphasis on models that celebrate, in faithful detail, the Golden Age of American automobile styling.
Image Gallery
9 images
A selection of images from artist Mitsuko Asakura who combines Japanese traditional dyeing and weaving with the techniques of Western tapestry.
Article
by Yasufumi Nakamori
Using the ephemeral and transcendental qualities of light, architect-artist Yumi Kori affects the way we see and feel the world. Her art installations and architecture challenge our conventional sense of space and the relationship of our physical “self” to the space around us.
Article
This discussion of contemporary design included graphic designer Kenya Hara, industrial designer Masamichi Udagawa, and Tatsuya Matsui, who designs humanoid robots. The panel was moderated by MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli.
Article
A discussion of the importance of craft and materials, including Kengo Kuma, Kengo Kuma Associates and Terunobu Fujimori, Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, moderated by Clifford Pearson, Senior Editor, Architectural Record.
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by Fumihiko Maki
Fumihiko Maki, winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1993 and founder of architecture firm Maki and Associates, discusses the relationship between technology and architecture.
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by Hiroyuki Suzuki
Architectural historian Hiroyuki Suzuki discusses current plans to develop Tokyo, comparing them to the “rescue construction works” implemented by village heads and nobles in the Edo period.
