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Title: The Yokohama Project by Tomoko Sakamoto, Alberto Ferre, Michael Kubo ISBN: 8-4959511-8-5 Publisher: Actar Editorial Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Edge of the Amateur
Comment: The book is an inspiring and surprisingly honest account of the design and the construction of the Yokohama Terminal. The most optimistic part about it is the rather obvious fact that it was conceived and managed by a few academically rigorous but professionally inexperienced architects. The enormity of the project, the complexity of the structure, the problems of circulation, security, fire safety, seismic performance, etc. should all have choked the project before it even had reached the competition entry boards - the fact that it did not is an early tell-tale sign of the fresh naiveté, which must have fueled the design team.
The true merit of the team (and the story as whole) is the fact that the designers decided to go through with it. They moved to Japan and spent over two years and 23.5 billion yen supervising the project through construction administration. The writers talk as openly about their greatest successes and their worst failures.
The very extensive photographic documentation of the design and construction show the amazing story of the metamorphosis of an architectural idea into a material form. As I was reading thorough the text I saw myself picking favorite parts of the design and browsing impatiently ahead to see how they resolved themselves in the actual construction - sometimes I agreed with the chosen solution and sometimes I did not. The point is that the process of decision-making is revealed very clearly.
I would like to finish with a quote from the book, which offers a most delightful message to the youthful talent in all of us:
"This is where amateurs have advantage over pros. A pro knows what he can deliver and rarely goes beyond it. An amateur has no concept of his limitations and generally will go beyond them."
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Title: Phylogenesis foa's ark: foreign office architects by Sanford Kwinter, Mark Wigley, Detlef Mertins, Jeffrey Kipnis, Foa, Farshid Moussavi, Alejandro Zaera-Polo ISBN: 8495951479 Publisher: Actar Editorial Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio by Aaron Betsky, K. Michael Hays, Laurie Anderson ISBN: 0874271312 Publisher: Whitney Museum of Art Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: INDEX Architecture : A Columbia Architecture Book by Bernard Tschumi, Matthew Berman ISBN: 0262700956 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Blur: The Making of Nothing by Ricardo Scofidio, Elizabeth Diller ISBN: 0810921235 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Herzog & de Meuron: Natural History by Philip Herzog, Philip Ursprung, Phyllis Lambert, Kurt W. Forster, Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron ISBN: 3907078853 Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers Pub. Date: 15 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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