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(From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI))
Byline: Hasegawa Itsuko
When I took a trip to Europe right after finishing university, I began to strongly question the modern architectural style, which has developed based on the idea that "less is more." In 1968, the year I started graduate studies at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, an article in the Austrian magazine, Bau, about Hans Hollein's revolutionary new thesis that "Alles ist Architektur" (Everything is Architecture) had a huge impact on me. His words could be taken as a denial of Modernism, and I soon felt that architecture included non-material things like air and states of being. In ...