computerized city

• author:
  Arata Isozaki

  related words:
  mirage city (author)
  actual city (author)
  transcendental city (author)
  mirage city (author)
  

  • echo:
    orn in 1931 in Oita, Japan; Arata Isozaki is on of several Japanese architects that have become internationally known. He attended Tokyo University and later worked and studied under Kenzo Tange. In 1963 he opened his own practice in Oita, Japan. Most of his work has been completed in Japan though he has ventured into other cultures. His boldness of form and color, his inventiveness and careful detailing have become a Isozaki trademark. Like other architects of Japan his spiritually powerful works are culturally influenced. His designs offer subtle irony and often have a definite sense of humor. In an attempt to integrate an imported culture, the west, with traditional beliefs, the ease, his buildings have a connection to the past but are not overcome by this trait. The use of these cultural elements often appear as metaphors that take form of poetics.His use of simple geometric forms provide a clear structural system and a high level of industrial craftsmanship in detail. He often uses the cube and the grid in minimalist fashions; his work is not arrogant it is simple yet bold. The barrel vaulted roof/ceiling is an Isozaki mainstay. He constructs masses juxtaposed with voids and softens hard edges with curves. He designs with an image in mind, a metaphor that is then transposed into a clean, colorful, pure and cerebral geometry.Through the use selected materials, textures, colors, and attractive forms his buildings have a strong visual composition that contrast and accents elegantly. He has said, architecture is an architects manipulation of forms."The use of light, forms, and volumes of space may be abstract at times and an abstraction of you mind at others. His works seem to have an underlying meaning, the works are lively and inviting. The interior spaces are very minimalist, the bare essentials and nothing more. A purist composition that offers neutral space to comprehend. Arata Isozaki’s designs are very sophisticated and detailed with great care. He sees architecture as a play of pure forms simultaneously containing economic, functional, technical, and a variety of other solutions. His contemporary style of architecture has brought him to the forefront of not only Japanese architecture but into the light of international architecture.1960 Oita Medical Hall Oita, Japan 1964 Makayama House Oita, Japan 1966 Oita Prefectural Library Oita, Japan 1971 Fukuoka City Bank Head Office Fukuoka, Japan 1974 Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Japan 1974 Kitakyushu Central Library Fukuoka, Japan 1974 Fujimi Country Clubhouse Oita, Japan 1975 Yano House Kawasaki, Japan 1978 Karashima House Oita, Japan 1983 Tsukuba Center Building Ibaragi, Japan 1984 Okanoyama Graphic Art Museum Hyogo, Japan 1985 The Palladium New York, NY 1986 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA 1987 Masashi-Kyuryo Country Clubhouse Saitma, Japan 1988 Hara Museum ARC Gunma, Japan 1989 Kashi Twin Towers, Fukuoka, Japan 1990 Art Tower Ibaragi, Japan 1990 International Friendship Pavilion Expo 90’ Osaka, Japan 1990 Team Disney Building Lake Buena Vista, FL 1990 Sant Jordi Sports Hall Barcelona, Spain 1990 The Washington International University in Virginia 1994 Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art Nagi, Japan 1996 Library Administration Bond University Queensland, Australia 1998 Science and Technology Center Columbus, OH 1998 World Architecture Triennale Nara, Japan

  • bibliography:
    Arata Isozaki. [London] : Architectural Design, [1977?]. Series title: AD profiles ; 1. Arata Isozaki / a coproduction of Michael Blackwood Productions, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Sveriges television AB/SVT. New York : Michael Blackwood Productions, c1985. [videocassette (58 min.)]. Arata Isozaki & Associates Tsukuba Center Building, Ibaraki, Japan, 1979-83 / edited and photographed by Yukio Futagawa ; text by Alessandro Mendini. Tokyo : A.D.A. Edita Tokyo, 1993. Barattucci, Brunilde. Arata Isozaki : architetture, 1959-1982 / Brunilde Barattucci, Bianca Di Russo. Roma : Officina, c1983. Bognar, Botond. Cultural patterns and the role of history in recent pluralistic architectural intentions : parallels and disparities in Charles Moore, Aldo Rossi and Arata Isozaki's architectures / (DISSERTATION) 1981. Drew, Philip. The architecture of Arata Isozaki / Philip Drew. London ; New York : Granada, 1982. Houses for sale : architects, Emilio Ambasz, Peter Eisenman, Vittorio Gregotti, Arata Isozaki, Charles Moore, Cesar Pelli, Cedric Price, Oswald Mathias Ungers / edited, with an introduction by B.J. Archer. New York : Rizzoli, 1980. Isamu Noguchi, Space of Akari & Stone. [Tokyo, Japan : Seibu Museum of Art, 1985]. Isozaki, Arata. Arata Isozaki / criticism by Kenneth Frampton ; edited and photographed by Yukio Futagawa = Isozaki Arata / henshu satsuei Futagawa Yukio ; ronbun Kenesu Furanputon. Tokyo : A.D.A. Edita, c1991- Isozaki, Arata. Arata Isozaki : architecture, 1960-1990 / preface by Richard Koshalek ; essays by Hajime Yatsuka and David B. Stewart. Los Angeles : Museum of Contemporary Art ; New York : Rizzoli, 1991. Isozaki, Arata. Arata Isozaki : Saturday, November 5 - Sunday, December 4, 1983, GA Gallery, Tokyo / Notes on the Work of Arata Isozaki: Paul Goldberger. Tokyo : GA Gallery, 1983. Isozaki, Arata. Arata Isozaki works 30 : architectural models, prints, drawings = Isozaki Arata no kenchiku 30 : mokei, hanga, doroingu / photographs of models by Yasuhiro Ishimoto. Tokyo : Rikuyu-sha, c1992. Isozaki, Arata. Barcelona drawings / Arata Isozaki. Barcelona : Editorial Gustavo Gilli, c1988. Isozaki, Arata. MOCA no tame no doroinggu 1981-1983 / Isozaki Arata ; [edited by Y. Shirakura]. Tokyo : Gatodo Gallery, c1983. Isozaki, Arata. Seikimatsu no shiso to kenchiku / Isozaki Arata, Taki Koji. Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten, 1989. Isozaki, Arata. Shuho ga / Isozaki Arata. Shinso. Tokyo : Bijutsu Shuppansha, 1984. Series title: Isozaki, Arata Isozaki Arata chosakushu. 1984 ; 3. Maki, Isozaki-New Public Architecture: Recent Projects by Fumihiko Maki and Arata Isozaki. [New York, New York : Japan House Gallery, 1985]. A New Brooklyn Museum : the master plan competition / edited by Joan Darragh ; foreword by Robert T. Buck ; introduction by Reyner Banham. New York : Brooklyn Museum : Rizzoli, 1988. New public architecture : recent projects / by Fumihiko Maki and Arata Isozaki ; [editor, Alexandra Munroe]. New York : Japan Society, [1985?]. Noffsinger, James Philip. Arata Isozaki, Japanese "avant garde" architect / James Philip Noffsinger. Monticello, Ill. : Vance Bibliographies, 1979. Il Polo Espositivo : un tema, due architetti : Arata Isozaki, Oswald Mathias Ungers : Firenze, Piazza SS. Annunziata 3 Giugno-3 Luglio 1988 : una selezione de opere di architettura / a cura di Gianni Pettena. Firenze : Electa Firenze, 1988. Richardson, Sara. Arata Isozaki : post-modern master / Sara S. Richardson. Monticello, Ill., USA : Vance Bibliographies, [c1987]. White, Anthony G. Arata Isozaki and Fumihiko Maki : a bibliographic update / Anthony G. White. Monticello, Ill., USA : Vance Bibliographies, [1990]. Series title: Architecture series--bibliography A 2369.

• quotation:
  "...This urban model extends the concept of computerization to the city scale, breaking up and reassembling a remarkable variety of preexisting institutions (...) In spatial therms what the institutions have in common prevails over the differences. By making this shared element omnipresent in the form of homogeneous, artificial space a spatial entity is produced..."

• definition:
  project by Arata Isozaki 1970-72
  • dictionary fragment:
    Main Entry: com·put·er·izePronunciation: k&m-'pyü-t&-"rIzFunction: transitive verbInflected Form(s): -ized; -iz·ingDate: 19571 : to carry out, control, or produce by means of a computer2 : to equip with computers3 a : to store in a computer b : to put in a form that a computer can use- com·put·er·iz·able /-"pyü-t&-'rI-z&-b&l/ adjective- com·put·er·i·za·tion /-"pyü-t&-r&-'zA-sh&n/ noun