The regeneration of Naoshima, a small island on Seto Inland Sea, is a cultural project that was launched in the second half of the 1980s. The first building within this initiative was Benesse House Museum, an ‘overnight stay’ museum that includes lod
Located in the provincial city of Kumamoto, the dormitory serves as home for eighty women during their first year as employees of a local company. Their stay here, understood as an extension of the training experience of the young employees, is refle
Vicente Díez Faixat Un recinto cerrado durante la celebración de los partidos. La solución consistió en la creación de un esquema de ‘arenadual’ (dos campos de juego, exterior e interior, que pueden situarse uno al lado del otro) y en la introducción
Carlos Verdaguer Enfrentada a una cada vez más acuciante crisis económica y a un irreversible proceso de occidentalización, la opulenta sociedad japonesa está empezando a poner en cuestión un modelo de crecimiento desmesurado y desordenado, cuyos efe
Kisho Kurokawa (1934) belongs to what we could call the fourth generation of twentieth-century architects, disciples of what Sigfried Giedion called the “Third Generation” and who began to develop their work in the sixties. Specifically, Kurokawa wor
