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Japanese Design Special - Terunobu Fujimori/Tomo Azumi/Felix Claus
A Japanese thread connects the features in February’s Blueprint. For the cover story, the Anglo-Japanese team of Edmund and Yuki Sumner meet historian/ teacher-turned-architect Terunobu Fujimori, whose ‘fondness for the incidental’ produces light-hearted and rebellious designs as a counterpoint to the clean-line stereotype of Modern Japanese Architecture.
Meanwhile in London…Tomoko Azumi - the interior architect designing the entire furniture consignment for the Supreme Court in Parliament Square - talks to Caroline Roux about the trials of making a design career abroad, of learning the British way, and the perspective she has gained on the Japanese way.
Felix Claus, European architect, expounds the joys of practicing in Japan, taking the design and construction of his own bijoux Tokyo townhouse - unfettered by European planning constraints - as a case study.
Also in this issue: Patrick Myles skims off the best from Tokyo Design Week; Simon McBurney returns to Tanizaki with theatre group Complicite’s new performance at the Barbican; two sides of the immigration coin are examined by Manick Govinda in Comment and by Paul Virilio’s exhibition at the Fondation Cartier; the common activity of drinking in London and Tokyo is highlighted in Takayo Akiyama’s Paper City; and former Blueprint Art Director Junko Fuwa sends us A Letter from Tokyo. |