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Architectural metaphor cannot often be described as delicious. However Akihisa Hirata’s recent lecture, in the University of Auckland’s Communique series, showed that a good food analogy can be surprisingly illustrative. It seems that Hirata’s entire practice can be summed up in an image of a particular type of fish roe sushi, which demonstrates his central theory of ‘tangling’.
In times such as these it is interesting to look back on how practitioners have survived difficult times in the past. When Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein moved to Tokyo shortly after finishing their studies at the Royal College of Art in London, the economy seemed to be soaring and Japan was seen as the epicenter of that growth. Shortly after their immigration to Tokyo the bubble burst.
Momoyo Kaijima recently visited New Zealand where, amongst various speaking engagements and studio sessions, she spared some time to talk to Sarosh Mulla and Patrick Loo about teaching, clients and Bow-Wow.