Built form in Koshirakura, an Activity Centre and Speed Reading Urban Design in Yokohama

The site was a small hill village in Kawanishi, a historic samurai hill village in west Japan. The project to site and build a protective shelter to endure severe snowfall housing young children waiting for the school bus. More than a bus shelter this became an activity centre. John’s contribution was substantial, including design site and construction decisions and ordering materials. The project included John filming interviews with the clients. John also appeared to win a ceremonial wrestling contest chosen to represent the Architectural Association, filmed by National Television. The project was written up in AA Files 41, Kawanishi Landscape Workshop 1996-99 by Shin Egashira. The bus shelter is in use and is serviced annually by Yasu Kawasaki

Concrete Geometries Research Cluster: the relational in architecture [group exhibition]

Concrete Geometries is a research initiative at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. Over the past 18 months we have been focusing on collecting, evaluating and discussing work that critically explores the immediate relationship between architectural form and human processes. This ongoing research explores how geometric aspects of space such as size, shape or relative position of form and figures might be perceived by individuals or collectives and influence their behaviour, not in an abstract sense but in ways that are real.The title of this project is a work-in-progress term derived from the notion of concrete as ‘existing in reality or in actual experience’ and ‘capable of being perceived by the senses’ and the abbreviation ‘geometries’ acting as a surrogate for architectural form or figure. Concrete Geometries is interested in the particular and immediate, and with actual use or practice. It shares concepts with Concrete Science (such as the focus on concrete things instead of abstract laws), Concrete Poetry (with its emphasis on the visual form of things as producing meaning), Concrete Music (the idea of ‘live’ material) and Concrete Art (in particular its rejection of representation)

Details in architectural rendering

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Architectural Rendering Illustrated; A Best Collections Of Modern Exterior

p.152;ill;30 cm

Panel discussion: Critique of the new

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To really appreciate architecture

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